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28 Aug 2004, 06:54 (Ref:1079746)
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Auto Racing in the Olympics?
Yeah I know this is off-topic, but with the Olympics going on I have wondered wether auto racing racing should be an olympic sport.
Keep in mind that there are events like cycling and bobsledding that uses machinery, and equestrian events are more of a skill than a physical sport. What do you all think? :confused: 
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28 Aug 2004, 07:13 (Ref:1079752)
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There's been a discussion of this in the ten-tenths Trackside forum:
http://tentenths.com/forum/showthrea...threadid=58287 |
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28 Aug 2004, 16:22 (Ref:1079992)
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Champ Cars is too good for the Olympics, those steriod freaks!
 
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30 Aug 2004, 04:30 (Ref:1081165)
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My post, from Aug 14, in Parc Ferme...
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30 Aug 2004, 04:34 (Ref:1081167)
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Even better...
Have your national driver race a car, a bike, a boat and a dragster. |
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30 Aug 2004, 07:31 (Ref:1081234)
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The only current class with half a chance of making it would be Formula 3. That would have to be the only really international formula.
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30 Aug 2004, 21:50 (Ref:1081917)
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There was an article the other day on grandprix.com discussing this very thing.
http://www.grandprix.com/ns/ns13401.html |
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30 Aug 2004, 22:01 (Ref:1081924)
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Motorsport have once been part of the Olympics, but it was Water Motorsports in 1908 (I think).
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31 Aug 2004, 00:29 (Ref:1081995)
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As much as I like motorsport I have to say that motors have no place in the Olympics IMO.
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31 Aug 2004, 00:35 (Ref:1082001)
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This idea was proposed in the 1960s by Mike Cook, then PR manager of Triumph (pre-Leyland) in the US. The idea was mostly a PR stunt, and went nowhere then either.
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31 Aug 2004, 00:40 (Ref:1082004)
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31 Aug 2004, 00:49 (Ref:1082005)
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track and field only? Go watch the World Championships then thats how much you would devalue it...
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31 Aug 2004, 01:13 (Ref:1082013)
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First past the post wins in my book, not some fella who got 9.7 from the Russian judge. |
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31 Aug 2004, 08:18 (Ref:1082349)
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Swimming, Gymnastics, Shooting and Cycling have all been in since the start as well.
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31 Aug 2004, 09:34 (Ref:1082410)
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31 Aug 2004, 17:18 (Ref:1082900)
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I think shooting includes archery in this instance.
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