He had retired from the volleyball team eight years earlier, then won his beach gold aged 35 - if that's the only case of players who were top in both sports, I'm not sure it's a very convincing one.
I guess I'll just have to live with that then.
I'm sure beach volleyball can be fun to play, but that isn't exactly the criterium for making something an Olympic sport - it's the "fun to watch" criterium that's rather more decisive here, one suspects.
You are very prejudiced
I guess I'll just have to live with that then.
I liked playing both as intermural rec sports my freshman year at UT. *shrug*
I'm sure beach volleyball can be fun to play, but that isn't exactly the criterium for making something an Olympic sport - it's the "fun to watch" criterium that's rather more decisive here, one suspects.
Yeah, the sex object angle makes it an easier ad-sell here, but it is a semi-popular, televised sport here with a professional league, so it does meet the criteria for inclusion in the Olympics (it is higher in visibility and non-elite athlete participation than say synchronized swimming/diving). And if you've ever played beach volleyball and were athletic enough to spike/block in regular volleyball, it quickly quickly apparent that it is damn difficult to jump 10+ feet into the air to do the same, what with all the sand and all.
I am still waiting for beach soccer to become an official Olympic sport, especially since it seems American football is still quite a bit aways from full membership (it is a World Games sport, I've learned).
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What if every sport was photographed like beach volleyball?
- 03/08/2012 04:32:51 PM
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Heh, I saw that earlier.
- 03/08/2012 05:06:11 PM
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Twitter is useful.
- 03/08/2012 05:11:03 PM
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If you are hot and your ass is hanging out people will photograph it
- 03/08/2012 05:13:45 PM
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There are apparently rules about the size of the women's outfits.
- 03/08/2012 06:00:32 PM
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You should develop a more European attitude towards sexuality
- 03/08/2012 06:48:19 PM
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Congratulations. I'm going to award you the gold for missing the point. *NM*
- 04/08/2012 06:28:09 PM
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Beach volleyball is a sport now?
- 03/08/2012 08:41:52 PM
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Karch Kiraly won gold medals in both
- 03/08/2012 11:18:53 PM
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So I see, but looks like the beach one was a second career after his prime.
- 03/08/2012 11:27:33 PM
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It also wasn't an Olympic sport until 1996 
- 04/08/2012 03:58:00 AM
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- 04/08/2012 03:58:00 AM
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try playing two man Volleyball in the sand and see if it is easy *NM*
- 06/08/2012 03:43:03 PM
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Check this wonderful tutorial slideshow on what the hand signals in volleyball mean...
- 05/08/2012 05:28:35 AM
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I know it's wrong, but I really enjoyed the cropped images of men. *NM*
- 06/08/2012 03:13:42 PM
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There is nothing wrong with finding attractive people attractive.
- 06/08/2012 11:53:32 PM
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