Which do you consider a professional athlete?

[Luke]

Some would say NASCAR drivers are not athletes since thier sport does not involve a "ball". However it seems that drivers and pit crews devote much time to physcial training.

[Mastashake]

Originally Posted by Groves

That guy is fake. His name is Greg Valentino, and all he did is inject a type of oil they created called Synthol, which your body has no ability to get rid of. It stores underneath your muscles and builds up. After repeated doses your body looks like this, like there is a snake slithering around inside each of your arms.

Here's a better photo of a bodybuilder. His muscles, although only achieved with insane levels of steroids, are real.

[BWillie]

Originally Posted by Mastashake

That guy is fake. His name is Greg Valentino, and all he did is inject a type of oil they created called Synthol, which your body has no ability to get rid of. It stores underneath your muscles and builds up. After repeated doses your body looks like this, like there is a snake slithering around inside each of your arms.

Here's a better photo of a bodybuilder. His muscles, although only achieved with insane levels of steroids, are real.

It's kind funny people give all these baseball players flack for doing a few cycles here and there, but pro bodybuilders take it to a whole new level. A lifestyle of roids. And nobody cares.

[Mastashake]

Originally Posted by BWillie007

It's kind funny people give all these baseball players flack for doing a few cycles here and there, but pro bodybuilders take it to a whole new level. A lifestyle of roids. And nobody cares.

I know. You can even see the striations on his pecs from a complete and total lack of body fat (amphetamines). Its amazing to see, even though its fake. I don't like it, nor would I do it, but when I see a photo of this I am just amazed a person can get to be that large, even with hormones. It just seems impossible.

Yeah. I think its either everyone should be doing them, or no one should. Its the uniformity people desire.

And since there's such tradition in sports of there being no drugs, they want to keep it that way. But who's to say Babe didn't do drugs? Its possible for him to have taken some sort of "energy elixir" which contained amphetamine. And you don't think some of those baseball players in the 70s weren't coked out of their heads?

We just want to turn our heads to it. We're fine with them doing drugs as long as we don't know about it; in fact we enjoy it cause it gives us great things like hitting streaks and home run records. But as soon as we know, we get upset.

[KC Jones]

re: OP

Sure, call them athletes if you want but none of those things are sports in my opinion.

Sport:

1. objective score from "goals" - none of this judging crap like gymnastics or diving
2. has an offense and defense on the field at the same time

Bowling, swimming, car racing are all highly entertaining activities I'm sure - but a true sport they do not make. This is strictly my opinion.

[kepp]

I can't believe more people are voting for pro golfers than for NASCAR. I'm not really a NASCAR fan, but those drivers undergo intense physical strain.

[Braincase]

Golf - absolutely. The things that make a golfer competitive are the same qualities we admire in other sports. Power, finesse, accuracy, hand-eye coordination. Golfers never play the same shot twice, and they have to compete on a radically different course each week.

Bowling - yes. The power, finesse, and accuracy argument applies here.

NASCAR - maybe. I primarily look at race car drivers as competitive stuntmen. Now, if you want to talk about motocross, there's more of an argument due to the way the body has to control the vehicle. In a car, a driver doesn't use his body mass to control the vehicle.

[Demonpenz]

I am not one to say bowlers are Usan bolt or anything, but they bowl 50 games or so in a short span making adjustments all the way though for various things.

[HemiEd]

Poll is flawed, where is the "all of the above" option?

[Bweb]

I would consider Nascar, golf, and bowling all athletic sports. I believe they all take some type of athletic ability and the competitive outcome is determined by the participants.

I do not consider any activity with a "Judge" to be a "sport". Examples being figure skating, diving, cheerleading nationals, etc. All determined by some "judge" which I think is BS.

[PunkinDrublic]

Bowling is as much a game as golf. Only difference is golf is filled with elitist, self important douchebags and bowling is a blue collar activity
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[Fish]

Yeah bitches...............

[Pants]

Has anybody ever raced here before? I don't think people realize what kind of shape you have to be in to be able to drive a race car effectively.

I pretty much guarantee 90% of posters here wouldn't be able to go 10 laps in any kind of serious race because their arms, necks and backs would start giving in.