OK, I give up.
There are many sports or activities the nature of which is beyond me completely (Judo being one of them). Another is cycling - road races in particular. Having managed somehow to have missed the Ladies Volleyball (the BBC are spending alot of time on other sports, for some obscure reason), I figured a bit of the cycling might make sense. Wrong again, XB !
"It's a race", I thought, defined as a competition to see who can go from point A to point B faster that any other competitor.
Then there's a Team event; take the Archery, for example. A competition where the collective scores of individual team members is added up and the team with the most at the end, wins the competition. Alternatively, where a Team does something collective; such as Football of Volleyball, and the Team having the highest score - wins.
So while I watch the cycling listening to the commentator muttering about how 'a team' may do this or that (something I could not see, let alone understand), and I'm thinking "did I miss something about the definition of a "race" I have missed ? (and naturally, there was the bit about 'the sprint' which in a race is, I thought, left to the individual concerned).
So, if there's anyone in the Goat who can point me in a direction to understand this Gallic nonsense, or simply explain it to me, I'd be very pleased.
DT_Xtremez_42:
There are many sports or activities the nature of which is beyond me completely (Judo being one of them). Another is cycling - road races in particular. Having managed somehow to have missed the Ladies Volleyball (the BBC are spending alot of time on other sports, for some obscure reason), I figured a bit of the cycling might make sense. Wrong again, XB !
"It's a race", I thought, defined as a competition to see who can go from point A to point B faster that any other competitor.
Then there's a Team event; take the Archery, for example. A competition where the collective scores of individual team members is added up and the team with the most at the end, wins the competition. Alternatively, where a Team does something collective; such as Football of Volleyball, and the Team having the highest score - wins.
So while I watch the cycling listening to the commentator muttering about how 'a team' may do this or that (something I could not see, let alone understand), and I'm thinking "did I miss something about the definition of a "race" I have missed ? (and naturally, there was the bit about 'the sprint' which in a race is, I thought, left to the individual concerned).
So, if there's anyone in the Goat who can point me in a direction to understand this Gallic nonsense, or simply explain it to me, I'd be very pleased.
DT_Xtremez_42: