the TT. Absolutely the TT.I can't think of another annual sporting event with a death toll above 250.http://youtu.be/v0pLZyLXJKg?hd=1&t=3m3s
Sport is an activity concept involving rules, like football, sailing, chess, curling, even virtual dogfighting for fun. A game is an event with a winner and a loser of a sport. At least that's how I think of them. Note the International Olympic Committe recognizes chess and curling as sports, neither of which require significant physical activity. Although the tension of a game of either might make you sweat.
Awesome video!
You have obviously never swept a curling rock that your skip threw way light and needs to make the 4 ft.
I've participated and done fairly well in alot of sports, including motorsports. Raced cars on road. Raced motorcycles off and on road. The one sport that used everything all the time was motorcycle roadracing. Compared to automobile racing it was 10 times as hard. The difference in the 2 being on a bike, you aren't strapped in to a seat, holding you in place so you can control the vehicle. You are hanging on to the bars, turning the bike, right hand doing the gas and the front brake. Left hand hanging on turning and doing the clutch. One foot on the pegs and shifting, the other rear brakes. You don't really sit down, you squeeze with your knees, transitioning from one side of the bike to the other as you hang off around corners. Even the movement of your head changes things, sometimes it seems just moving your eyeballs effects the bike in a turn. One mistake and your down, no cage to protect you. The likelyhood of you sliding and then coming out of it wheels spinning throwing dirt up behind you as you re-enter the track, slim to none.One of the greatest roadracers of our time, Valentino Rossi from Italy, tested with Ferrari in a Formula 1 car and had lap times that would have qualified him to enter a race with them. He did it to get a taste of what he might like to try in the future. I do not recall the reverse ever happening, re: A Formula 1 champion hopping on a bike and riding it fast enough to qualify.Just my .02 !
Zoney, Shumie did some bike racing when he first retired from F1,while it wasnt motogp it was very close and ya he qualified quite well and did ok for an old dude! Having done both off road and some track time I think off road riding is slightly tougher. I still stand by my statement that boxing is 1 of the hardest sports to be good or skilled at. Lacrossse is tough too but takes a bckseat to Irish Hurling!!! those guys are insane!!!
Boat racing is also extremely dangerous. Just ask any of the dead guys who've tried to set a new speed record.
