Yeah, I guess I was mistaken when I wrote “this is an easy sport played by bad athletes who are just out running around having fun.” :rolleyes:
Keep up with the group.
I was watching an A&E special on the ancient games, and they mentioned that if a runner jumped the gun on the race, he was disqualified, then publicly beaten and humiliated.
And I’m glad Trunk has retracted his pitting, because beach volleyball is hot.
Well, then, what the fuck is your complaint about?
The notion that we can just take any old Olympic sport, play it on sand between two people, and think that all of a sudden we have a new sport.
The fact that it is traditionally played in the sand doesn’t change that. We have a lot of sports that were done a traditional way that we don’t do in the olympics.
Forgive me for still not getting it. Is it the sand you object to? Would it be better if they played it on concrete?
oh, jeez - you really are a twit, aren’t you? :smack:
just let it go, okay?
(and no, trying to 'splain it further will do no good…)
Probably good advice. I’m clearly not equal to the intellectual pressures of this thread.
Nah - that ain’t it - I assumed you were up to the intellectual pressures, but that constantly-ringing phone you mention in the other Pit thread you started was starting to get to your sense of humor…it would’ve gotten to mine. 
Guess what, genius–they didn’t invent Beach Volleyball for the Olympics. It’s been a real sport with real championships and real circuits and real financial support (from endorsements to prize money) for quite a while. The only way you can make a sport an Olympic one is to already be well-established in the international athletic community. This wasn’t some crazy drinking whim in the IOC.
By your logic, we shouldn’t have the 200m race (T&F). Hey, it wasn’t in the original Olympics (1896), and it’s just running twice as long as the 100m and half as long as the 400m! Why bother? It’s just an excuse to give more unworthy athletes a shot at a medal (and to show off their legs, while they’re at it).
And what’s up with the Pentathalon? Heck, I’ll just put together any 6 random sports and call it the Hexathalon! It’s the same exact thing, sorta!
And weight-lifting and wrestling originally didn’t have different categories by competitors’ size! And swimming didn’t originally have relays! It’s just more excuses to make up new events that aren’t that much different than already existing events!
Your OP is idiotic because there is no burgeoning Beach Basketball community, or Beach Handball, or Beach Soccer. There are no titles, no scholarships, no coaches. But that’s not true with Beach Volleyball.
I guess I’m having a hard time seeing that Olympic spirit you claim you have, but that may be because it’s stuck too deeply up your ass. :rolleyes: Jerk.
Ya know… Come to think of it, the two events did coincide.
I wonder if bludgeoning clueless cube dwellers with their own phones can become an Olympic sport.
…only if you do it (wait for it…) in the SAND!!! 
Oh, it is? I didn’t notice.
I guess that I’ll have to tell the Committee To Get Beach Handball Officially Recognized By The IOC that they can all go home now.
Yeah, I’m the one with something stuck my up ass. . .
Of all the sports to complain about this is way down on the list.
Pairs, synchronized diving? Seriously.
See, it is a sport! My cardio-vascular system is getting a workout just looking at that picture! 
Trunk, I’m totally with you. That shit is asinine. And what’s with the random bursts of really crappy distorted pop music? What the hell WAS that? I like seeing scantily-clad women as much as the next guy, but y’know what? - that’s why they have strip clubs. Or HBO, for that matter. Besides, I like to see cute women, not leathery skanks with pancake tits. Nothing against the athletes, because they’re athletes - it’s not a beauty contest. But c’mon - even the fencing women were cuter than that.
Alright we win, I actually agree with Blowero about something.
Beach volleyball strategies and skills are different than standard volleyball. An excellent player in volleyball isn’t necessarily an excellent player in beach volleyball and vice versa.
Trunk’s argument is based on his perception that these two similar sports are different variations of the same thing. That’s way to simplified. Unlike tennis/doubles tennis this isn’t the same sport with more/less players. Playing on the sand court requires different skills, strategies and physical abilities.
As far as the T&A on the court, that’s another subject. Since the scoring is objective instead of judged the apparel of the participants doesn’t affect the outcome of the game. (A judge can’t give or take away points via a bias over an outfit).
I agree too. If I want soft-core porn, I HAVE the internet, thanks. I guess beach volleyball mildly irritates me because it’s just such obvious pandering. I realize the days of the Olympics being all about the athletic prowess and the spirit of competition and whatnot are long gone, but it just feels like a bunch of executive types sat around and tried to think of something to appeal to the Al Bundy types out there, and came up with beach volleyball.
Which is why I limited my lustful statement to “a few.” There a couple of them who are in their 20s, and stone-gorgeous!