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Just as you can be athletic without being an athlete; you can be an athlete without being athletic

It's a game where the players use controlled physical motion to hit the ball with a club. The strength and technical control required is where the athleticism comes in.

One month, six days and counting since your last post in the football forum

If you want my really red-hot take, my argument against industrial machinery contests being counted as sport extends to believing that Andy Murray should be ineligible for SPOTY.

They're all competitions where the winner is decided by the athletic quality of the competitors involved, so yes. If the Ryder Cup started letting the US use hydraulic clubs they'd designed at home while Europe were stuck with normal titanium ones, then the US would win almost every time and it...

Because it pays to gain whatever advantage you can, even if it's not the primary factor in who wins the contest. Being physically skilled at something is great, but it doesn't make you an athlete.

For the horses it is, yeah

Unfortunately Buzz Lightyear has a lengthy track record of sharing racist memes on his own social media platform

I didn't say it was just the machinery. The machinery is without question the most important factor though.

It's a competition where the quality of industrial machinery decides who wins. I'm sure it can be fun to watch if you're into that kind of thing, but it's not a sport, it's a science contest.

Yes if only there was some kind of race in the space industry

You need incredible strength, stamina and courage to go into space. It’s still not a sport though.

This isn’t happening in a vacuum though. I don’t think the reaction to the “chest pump” is anything like what it has been without the months and months of Musk saying other bonkers stuff.

Sorry - it’s been 1:45.

Why pretend you don’t care? You’ve been posting about this for hours.

It’s not a sport, but otherwise agree

Ah well that’s ok then I don’t know anyone with the kind of autism that would make them do (what looks like) Nazi salutes in public. But if I did, I would expect either them or their close colleagues to apologise for the misunderstanding afterwards. Especially so if they were some kind of...

And no-one associated with him cares either?

Which is understandable if that’s what transpired. But you’re not surprised by the subsequent lack of contrition for such an obviously inflammatory misunderstanding, either from Musk or from anyone associated with him?

Sure, but an autistic person who’s been handed the keys to the entire American civil service presumably has a greater level of responsibility than your average Joe. Or can he just do whatever he wants because he’s autistic?