The Olympic Sport of Debate

[Love365]

Many Colleges and Universities have Debate teams.

Should Debate be an Olympic sport?

 

[d taylor]

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Is chess

 

[friend of]

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Is chess

Chess olympics

 

[friend of]

Many Colleges and Universities have Debate teams.

Should Debate be an Olympic sport?

Debating is too intangible to be an Olympic sport imo.

 

[d taylor]

Chess olympics

That really does not answer the question, as is this event Chess olympics part of The Olympics or is this something chess people put on separate from the Olympics

 

[friend of]

That really does not answer the question, as is this event Chess olympics part of The Olympics or is this something chess people put on separate from the Olympics

Chess already has Olympics anyway, it just isn't called Olympics

 

[d taylor]

Chess already has Olympics anyway, it just isn't called Olympics

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But that was not the point of my asking. I asked because chess is more closely related to a sport than debate. So if chess is not an Olympic event, then there is no reason to think debate should be an Olympic event

 

[Love365]

The United States, Russia, and China are the three major powers.

They are trying to lock Russia out of the Olympics.

This is proof that Debate is needed.

 

[Gene2memE]

The United States, Russia, and China are the three major powers.

They are trying to lock Russia out of the Olympics.

This is proof that Debate is needed.

Maybe Russia shouldn't have engaged in a state-run athlete doping programme, that appears to have been approved at the ministerial level (if not higher).

Maybe Russia shouldn't have bribed officials to look the other way to positive drug tests.

Maybe Russia shouldn't keep invading and stealing parts of its neigbouring soverign nations.

 

[Love365]

In more than 100 years,
why was Russia never picked to host the World’s Fair?

 

[Gene2memE]

Because of that thing Yuri did in the back alley at the 1900 Paris Exposition. You know what I'm talking about.

 

[Love365]

Because of that thing Yuri did in the back alley at the 1900 Paris Exposition. You know what I'm talking about.

Can’t find any record of anything.

Must be some kind of joke.

 

[Love365]

If a country has the death penalty,
you don’t ban them from the Olympics.

You would debate them until they want to abolish the death penalty.

 

[Love365]

University debate teams are judged on style, content, and strategy.

 

[Love365]

What is your favorite Olympic sport?

 

[Bob Crowley]

Chess olympics

You could have 100 metre sprint chess with the winners playing the fastest game. Sweeping the pieces off the board not allowed.

Marathon chess for the longest game, with a mobile board in case they haven't finished in time for the closing ceremony.

Polo chess with equestrians moving the pieces with polo sticks.

Steeplechase chess with little hurdles all over the board.

Drug testing for spectators whose eyes look glazed after the last move took two hours.

Political chess with the pieces designed to look like heads of state.

The possibilities are endless.