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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]It's nice that unathletic wealthy people still have a way to compete in the olympics [/quote]

It’s definitely more about precision and skill than raw athletic ability, but I think “unathletic” would be a stretch. Sometimes you have kind of extraordinary things like nick skelton in 2012 was clearly not at his physical peak
but made up for it with talent and experience.

There are other Olympic sports like that though. Some lean more towards athletic feats and some towards skillful performance, no? [/quote]

What other sport has purchasing housing and transporting a 750k horse as the initial barrier to entry? [/quote]

Those horses cost way more than $750k! I mean maybe they did at some point. You can bet your butt that Karl Cook paid way, way more for that amazing mare.

Also that’s not initial barrier to entry, that’s more like ticket to the top, or at least ticket to the middle.

It’s obviously unlike any other Olympic sport, but idk why that’s such a hang up for you.

The closest sport maybe is F1?

It would be fine if it wasn’t in the Olympics. It has the WEG and a bunch of other top moments. The point is just that since it is in the Olympics, it’s good if it goes well, and this one is going great. [/quote]

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