Spyke
lemmy.world

How about qualitative and quantitative Olympics?

All the higher, faster, farther sports on one side. All the sports that include style judges on the other.

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evidencesreply
lemmy.world

Yeah that one's tough, are we including any sports where the athletes get wet in the wet Olympics? Throwing steeple chase to the wet Olympics feels wrong.

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CrimeDadreply
lemmy.crimedad.work

Usually dry but I think it actually melts under the pressure of a blade, so events with skates might have to go in the dry wet Olympics.

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PatrickYaareply
lemmy.one

Afaik they just discovered that Ice has a layer of water ("pre-melted ice) at the surface, which is the lubricant that makes ice slippery. So, imo ice is wet ^^

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valkyre09reply
lemmy.world

The phrase “pre-melted” is making me chuckle. If it’s pre-melted, surely it’s frozen? If it’s frozen, isn’t that just ice?

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PatrickYaareply
lemmy.one

Eh, that's what they called it in the article and I'm neither a physicist nor a material scientist. They made a definite distinction between the two forms of the materials in this and other articles related to the topic which I was too topic-uninformed to understand. So you might be right :D

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Beaconreply
fedia.io

I don't see how. Summer games are games that can be played outdoors during the summer season. Winter games are games that can be played outdoors during the winter season.

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CrimeDadreply
lemmy.crimedad.work

Why so many indoor events then? Also, the typical seasons of many of of the "Summer" Olympics events are in the winter.

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Beaconreply
fedia.io

Why so many indoor events then?

They're games that people CAN play outdoors during summer.

Also, the typical seasons of many of of the "Summer" Olympics events are in the winter.

I don't understand this question.

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CrimeDadreply
lemmy.crimedad.work

What I mean is that I consider basketball, for example, to be a winter sport since it is properly played indoors on a wooden court and therefore its season is during the cold months of the year.

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I can't say i agree. But everyone is entitled to their own opinion

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