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these sports take amazing dedication to training; spending untold hours in the gym; working to the point of exhaustion day after day. As I said, many sports, probably not fishing. I know fishing is considered a sport but I don't really know if we can call fishermen athletes. In the old days, golfers weren't necessarily considered to be in great shape but that has totally changed to the point that the golfers have their own personal trainers and the tour even has a big trailer at each event with fitness equipment available. Obviously tennis players are no longer wearing white shirts and ties or long dresses. These people too are tremendous athletes in amazing shape.
• I wanted to mention golfers and tennis players for a specific reason. When the golfer is going to swing the club or the tennis player is going to serve the ball, the audience has to be silent. If they aren't, the noisy offenders will be chastised or even removed. Evidently the golfer or tennis player's concentration is not up to those young teenage girls who are doing gymnastics. And yet, the pro golfer or tennis player is being paid huge sums of money, but the little teenage girls are amateurs. So let's see if I get this right. These young girls perform four different events at huge arenas with thousands of people watching and cheering all the time since all the events are going on at the same time, and yet their concentration is so good they can move, jump forward and backwards, spin, and other unimaginable moves on a four inch wide beam four or five feet off the ground. Now the golfer or tennis player is in danger of what when they make a mistake, hitting a fan? So there is no physical risk to them. But if the gymnast breaks concentration and lands straddling the beam; well lets just say we all cringe in pain just thinking about it.
• So let's recap. Golfer or tennis player breaks concentration because a bird chirps too loud or someone clears their throat and they have to stop, reset and start again. Big deal. A gymnast breaks concentration and maybe they can't have children. So basically golfers and tennis players are a bunch of wusses. Maybe we all need to start cheering golfers and tennis players on until everyone is kicked out. And maybe when the gymnasts are risking major bodily damage, we should be quiet.
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