Quote Originally Posted by Franky View Post
Is a great taxi driver, who knows the city without GPS, also an athlete? I'm with John on this one. Pushing pedals and turning a wheel don't make anyone an athlete, even if they spend rest of their time training.

Also there's professional athletes and athletes.
Thanks Franky.....I seem to be having trouble making clear my question is a 2 part question IF this....then what is that?

If rally drivers are "athletes" then, what to call runners who run 1500m or sprint 100m, hurdlers, polevaulters, Tour de France or Giro D'Italia bicycle racers...

(And frankly I don't think anything of F1 or Formula Whatever drivers..From more than 50 years avoiding watching it it seems they and their fans are like an army of NOTs, and if one NOT is as annoying and lame as we all are familiar with what is thousands of them like? Zombie invasion! Go for head shots only!)

My metaphor to the Merikuhn rich fools wasting money while calling themselves "Professional Wawwy wacers" (try and think of the great cinematic charchter Elmer Fudd) that the pooofing up dilutes the reality...
Saying "this guy here Häkki Hälarna is the best rally driver in the world" ought to be enough.....without making them to be "atletes" or what next? Saints?
They aren't..

Except St. Jeanno of course...
And here's proof so who can argue?