Sports

Use the word “extreme” properly, please
by Barbora Misakova

Is it only my opinion or did it notice also someone else, that extreme sports are mentioned so often these days? Few years ago when someone mentioned some kind of extreme sport such as bungee jumping or snowboarding he was some kind of hero. Because at that time extreme sports were really extreme and only few individuals were able to try it. These days a word “extreme” has no meaning at all – no stress, no high blood pressure, no heart beating. Nothing. It seems to me like every kind of sport was called extreme sport. Like just a fact that a kid is riding a bike somewhere in the forest makes it an extreme matter. Just like the fact that some 11-year-old boy was trying archery made him an extreme sportsman. I know it is good when kids are doing some sport, it is good for their health and so on, but call it an extreme sport is a bit unreasonable. Just because two high schools are doing some competition where the kids are taking part in wall climbing, archery, mountain biking and three wheeled go-carts doesn't make from these event a competition in extreme sports, does it? First of all – which kind of school would take such a responsibility on its shoulders for kids trying doing some kind of extreme sport? I would bet that no one – this is the first reason why the word “extreme” is wrongly used. The second reason is that wall climbing can do also a 6-year-old kid, so some high school students shouldn't have problems with it neither. And mountain climbing – if you think these kids are driving their bikes on high and abrupt rocks then you are wrong. They just take out their bikes for a slow walk through little forest hills. I don't want it to sound as disregard, not at all. I just want people to use the word “extreme sports” in cases when it is needed and truthful.

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