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ballot no 137678

yes or no : sports : DO YOU CONSIDER CHEERLEADING TO BE A SPORT?

[+] ballot by Mr_Spleen

The English word "sport" is commonly defined as "an active diversion requiring physical exertion and competition." Yet it seems most people would classify cheerleading as something more or less like "an extra-curricular activity." Though it seems to me that it would take quite a bit of physical exertion to throw one of your peers several feet into the air or form a human pyramid comprising of 6 or more people. - More than I could put in anyway. - And then there are too many "national" cheerleading 'competitions' in the United States to list. What say you? Do you consider cheerleading to be a sport? Two statistics to consider are:

• 93 Catastrophic (serious injury resulting in severe permanent disability or death) cheerleading related incidents took place between 1982 and 2007 in the United States alone (67 of those in high schools, and 26 in colleges)

• 22,900 children were admitted to emergency rooms in the United States for cheerleading related injuries in 2002 — more than twice as many as in 1990

*Statistics provided from the Washington Post

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Submitted on : Jun 21,2010 11:21:42 pm