Ping Pong is not the best of all sports

Thanks goes to my opponent for his quick response. Unfortunately, he violated debate rules by posting rebuttals in round 2. Still, the debate must continue! So onto my rebuttals. 1. Ping Pong may burn 400-600 calories per hour. However, track burns more. Distance runner Matt Tegenkamp weighs 145 lbs and has a PR of 27:28.22 in the 10,000 meters race [1]. Entering that into a calorie calculator [2] (you'll most likely have to enter it yourself) you can see that in just under half the time it takes to burn, at most, 600 calories playing ping pong, Matt would burn 681 calories. If you divide ping pong's calorie burning in half to represent the time Matt took to burn those calories, 300 calories (max) would be burnt. Therefore he burns more than twice as many calories running than he would playing ping pong. Keep in mind that he is a thin distance runner, and the more weight one has, the more calories they will burn by running. Meanwhile, Ashton Eaton, decathlete, weighs 185 lbs [3]. If he were to practice hurdling for an hour of his training regimen, he would burn about 756 calories [4]. Thus, T&F is more physically vigorous. 2. Sprints in T&F are ALL about reaction time. Reaction time may be the difference between a World Record and a silver medal in the 100 m dash. In the 1991 World Championships, Leroy Burrell set a world record of 9.85 seconds in the 100m dash, defeating reigning world champ Carl Lewis. Burrell reacted to the gun in 117 milliseconds, while it took Lewis 166 mSec. Although Lewis ran the rest of the race at a faster pace (9.764 to Burrell's 9.784), Burrell still won the race and set a WR due to his reaction time [5]. There are also many different running styles [6]. It can take much skill and effort to adjust your individual running style to become fast [7]. There are also different ways to throw [8] and jump [9] that provide strategic advantages. Many distance races force runners to adapt to the pace and aggressiveness of their opponents, and many different race strategies can be employed in order to win [10]. Things like drafting off of your opponent also come into play. As you can see, track and field is more than just running in a circle. Both sports require mental strategizing, but, once again, T&F offers a plethora of skills to master and difficult races or events to strategize for. I stand by my assertion, T&F takes more net skill. 3. The Old People argument has already been rebutted, as track even has its own organization for older runners. Just like ping pong, they may not be as good, but can still participate. This point is therefore moot. Track remains more physically challenging, and therefore more adheres to the definition of a sport. The cats in the video above are not playing ping pong or even able to hold a paddle. Most just followed the ball, as they saw it as a possible predator. Meanwhile, animals attempt to see which is faster all the time, in a rudimentary version of T&F. Predators chase their prey, and the faster one, just like in track, wins. Many of the topics discussed about the cheetah in the video above (such as its fast twitch muscle fibers) are honed in their human versions in training for track and field. The cheetah won the race, and received its prize, as seen above. http://www.youtube.com... Furthermore, track actually is more available, as most public schools do not have table tennis teams, and table tennis equipment is rather expensive [11]. Table tennis is therefore limiting to underprivileged children. They could, however, join their school's track team, or run on the track of a public school. 4. As I said before, both are competitive.Track, however, requires harder work. Whether the athletes actually work harder is untestable. 5. T&F also has organizations all over the world. USA [12] Asia [13] Africa [14] Australia [15] Europe [16] REBUTTALS 1. My opponent claims that because ping pong is physically easier, it is a better sport. This, in essence, means he has conceded to my third point above. It is very possible to injure oneself playing ping pong [17], however I have proven his point about the elderly to be false, his only proposed benefit for table tennis being better because it is easier. However, i have proposed an unrefuted point that the difficulty of track making it more of a sport than ping pong. Therefore, this argument fails, while he has conceded a point. 2. Actually, False. While my opponent's estimate for the average professional track athlete is correct, this is almost the only non-skewed figure in this entire argument. The estimate for average ping pong player's salaries is actually listed in his source as "average earnings for players of spectator sports" and does not include only ping pong. Furthermore, my opponent states that ping pong's highest paid player gets $645,000. He fails to acknowledge that top track runner Usain Bolt makes a whopping $20 million a year [18]. In addition, the money paid to athletes is a rather weak argument for how good a sport is. Conclusion My opponent fails to refute my arguments (and in one case concedes), ignores a good chunk of them, and offers weak contentions of his own. T&F is obviously the superior sport, and my position is upheld. Vote pro. Thanks, and Good Luck. [1]"http://www.usatf.org... [2]http://www.runnersworld.com... [3]http://www.usatf.org... [4]http://calorielab.com... [5]http://condellpark.com... [6]http://www.humankinetics.com... [7]http://www.runnersworld.com... [8]http://digitaltrackandfield.com... [9]http://www.indiana.edu... [10]http://www.active.com... [11]http://www.walmart.com... [12]http://www.usatf.org... [13]http://athleticsasia.org... [14]http://www.africanathletics.org... [15]http://www.athletics.com.au... [16]http://www.european-athletics.org... [17]http://tabletennis.about.com... [18]http://www.forbes.com...