Talk:Amateur sports

message: ok so what i really want to know is how many people have really been affected by this rule? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 63.88.161.101 (talk) 15:04, 26 July 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: What rule, specifically, are you referring to? Ecopirate 09:47, 14 March 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Untitled

message: Added a section on Sailing. --Dastal 16:06, 14 November 2005 (UTC)
thread_title:  Sailing 

message: I was kinda wondering why this article had a NPOV tag? I'll remove it in 24 hours, if a response is not had. Ecopirate 09:47, 14 March 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  NPOV? 

message: What about cycling? -193.77.233.8 18:52, 12 April 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: What about it? If you have sourced material on amateur cycling, then feel free to add it. — SMcCandlish   Talk⇒ ʕ(Õلō)ˀ  Contribs. 16:30, 14 January 2010 (UTC)
thread_title: Cycling

message: This article reads rather like an opinion piece reminiscing about the "good old days". I've added  and  as that seemed much better than either deleting the weasel words and unreferenced opinions (which would leave little more than half of the first paragraph as the total article) or liberally scattering  throughout it. Could the people who know about this topic please have a look at improving the article? Thanks. --Scott Davis Talk 10:18, 28 March 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Weasel words and opinions 

message: I believe any sports club that has the term Corinthian in its name denotes the members are amateurs rather than professional. The term Corinthian spirit is used in this article without explanation.  Can anyone explain or verify this? Vegemine 02:33, 7 May 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: I added a sub-section explaining the origins of the word Corinthian to describe amateur athletes. Ricardosoli (talk) 07:13, 14 April 2014 (UTC)
thread_title:  Explain Corinthian 

message: === Rugby Union in Argentina ===
Argentina has remained staunchly committed to its Amateurism status.  The reason for this is because it remains the game of the wealthy elite.  The majority of its International rugby team plays its rugby in France and Italy. --A nonny mouse 16:06, 10 Oct 2005 (UTC)
thread_title:  Rugby union 

message: Argentina has remained staunchly committed to its Amateurism status.  The reason for this is because it remains the game of the wealthy elite.  The majority of its International rugby team plays its rugby in France and Italy. --A nonny mouse 16:06, 10 Oct 2005 (UTC)
thread_title:  Rugby Union in Argentina 

message: Whosoever wrote the section on rugby needs to read "A People's Game: The Official History of Rugby League 1895-1995" by Geoffrey Moorhouse .
The break was nothing like as simple as being paid to play rugby.  Indeed rugby league was staunchly amatuer in the early days with players only being paid broken time payments.  Time spent away from work - earnings foregone by playing league.  Typically, this was the time "unworked" in a shift as players had to leave the coalface early in order to make kick off.  In those days you were only paid for the time actually at the coalface - you travelled through the mine tunnels on your own time.
The northern teams were winning too much for the liking of the rich southern teams.  They fought back the only way they knew how.  The story about the RFU organising the meeting to outlaw broken time payments is just astonishing in itself.
86.134.199.34 22:34, 23 October 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Rugby union bias again 

message: Rugby union was not fully amateur before the Northern Union was founded.  The issue was that substantial expenses could (and were) paid to gentlemen - but not those of the working class.  Thus, those who needed the broken time payments could not afford them.
As stated below, ultimately this became more of an issue of not wanting the working classes making the games competitive (rather than the system of friendly matches) and the amateur ethos, with expenses for gentlemen, was seen as a way of enforcing this.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 81.153.53.224 (talk) 10:37, 4 March 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: Class divide before Northern Union

message: Perhaps I'm alone, but I'm not familiar with this term. Any sources? Duncan1800 (talk) 06:29, 10 February 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: Never heard it before. Tyler John (talk) 01:00, 15 September 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: Shamateurism?

message: "In the United Kingdom sport had always been the preserve of the rich who were the only people who had free time in which to pursue sport, the working classes worked six days a week and sport was forbidden on the sabbath." ... What imbecile wrote this?  This is worse than the sort of rubbish you get in a tabloid newspaper.  I'm no historian, but even I know that for a period in mediaeval England, certain sports were banned in order to allow more time for archery practice (itself a sport), which was compulsory on a Sunday for nearly all males; and so, I assume that other sports were already practised, by all sorts of people, on a Sunday.  Few things annoy me more than people who try to rewrite or re-colour the past to suit their own political standpoints.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 138.37.33.46 (talk) 12:44, 10 June 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Background 

message: Lead needs to be completely rewritten, and any non-sports material needs to move to amateur.  — SMcCandlish   Talk⇒ ʕ(Õلō)ˀ  Contribs. 13:31, 14 January 2010 (UTC)
replies: text: I've done some of this. Needs to be checked for further cleanup needs, section by section. — SMcCandlish   Talk⇒ ʕ(Õلō)ˀ  Contribs. 16:30, 14 January 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Cleanup needed 

message: Why is there no section on amateur racing?  Amateurs compete at the highest level with professional jockeys, sometimes with considerable success (eg Marcus Armitage, Sam Waley-Cohen).
At the same time amateur racing, ie racing open only to amateur jockeys, gives rise to a number of interesting and difficult questions.
90.198.128.21 (talk) 18:58, 4 May 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  amateur racing 

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message: - https://www.vice.com/en/article/gvaqdm/for-love-or-for-money-a-history-of-amateurism-in-the-olympic-games
Also an unknown magazine reference  --Greatder (talk) 09:20, 9 September 2021 (UTC)
thread_title:  Interesting reference to read