While soaring is a sport, and it is competitive, I have a real hard time
viewing the participants as athletes. If you can sit in a lounge chair
for hours on end, playing Nintendo with a joystick, you've got the
athletic stamina and dexterity to be a gold medal soaring pilot.
I don't think you will get a single serious racing pilot in the world to agree
with this assessment.
Curt Lewis - 95 USA
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