Athletics Australia becomes Australian Athletics in 'bold new' rebrand ( www.abc.net.au )

telllos , 1 month ago

A bit like when swiss air was rebranded into swiss.

some_guy , 1 month ago

Holy shit, this is so new and exciting!

blackluster117 , 1 month ago

God, corporations are so fucking boring.

NOT_RICK_SANCHEZ , 1 month ago

They need to take the rest of the week off to celebrate this courageous move!

AnAmericanPotato , 1 month ago

The article keeps referring to "the sport", but never mentions any particular sport. I don't think I've ever seen "the sport" used to refer to sports in general before. Is this a regional language difference, like how Americans would say "go to the hospital" while Brits would say "go to hospital"?

MHLoppy OP , 1 month ago (edited 1 month ago)

It's referring to athletics - Wikipedia suggests that in North America it's usually called "track and field"?

LimeZest , 1 month ago

Fascinating, the term athletics refers to sports in general in the US. Track and Field is indeed the categorization I am familiar with.

DannyBoy , 1 month ago

The French use "fais du sport", or "doing sport" when referring to exercising.

MyTurtleSwimsUpsideDown , 1 month ago

Interesting. So are footballers and tennis players not considered ‘athletes’?

MHLoppy OP , 1 month ago

They're still called athletes I guess? but for some reason we* nonetheless never (?) use "athletics" to mean "all sports". I'd never really thought about how it's a bit strange until this thread!

* at least here - can't speak definitively for everybody

Th3D3k0y , 1 month ago

at least here - can’t speak definitively for everybody

That doesn't sound very American of you...

MHLoppy OP , 1 month ago

Well I linked to an article from the Australian national broadcaster, so that tracks :P