Sports
In some sports, like in individual time-trials in the Tour de France, an official gives a countdown on the fingers of his hand to a starting driver. At the start, there is a countdown from 5 to 1. The numbers in this system are given with the following system:
- 5
- All fingers including the thumb
- 4
- All fingers excluding the thumb
- 3
- Thumb, index and middle finger
- 2
- Index and middle finger
- 1
- Thumb, but sometimes also the index finger
- "Top"
- All fingers are extended again, but the hand is held horizontal and moved away from the rider. This signals the rider can start.
Read more about this topic: Finger Counting
Famous quotes containing the word sports:
“Guys do not have a genetic blueprint that allows them to understand or love sports.”
—Lesley Visser, U.S. sports reporter and announcer. As quoted in Sports Illustrated, p. 82 (June 17, 1991)
“There be some sports are painful, and their labor
Delight in them sets off. Some kinds of baseness
Are nobly undergone, and most poor matters
Point to rich ends.”
—William Shakespeare (1564–1616)
“Even from their infancy we frame them to the sports of love: their instruction, behaviour, attire, grace, learning and all their words aimeth only at love, respects only affection. Their nurses and their keepers imprint no other thing in them.”
—Michel de Montaigne (1533–1592)