good red herring with Hobbes

Great work.

Shot yourself in the foot, as you state shot putt not throw!

Some sneaky tricky ones in there!

"...as you state shot putt not throw!"

Shot Put is a throwing discipline. As World Athletics, the governing body, puts it in the very first sentence of their description of Shot Put; "One of the four traditional throws events..." That the sport has it's own vocabulary doesn't change that it is all about throwing something.