Nobody ever said, "a picture is always worth a thousand words" ! In the case of the behavior of physical objects, though, if you tried to use words to describe

Nobody ever said, "a picture is always worth a thousand words" ! In the case of the behavior of physical objects, though, if you tried to use words to describe complex motions, the reader would probably get lost. (And in this case, you'd lose the 'tension' of watching the race.) For the same reasons, rock videos of people just playing instruments are rare.