This sport, as we well know, is made up of athletes... who go to the edge and sometimes beyond, and it is why we believe... the next three days is going to be extremely competitive and exciting.
n. [ Cf. F. excitabilité. ] 1. The quality of being readily excited; proneness to be affected by exciting causes. [ 1913 Webster ]
2. (Physiol.) The property manifested by living organisms, and the elements and tissues of which they are constituted, of responding to the action of stimulants; irritability; as, nervous excitability. [ 1913 Webster ]