How about the one where girls (maybe boys too but I've never seen them) prance about a square mat with a long ribbon that they wave about? I love watching it - related to gymnastics but I don't know what it is called.
Now seriously, out of the following: Synchronised Swimming, Water Polo, Badminton, Baseball, Basketball, Equestrian, Fencing, Field Hockey, Football, Handball, Sailing, Shooting, Softball, Table Tennis (!!!!), Tennis, Tae Kwon Do or Volleyball; Can anyone honestly say that they should be considered an Olympic Sport ? I mean, you may as well have Snooker or Darts....or Knitting !!!
I don't know. I would watch and play alot of them!
One other thing that annoys me apart from the ridiculous sports is the presence of big time professional sports like tennis where the players involved would gladly swap a win in this olympics for one in a grand slam event. Players in these sports don't get judged on the amount of olympic medals they win so why are they there. Roger Federer had to leave the olympic village because the other athletes were treating him like such a celebrity.
Most pointless sport in Olympic Games has to be Curling (OK OK, it's a winter event but still).
This is a winter sport as well but what do you call that thing with the puck on the ice and the other guys go along and sweep the ice to move it along - Now that is one ridiculous sport!!
Loldo You Think The American Nba Basketball Stars Who Are In China For The Olympics Will Get A Chance To Meet The 6 Year Olds Who Make Their Shoes?
Anything where judges award points for style is not a sport.
It may be difficult, it may be a physical activity, but its not a sport unless the winner can be determined by something measurable like length, height, time, goals, score, duration etc. Things like ice dancing, diving etc. are art forms, not sports.
One which is particularly ludicrious is ski jumping. You would think that this would be like the long jump - whoever jumps the longest distance wins. But no, they have judges who give style marks and so the longest jumper doesnt win. Whats the point?
What about boxing? I cant understand why they are allowed to divide it into weights. Surely there should be just 1 boxing medal and anyone of any weight can enter?
As for the "there needs to be weights because the smaller boxers would get killed by the heavy weights...." argument made by the boxing fraternity. If we extended this strange logic to all sports, then we'd have high jump & basketball medals for various categories of small people who cant jump as high as tall people etc. Or what about 100m sprint for slow people
As far as I can see, this is just a racket to get more medals.
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