A lot of people are just posting sports they don't like. I'm with the group who say that an Olympic gold should be the pinnacle for the athlete. I don't really see why tennis or golf should be Olympic sports.
"Sports" that shouldn't be olympic sports.
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MonkeyLove
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Is it really any different to some of the skiing events or even things like the luge.
All use a piece of equipment for skating/sliding
That horse is probably worth 10 million
woodlebert
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Skateboarding is a sport
A very, very skilled sport too. Great to see it in the Olympics.
woodlebert
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Superb. Wonderful to watch the lad win gold in his home town
Not saying for a moment that it shouldn't be in there of course, but swimming has far too many medals available when you see how often it's the same swimmers grabbing them. Athletics develops clear specialisms with sometimes someone excelling in 100/200 or 5K/10K, but that's it. Swimming has every possible variation of distance, stroke, mix of strokes etc, and it is quite common for people to be competing in them across the board almost - overkill IMO; maybe OK the rest of the time to pad events out, but at Olympic level it should be a bit less. Otherwise why shouldn't for example judo have 1 minute, 3minute, 5 minute, 10 minute bouts and similar for other sports.
Turning to athletics, high jump should be relative to height, simple as. Oh and equestrian events, again, not knocking them, but Olympic medals, not IMO, especially as why is horse racing not in then?
Turning to athletics, high jump should be relative to height, simple as. Oh and equestrian events, again, not knocking them, but Olympic medals, not IMO, especially as why is horse racing not in then?
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Jon Dough
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Darlo1973
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Simple answer is that they are popular with sponsors and broadcasters.
With golf, they had a great opportunity to make it stand out differently in the Olympics, rather than yet another bog standard 72 hole individual stroke play event. They could have either made it a pairs event or better still, a mixed pairs event and made it stand out from the rest of the events on the golfing calendar.
As it is, it's rather unremarkable by anyone's standards, especially coming so soon after the biggest golf event of the year, The Open.
bobster999
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JAZZMANB
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Just means some sports attract a lot of money
PTR
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In fairness, why does netball still exist?
Always seemed like just basketball for girls, which just isn't needed in this day and age
bobster999
Winger
The walking marathon definitely shouldn't be there. It seems really old fashioned and an event of an Olympic era that's long gone.
SpiritofBurnden
Winger
Falling off a skateboard shouldn't be an Olympic event either.
kingmonkey
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Another vote for mincing ponies.
It's not even close to being a sport and probably only 0.003% of the world population will have an opportunity to take part.
It's not even close to being a sport and probably only 0.003% of the world population will have an opportunity to take part.
Darlo1973
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Staying on the skateboard is the sport iirc.
I’m in my 70s and have never been on a skateboard and accidentally started watching the skateboarding the other night. I was fascinated by all the terminology and at first a bit unimpressed because they made it look so easy but the more I watched the clearer it became that it took a lot of hard work and skill to get that good and make it look effortless. No way am I ever getting on a skateboard but I will watch the other competitions if I see them. If gymnastics is a sport then I don’t see why skateboarding shouldn’t be.
