[Olympics] Which Sports Are Missing, Which Should Be Eliminated

Beer pong and boat race!

What country do y'all think would take home the gold in a boat race?

 

and we will let the Brits have cricket

 

"And what's up with those bizarre biathlons combining skiing and riflery?...To me it's like combining swimming and strangle-a-guy. Why don't we have that?"

 

In all seriousness, Cricket should be a sport played in the Olympics. It is international to begin with. It has its own world cup every 4 years. about 15 countries already have teams in place.

and now they have made the game shorter with a 20 over match rather than a 50 over match.

cricket would be hella fun to watch in the olympics!!

 

ANY TEAM SPORT should NOT be in the olympics. Yes, that includes soccer, basketball, and baseball. Whenever there is more than ONE person in a podium spot, it's ridiculous. ONE MEDAL per game winner.

Also, you should NOT be able to compete in variations of ONE sport. For example, you can do TRACK & Field high-jump, hurdles, any running, triple jump, discus, javeline, and shot putt. You could NOT do the 100M swimming, the 200M swimming, the 300M swimming, the relay swimming, etc. ONE sport, it's gotta be different. If Carl Lewis won in the 100m sprint, he can compete in the relay AND in the discus. They're all different. Stop me when I lie.

I'm split between RELAY sports, though... I don't know how THAT would work into my concerns.

 

Well if that's the way you want it let's just go back to the way it was originally and have it be one sprinting race with only males in the nude and olive freaking branches as the prize.

Your idea is just as stupid as that one.

 

wow, talk about eye-catcher. that's what running is all about nude... i am sure the TV rating will shoot up.

 

Chariot racing would be badass.

 

Are you assuming that American football is played anywhere else in the world?

 

Canada likes it sorta...

 

Ultimate Frisbee

 

Skiing and riffle shooting has a tradition going back 100 of years from Norwegian soldiers training for the military.

 

The problem is no othere country really plays it other than maybe Canadians.

How about sumo wrestling?

 

You could bring back wrestling in the nude although I doubt anyone wants to see Rulan Gardner naked.



I would like to see the sprint in full armor race brought back.

 

Your post sucks, so I'm going to have to stop you now.

 

any sport which is based upon subjective scores by international judges is a farce.

schronized diving? seriously? even boxing is just a big farce...

I will give gymnastics a free pass, because it pulls in alot of ratings and judging can sometimes add to the drama...


but adding in events? are there not enough already??


whoever suggested team sports be removed, I agree to an extent. sports like soccer already have the world cup...same goes for rugby etc...

countries take these events much more seriously than the olympics, and I think for this reason they should be removed...if nothing else so other, more obscure sports, can receive a greater spotlight...

while basketball has a world championships, I would still argue that the Olympics is held in much greater regard, most likely due to the "Dream Team" aura...

it's give and take, but I would only remove events..not add more

 

I agree with that ^^, which I meant to add earlier but didn't. I hate "judging". If you throw a discus far, and I don't, you win. If you beat me in a race, you win. There's no arguing you did it "better" than me.

When did I lie?

ANY TEAM SPORT should not be in the Olympics.

Individuals win medals. Look at how Phelps won another medal... he had to have "help." How's that fair?

 

I agree that there are just too many categories in one sport, like swimming or shooting. If you are going to categorize different guns you are using, are we going to add AK47 or Rocket Launchers later?

As for swimming, that's just too much for 50m, 100m, 200m, 400m, 4 different styles and mixed and relay. Are we running out of combination yet?

Synchronized diving is the same as so many swimming events, are we going to see 3-some next? Same thing for canoe or all kinds of rowing, too many categories.

I do NOT want to see women weight-lifting. Maybe it's politically incorrect, but I just don't want to see it.

 

too insecure? can't bare to see that you are weaker than Chinese women?

 

there's this light shooting competition.. that's kinda r****ded.