Sports that shouldn't be in the Olympics

[Fnaar]

The white water kayaking looks great, as does the table tennis.
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Funny Daily Mash article
http://www.thedailymash.co.uk/sport...all-table-tennis-players-admit-20160805111898

 

[raleighnut]

I'd like to know where the 3 legged, egg 'n' spoon and the sack races have gone, all those events we used to train our kids for.

 

[Andy_R]

I'd like to know where the 3 legged, egg 'n' spoon and the sack races have gone, all those events we used to train our kids for.

Don't forget there's a whole generation out there who had their teeth re-arranged during wheelbarrow races....

 

[HertzvanRental]

5 pages in and no mention of the slow-bicycle race!
On a cycle forum!

 

[Mad Doug Biker]

Yawn, not this old chestnut again!

 

[nickyboy]

There's something rather odd about the objection to sports that involve 'judging' or 'interpretation'... something a bit stale, male and lacking in empathy and openness.

I have very mixed feelings about the Olympics in general. I always love watching them, but I'm also aware of the damage that the way they have been going does to economies and places. They are very rarely beneficial to the people and places that host them in retrospect.

Don't think there's anything odd or lacking in empathy etc. The issues with judged sports for me are twofold:

First is the obvious one of the danger of lack of objectivity in the judging or that a judge simply misses something.

I do get the feeling that subjective Olympic sports are encouraged as they often produce the best images and help in the selling of TV rights. Look at the Winter Olympics...snowboard half pipes

 

[classic33]

5 pages in and no mention of the slow-bicycle race!
On a cycle forum!

Isn't that currently around 24 hours with no forward movement?

 

[User169]

I do get the feeling that subjective Olympic sports are encouraged as they often produce the best images and help in the selling of TV rights. Look at the Winter Olympics...snowboard half pipes

Bit of an aside, but in some "X-sport" type events - and snowboarding has a similar culture - the competitors themselves score each other.

 

[lutonloony]

Anything involving a gun or a horse. Even if that's going to make a dent in Team GB's medal haul.

What if they make the targets horses?

 

[mjr]

Anything involving a gun or a horse. Even if that's going to make a dent in Team GB's medal haul.

I misread that as "involving a gun and a horse" and wondered how long butchery had been an olympic event

Just done some Wikipediaing, and it seems Kabbadi was put on as an exhibition game at the Berlin Olympics in 1936 of all unlikely times and places.

There was a documentary on somewhere recently (Yesterday TV, perhaps) making a quite persuasive argument that the Nazi Olympics started the trend for ever-bigger, ever-showier televised games which finally peaked in Beijing, with the IOC doing what it could to encourage the dictatorship in that way.

 

[lutonloony]

How would you score this though?
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Next point of contact is either the right foot where her two hands are, or she pushes off with both arms for the red "rock" at which she is now looking!

If she stays like that for a couple of minutes I believe that's a 10

 

[winjim]

Yawn, not this old chestnut again!

Olympic conkers?

 

[Dayvo]

À la Monty Python: The Olympic Hide and Seek event.


View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q4upY8UWrsU

 

[swansonj]

My only reservation about the wall climbing is that I'm sure some people will only watch for the ones who fall off, although I suppose the length of the scream as the competitor plunged to their death might form part of the marking system. And the posthumous gold medal is awarded to .......

...Nigel Pargetter.

 

[PaulB]

Easier to put what should be IN the summer Olympics; running, swimming, boxing, cycling, chucking stuff, jumping over high things, jumping into sand, hop-skip and jumping into sand, riding bikes, chucking opponents around dressed in white pyjamas...that's about it. NO horses, jumping OFF things into water, pratting around on a mat/with mates in a swimming pool while wearing clothes pegs on the nose, gawf, tennis, guns, hockey, poncing about in boats. I should be the king of the Olympics, me.