The Olympics shouldn't be a collection of things that people can turn in to a competition. Otherwise why not make pinball an Olympic sport? Bass fishing? RC plane racing?
Who will take the gold in Tiddly-Winks? Or Monopoly? Personally, I'm looking forward to competitive sleeping.
Originally Posted by DBond
In my view it should be limited to athletic competitions, and I'd even advocate for the removal of any competition that determines the winner by judging, with perhaps the exception of boxing. If it can't be decided by a score, a distance, a time or this sort of thing than I'd like to see it gone. Judges awarding scores with any and all inherent bias (whatever that may entail) seems a poor way to decide any competition, and it's proven so countless times in the past. Competitions like figure skating, diving and gymnastics are marred by the way the winners are determined. Even ski jumping, which I like, has 'style' points partially used to determine a winner. Why? Who jumped the farthest? That should be the winner. All in my view of course.
The motto for the Olympics needs to be changed. "Faster, higher, stronger" does not apply to the vast majority of events.
My point is that outside of Russia, hardly anyone is going to bother watching a televised chess match. Certainly not enough to satisfy the advertisers who spend millions on ads during the Olympic game airings.
There are plenty of olymic competitions that get barely any coverage, but true, chess is not exactly a crowd magnet. Currently there is the FIDE World Cup ongoing, and the online streams hit like ~20k viewers. Point being, you need a certain level of expertise as viewer to appreciate what's going on, That's obviously not the case for the usual athletic competitions, or swimming etc...
there have been some odd sports in the past Olympic: Rope Climbing. Tug-o'-war. Poetry. Town planning. Barrel Tossing. Pistol Duelling. "Are the silver and bronze winners not mounting the podium sirrah?" "Due to the nature of the sport, they are somewhat indisposed Excellency"
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Originally Posted by DM
They should go full meta and introduce the olympic sport of cheating.
The Russians already have that event cornered!
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I'm on the fence. Would it be judged for style and difficulty, or would we just measure where the little person hit the sandpit?
They would land in sandpits?
Or we could combine it with curling and see how far along the ice they'd slide, with the broomers sweeping a path?
I like vonbaur's Monopoly shout. I live near Atlantic City and have been there countless times. I think that gives me an advantage and I could represent America proudly. I'd be all over Ventnor Avenue you know it.
No, now go away or I shall taunt you a second time!
I'm on the fence. Would it be judged for style and difficulty, or would we just measure where the little person hit the sandpit?
I'd put it with things like discus, javelin, hammer throw*, and shot put...farthest distance wins. Although I could see it divided into two or three categories; distance, height, and hang time.
With things like surfing and skateboarding being accepted I don't see why skydiving shouldn't be. Sequential relative work...how many different formations a group of four or eight skydivers can make in a given period of time...is very fast-paced and requires little technical knowledge to be exciting. More exciting than things like floor exercises or vaulting, in my opinion. And with current capabilities of GoPro-style cameras to transmit a signal to the ground in real time the viewers can be right in the middle of the action.
Overall, I was very interested in the Olympics when I was young, in the 60's when satellites beaming things halfway around the world was new. In the late 60's and early 70's I became more aware of the geopoliticalization and the shenanigans that some countries were pulling, and the gold, silver, and bronze began to lose some of their luster. Nearly the rest of my interest was killed when they started allowing professional athletes to officially compete, and particularly the pride that so many of my fellow Americans took in the best of the NBA somehow dominated the basketball competition. It just struck me as cheering for a professional boxer to beat up a high school kid. And the final nail in the coffin was (and if this is deemed to stray to far into PWEC, please edit this sentence out) all the SJWBS that has recently been added, again primarily by my home country.
*It's NOT a hammer. But if they called it "ball-and-chain throwing" I suppose it could lead people to think it involved domestic violence.
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Can't really give Ms RappinHo what she deserves, you know like ZSPN and her anti-male, guy gets a soccer ball in the face.
I can give her the whole song, for her and her "sisters". Hard to believe they and others are allowed to represent the America my forefathers fought for.
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