Thread: Olympic 'Sports' You'd Get Rid Of - Choose Five (5)

Artistic swimming and tennis trampoline sound a bit strange..

Originally Posted by bsnub

I was going to vote for cricket. The most boring shit sport in the world. Then I realized it is not an Olympic sport.

You could have Rounders. You're really good at.....





Oh.

'Sposed to be "Faster, Higher, Stronger" innit.

So WTF skateboarding and gymnastics are doing there I have no idea.

Anything that requires subjective judging should be removed.

Originally Posted by Slick

To the boring cnuts who voted to remove BMX and Skateboarding:

OK Boomer.

Slackbladder tries and fails to establish some street cred…

Tennis trampoline tops my list. I didn't know it was even a sport.
Dressage is nipping at its heels in a close second.
Then it's BMX Freestyle, Artistic Swimming and Sport Climbing.

Agree with all of you


Too much, but which has to go ?

I'm old and conservative, so will let others decide. Future generations or the totally corrupt IOC

(the old ones, javelin, shot put etc has to stay imo)


Come to think of it:

I don't care

Get rid of all those requiring subjective interpretation and get rid of the sports, just leave the games*.

Actually, you could turn some of the sports into games with: "first to score 3 goals" etc.,

* A game is defined as one with a set of rules and a defined goal that players try to reach.

Athletics,

Cricket wants to end 128-year Olympic snub in 2028

Thanks to India, cricket is one of the biggest sports globally but now the game is looking to end its snub from the biggest event in the world.
AFP



Could we see cricket at the Olympics?Source:AFP



Cricket’s world governing body said on Monday that it intends to push for the sport’s return to the Olympics at the 2028 Games in Los Angeles.
The International Cricket Council said it would start preparations on an Olympic campaign to point out “the sport’s inclusion in 2028 would mark the end of a 128-year absence.”
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Cricket has appeared once in the Olympics, at Paris in 1900, where the Devon and Somerset Wanderers, representing Great Britain, beat the only other entrants, a team of British embassy staff appearing as France, by 158 runs in a one-innings match.
ICC chair Greg Barclay said the Tokyo Games, which ended on Sunday, had been an inspiration and that cricket’s large fanbase meant it should be invited to the party.
“I would like to congratulate the IOC, Tokyo 2020, and the people of Japan for staging such an incredible Games in such difficult circumstances,” Barclay said in an ICC statement.
“It truly was fantastic to watch and captured the imagination of the world and we would love for cricket to be a part of future Games.
“We see the Olympics as a part of cricket’s long-term future. We have more than a billion fans globally and almost 90 per cent of them want to see cricket at the Olympic.
“Clearly cricket has a strong and passionate fanbase, particularly in South Asia where 92 per cent of our fans come from, whilst there are also 30 million cricket fans in the USA.
“The opportunity for those fans to see their heroes competing for an Olympic medal is tantalising.”

At 40 each, Glenn Maxwell and Virat Kohli will probably not be there.Source:Getty Images

Barclay pointed out that cricket will be returning to the Commonwealth Games in 2022 in Birmingham which will include a women’s T20 competition.
The sport previously appeared in the Commonwealth Games in 1998 in Malaysia, when South Africa won a 50-over competition.
“The sport will feature in the Birmingham 2022 Commonwealth Games next year, which shapes as a perfect showcase for what the sport can bring to the Olympics, as well as being a momentous occasion on its own,” the ICC statement said.
“We know it won’t be easy to secure our inclusion as there are so many other great sports out there wanting to do the same. But we feel now is the time to put our best foot forward and show what a great partnership cricket and the Olympics are.”
Olympics: Cricket’s bid to end 128-year exile, ICC, Los Angeles 2028, T20 Cricket

Shame on the 7 members who voted skateboarding

That was the most enjoyable, entertaining and enthusiastic new Olympic sport.

Originally Posted by Joe 90

Shame on the 7 members who voted skateboarding

That was the most enjoyable, entertaining and enthusiastic new Olympic sport.

Agreed.

Originally Posted by Clark77

Tennis trampoline

That I'd watch!

For the thousandth time:

Originally Posted by panama hat

**(Tennis/Trampoline got sling together - choose if either)

Sheesh!!!

Originally Posted by TheRealKW

Let's add cricket!

Pfffft . . . seven countries 'play' this game . . . which format would you choose? Can't be test. Packer? Slugball?

As of July 2021, there are 106 ICC members, with 12 Full Members and 94 Associate Members.

pppppffffffftttttt - bugger orf wif yer 'fakts'

Originally Posted by TheRealKW

As of July 2021, there are 106 ICC members, with 12 Full Members and 94 Associate Members.

12 full members . . .

106 total.

12 Full

Nah nah nah nah nah

Those 94 can still compete too!

Originally Posted by Switch

Association Football and Rugby Union already have World Cup events every 4 years. No need for further complication/competition.

But then the Canadian Women's football team would not have had a venue to beat the US team?

Pentathlon

Only half as good as the decathlon?

How about those 'boys and girls' 4 person relays?

If they're single gender then you put your *relatively* weakest runners in legs 2+3.

If they're mixed gender then you stick the birds​* in there.

I mean...empowerment...



*some terms in this post may have been used for dramatic effect.

Top form tonight ?

100 meter hurdles for shot putters ?

(she ran it or else the belgian team would have been disqualified)

What utter silliness.

Points make prizes. Good team effort.