Breakdancing proposed as a sport for the Olympics
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There's actually a good case for some types of pole "dancing", which are bona fide gymnastics events. Just think "vertical bar" instead of "horizontal bar".
Here's some examples of the traditional Indian version:
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Jeez, not for the heavyweight greco-roman wrestling!
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Or Judo. Would not like to heavyweight men or women in a triangle choke.
That being said though pretty much all ground game (Newaza) has been eliminated from 'sport' judo. Hence BJJ.
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On the plus side, it would open up some interesting new holds. The love handle grab wouldn't be fun.
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Give it a few years and we'll have fat, autistic neckbeards screaming at each other because eSports have been made part of the games.
I'm surprised as well! Both the men's and women's game require high levels of athleticism and skill. it's a disgrace it's not there to some of the one's that are...
Or some other high level sporting events. Surely squash is on a par with tennis in terms of skill and athleticism, for example. So where's the squash version of Wimbledon, Grand Slam tournaments and suchlike?
Next up - Olympic Tiddlywinks!
I'm not sure that the original Olympics are the right model for modern Olympics. The nudity thing might attract viewers, but the cultural context is different. Besides, the original Olympics were a war substitute and could be fatal. Ancient Greek wrestling was so dangerous that a rule was required that stated that killing your opponent in the ring meant that you lost the match. There were cases of a corpse being declared the winner. Not a good fit for modern societies. It would also cause problems in scoring because the original Olympics had only one score that mattered - winning. There was the winner and there were people who failed. Who were they? Who cares? They failed. Silver medal? No. You failed. Bronze medal? No. You failed. You failed by less than some other failures? Big wow. You failed. Go away and hide. You failed. Also not a good fit for modern societies. Excluding women from all events bar one (a foot race) also wouldn't go down well nowadays.
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This is how all sport is when you are playing competitively. Ask any passionate sports person and they have absolutely no interest in second or third places and meaningless medals.
There are major tournaments with squash (British open etc) as well as it being in the Commonwealth games. In terms of athleticism and overall fitness I think squash easily beats tennis and can’t imagine many sports are more demanding.
https://psaworldtour.com/news/view/...a-highlighting-squash-s-true-physical-demands
In comparison, Momen covered a total of 4,965.5 meters during the course of 100 contested points – an average of 48 meters per point. Momen covered 1.3km more than Nadal in a third of the time Nadal spent on court.
Momen was in-play for 60 per cent of the match – a figure that pushes squash towards the very top of the relative in-play tables with only sports like soccer and field hockey registering greater numbers.
Nadal was in-play for 15 per cent of his.
Great, something else to not bother watching in the Olympics. They've argued for years to include karting, as it's the kind of motorsport that is found worldwide and is hugely competitive, but no one must have any interest to do so.
Ice dancing in the winter Olympics and that weird floor routine thing with a ribbon are much worse. Some of the awesome wind milling you see in the Break dancing championships are as hard as the pommel horse routines. Don't see a problem if it's got some structure to it, like you have to complete a certain difficulty of movements.
Some of these moves are incredible.
Some of these moves are incredible.
I guessed you'd have to have different categories but I've always found body popping very cringe.
Even done well the person looks like such a tool, same with a lot of the pointless leg work in break dancing. I only like all the flips and spins.
That guy just looks like he's wiggying from a having a fit.
Scoring breakdancing would have some level of subjectiveness, however objective criteria can be attributed to the discipline in just the same way as Diving, Equestrian, Gymnastics, Trampoline etc all are. These can be around starting position, poise, grace, level of difficulty, amount/competence of synchronisation, quality of certain moves etc. There is no difference.
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To be fair, 95% of the Olympics is rubbish, so why not?
Synchronised diving, for example. What an utter waste of time that is.
Synchronised diving, for example. What an utter waste of time that is.
Think I'll stick to Spearmint Rhino if it's all the same.