I agree. There's a number of options that are better than sync. swimming & diving, dressage, the leaping around on gym equipment, leaping about on a mat with a twiddly stick... to name a few. In the winter there are fewer things I don't watch, like the lobbing heavy bits of stone down some ice and figure skating.
Breakdancing proposed as a sport for the Olympics
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I agree. There's a number of options that are better than sync. swimming & diving, dressage, the leaping around on gym equipment, leaping about on a mat with a twiddly stick... to name a few. In the winter there are fewer things I don't watch, like the lobbing heavy bits of stone down some ice and figure skating.
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Gymnastics is one of the few things I do watch at the Olympics.
Synchronised diving is pure irony: pointlessness being awarded points.
You might as well go for synchronised washing up.
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What is and isn't an Olympic Sport? I dunno, breakdancing doesn't feel like it should be an Olympic Sport but I'd rather have it over basketball, football, rugby and tennis all of which frankly don't need to be there. The Olympics used to be where you found the peak of athletics and other sports that lacked the professional high profile (and once upon a time even professionalism) now it seems to have lost it's heart. More the merrier, when will Morris Dancing be included?
That reminds me of an interview I saw with Michelle Mouton. She was a rally driver, but this particular part of the interview was about the Pikes Peak hillclimb she did after she retired. Not a hill in this case - it's a bona fide mountain. Someone who knew the course warned her about a bend near the top which was tighter than it looked and advised her that she'd have to slow a bit to take it in the car she was driving. She took the corner flat out anyway because she was, as always, racing every inch to win. Going off the road at that point would almost certainly be fatal and she said in the interview that for a second she thought she was going to go off the road. But she didn't lift. Passionate about winning, yes. Maybe a bit too much. She broke some cars in her rallying days, pushing just a bit too far. But she did win that hillclimb - she set a new world record for it.
Whereas my experience as a DJ and general interest in dance music appreciates the hell out of how in sync his movements are with the music. That level of body control is seriously impressive.
Less so to some extent in that it isn't inherently competitive but rather it can be when a formal competition has been structured around it via subjective judging of who performed better. I mean with that definition singing could be a sport too or indeed most things on Britains Got Talent.
That definition is incomplete anyway but regardless, under that defenition then with darts and snooker they are designed specifically for competition, it's inherent to the activity themselves via the objective rules/scoring system.
That being said, by introducing some formal judgment and a tournament structure then it's as much of a sport as say synchronized swimming or some aspects of gymnastics etc... so I don't see why it can't be included if they are.
As mentioned the definition quoted is incomplete, it doesn't fit all uses of the word "sport", there are things traditionally labeled sport that don't necessarily involve competition. Scuba diving and mountaineering are sports but don't need to involve any competition, ditto to field sports like hunting and fishing.
for example this definition doesn't require the competition element:
https://dictionary.cambridge.org/dictionary/english/sport
That's a truly frightening thought process.