any sport with a referee or umpire is essentially judged. sure they aren’t scoring but they decide what is and isn’t fair and oftentimes the rules aren’t clear cut.
You get week long debates about a fair catch or pass interference or a penalty because it comes down to a judgment call.
An official in American football is someone whose responsibility it is to help the Kansas City Chiefs win the Super Bowl.
any sport with a referee or umpire is essentially judged. sure they aren’t scoring but they decide what is and isn’t fair and oftentimes the rules aren’t clear cut.
You get week long debates about a fair catch or pass interference or a penalty because it comes down to a judgment call.
They decide whether a jumper or a thrower fouled, whether a sprinter false started or stepped over the line, or whether relay members passed the baton outside of the zone.
yeah. same same. although these are much less open to interpretation.
100 percent. I don't even understand how the WNBA is even a thing still. They have to be losing billions of dollars. I have zero friends who watch the WNBA. Most of them are basketball fans as well.
Which Olympic sport would you literally have to be paid to watch? Apparently the least favourite sport is race walking followed closely by equestrian. I personally think they should introduce horse race walking. I’d pay to watch that.
I find aesthetic sports boring to watch, unless they are highly skilled and adventurous. So diving and proper gymnastics are fine, but skateboarding, breakdancing, football, climbing synchonrised swimming, rythmic gymnastics, where there are only fine margins between competitors visible only to those involved in the sport I find dull to watch. Sports where there are races between the competitors are fine or a very obvious scoring system like horse-jumping. Sailing is also very boring to watch. I have no idea what is happening and the scenes very rarely change. Same as golf.
I don't understand why breakdancing had to be included out of all of the possibilities for new sports. Why not duathlon instead? Very different from a triathlon but with more running. Or cross country or mountain running?
I also think the Olympics should mainly be for sports which have reasonably wide participation outside elite levels. So tennis is good, swimming, triathlon and athletics are good, but have you ever met a modern pentathlete? Or a sailor - didn't Prince Albert of Monaco take part in the Olympic sailing once because its a sport for the very rich? Breakdancing, sorry but how many people do breakdancing as a competitive sport and which four countries do they come from?
surprisingly interesting every 4 years: archery, decathlon/pentathlon, foil, indoor volleyball,
needs work: steeple should be xc,
needs to go away: walking, skating, rhythmic, the team pool gymnastics thing (I know, "it's really hard"), long distance indoor swimming, team diving-omg-esp men's, beach volleyball-good try, it sucks. Every point is celebrated??even losing 🙄
Without distance running, except for the 1500m in your scenario, I would have no interest in watching T&F. Ingebrigtsen running against the sun-12:40 guys is going to be awesome. Why do you post on a running forum?
John Shuster and his team scored five points in a huge 8th end to swing the momentum on the way to a 10-7 defeat of Sweden for the U.S.'s first ever curling ...
Breakdancing and skateboarding is silly to include in the Olympics, the people who are into those sports for real are strongly opposed to turning it into a commercialized product and a popularity contest with judges. Golf sucks as well.
I want to see something like orienteering in the Olympics, it's been broadcast on TV here in Sweden and they're doing both urban orienteering and orienteering out in the woods, and urban orienteering would probably work for Olympics.
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