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Trampoline and Tennis needs to go.

Why is there Tennis in Olympics?

Volleyball is awesome. Since the new scoring system went into effect, I think it is one of the better Olympic sports to watch. How anyone can say they are unathletic is crazy talk. The US's best player was the NCAA high jump champ. She must be a real couch potato.

Some of the sports people have mentioned are not separate Olympic sports, they are events within a larger sport. So race walking is an event within athletics, just like the different weight classes are different events within wrestling.

The IOC got rid of an entire sport, not just an event. It's like getting rid of all of athletics (track and field), not just race walking.

Maybe it would make sense to get rid of marginal events - like race walking or paring down the many similar swimming, diving, and gymnastics events - because it would reduce numbers of athletes and time, but that's not what the IOC was deciding.

Anyway, it completely stinks. If you are going to cut sports, cut fake sports, like shooting where they had a woman who was 8 months pregnant competing. She is obviously very skilled, but any sport that an 8-month pregnant woman can compete at requires no real athletic ability. Or, as others have said, cut sports like tennis and soccer where the Olympics are just an afterthought, not the pinnacle of the event.

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Wakeboarding? F*cking wakeboarding? Don't they have the X-Games for this kind of stuff?

Like jogging 24 times around and around and around a stupid @ss track is any more legitimate of an event.

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the bottom line is that wrestling has a shitty lobby and didn't bribe enough people.

regarding the "nobody watches wrestling" or "the public isn't interested in it," it's kind of a self-fulfilling prophesy. if nbc decided to hype it, load up on human interest stories and show it prime time, like it does with beach volleyball or swimming (2 sports the general public pays no attention to except when it is forced on it every 4 years during prime time), i'm sure a lot more people would watch it and enjoy watching it -- particularly if women's wrestling has some hot women in it.

Can't they just do it WWE style?

Form of human combat: kicked out

Sitting on a horse while the horse does something: still in

As a side note, is the modern pentathlon really that modern? The events are supposed to mimic the required abilities of a soldier or police officer, but how often do you see a cop fight someone with a sword? Or see a soldier chase an enemy combatant down on a horse?

I think this would be a more modern pentathlon:

-The doughnut binge

-The red light run

-The racial profiling competition

-The right wing rant

-Run 3k on the track, and then try to convince everyone that your time was for 5k cross country

they are supposed to mimic the skills of a cavalry officer -- not a cop or soldier.

they are modern when the ancient olympics are viewed from the perspective of someone in 1912.

i'm very glad that MP made it through. it has a ton of history (patton) and is what olympic sports are supposed to be about -- training your butt off to win an olympic medal, knowing that you never will make any money doing it but still doing it for the love or sport.

quick draw mcgraw wrote:

they are supposed to mimic the skills of a cavalry officer -- not a cop or soldier.

they are modern when the ancient olympics are viewed from the perspective of someone in 1912.

i'm very glad that MP made it through. it has a ton of history (patton) and is what olympic sports are supposed to be about -- training your butt off to win an olympic medal, knowing that you never will make any money doing it but still doing it for the love or sport.

Well with your definition of cavalry officer, the more modern version of the events would be:

-not exist

And at that point, they might as well call it the god pentathlon. Am I right, fellas?

In my humble opinion any sport where the Olympics isn't the absolute pinnacle of accomplishment should be cut.

This would include:

Basketball

Cycling

Boxing

Tennis

Soccer

Golf

I know I might be missing a few, but all these should be axed immediately.

it's not my definition. i wasn't alive in 1912 when the event was created and named. i'm just explaining the event to you. you might sound a little bit more intelligent if you actually learned something about it before posting on it again.

I can't believe this ancient of an event is over. I wrestled in high school and it definitely changed my life and gave me the tenacity needed to be a college runner. We always admired our coach who was an Olympian and a lot of my teammates wrestle in college, no doubt like us runners, aspiring to go to the Olympics.

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Mr. Olympics wrote:

In my humble opinion any sport where the Olympics isn't the absolute pinnacle of accomplishment should be cut.

This would include:

Basketball

Cycling

Boxing

Tennis

Soccer

Golf

I know I might be missing a few, but all these should be axed immediately.

I agree with all these except boxing. The reason being that Olympis boxing is still (mostly?) an amateur sport. The rules are substantially different from pro boxing and you often see promising athletes on their first "big stage" While that keeps it interesting, the subjectivity of scoring makes it less so.

boxing definitely is a core olympic sport that is the pinnacle for many (most) of its competitors. yes, there are a few boxers who go on to make a lot of money boxing pro but that's not the case for most olympic boxers (particularly those in the lighter weight classes). dinging boxing because there are a few pro boxers who are more interested in making money as pros would be like dinging the marathon because there are a few pro runners who make more money in the majors.

quick draw mcgraw wrote:

i'm very glad that MP made it through. it has a ton of history (patton) and is what olympic sports are supposed to be about -- training your butt off to win an olympic medal, knowing that you never will make any money doing it but still doing it for the love or sport.

amatuerism, or shamatuerism, died a while ago.

The Olympics are about money.

quick draw mcgraw wrote:

i'm very glad that MP made it through. it has a ton of history (patton) and is what olympic sports are supposed to be about -- training your butt off to win an olympic medal, knowing that you never will make any money doing it but still doing it for the love or sport.

This is dumb. It's a given that just about any athlete who makes it to the Olympics has trained hard to get there (with the possible exception of athletes who are sent as token representatives without meeting Olympic standards).

The thing that bothers me is that the actual athletic talent and drive needed to succeed in sports like equestrian, modern pentathlon and sailing are secondary to being from a very wealthy family. I know somebody who has competed at the highest levels of modern pentathlon and has a rich father who spends well over 100K/ year on him so that he can live his dream. Obviously, there are a lot of sports that require high training expenses to reach an elite level but horse sports are really at the extreme end of the spectrum.

Wrestling, on the other hand, is a great example of a sport that is far more competitive and universal due to its accessibility. I'm not a huge wrestling fan but I'd watch it over modern pentathlon or golf any day and I have great respect for the work ethic and athletic talent of top athletes in the sport.

Personally, I think that weight divisions should be done away with in combative sports and weightlifting in the Olympics though. It's a given that bigger guys will dominate these sports but athletes with slim builds dominate in running events and badminton. Having weight categories for combative sports is like having multiple weight categories for the Olympic marathon, as it's a given that no 200 lb runner could ever compete for a medal against your typical 130 lb elite runners.

quick draw mcgraw wrote:

boxing definitely is a core olympic sport that is the pinnacle for many (most) of its competitors. yes, there are a few boxers who go on to make a lot of money boxing pro but that's not the case for most olympic boxers (particularly those in the lighter weight classes). dinging boxing because there are a few pro boxers who are more interested in making money as pros would be like dinging the marathon because there are a few pro runners who make more money in the majors.

I like Boxing as much as the next person and also believe that it's a core Olympic sport. But the problem arises when they Olympics become an afterthought. A way to "add" to one's resume. In Track and Field (and wrestling) the Olympics are the absolute end all, be all. Athletes train their entire lives just to get the opportunity to even get the chance to qualify. This is not the same with boxing.

To me, the Olympics is about being the best in the World on a particular day. If the best in the World don't care enough to show up...what's the point?

quick draw mcgraw wrote:

it's not my definition. i wasn't alive in 1912 when the event was created and named. i'm just explaining the event to you. you might sound a little bit more intelligent if you actually learned something about it before posting on it again.

Oh yeah? Well YOU might sound a little bit more intelligent if you learned something about proper capitalization before teaching an English class.

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I say get rid off all horse riding events because they're terribly drugged up and other than athletes, they don't chose to.

Only exception is modern heptathlon. Here, horses are (randomly) drawn 20min before competition so there is no incentive for the rider to dope his horse.