events to dump from the lympics

Thank you, preposterous.

How about "Fear Factor" commercials

They should add an ultra marathon. Like 100miles over hilly rough terrain.

Jason

Seriously, I think they should add a long open water swimming event, like a 10k or something.

Oh yeah, look at how many disputed matches have there been in the Olympics. I can't remember off the top of my noggin' but there was an American ( maybe leonard or Holyfield) who really got jobbed. And a few Olympics back didn't the have to pause the boxing event to get a disbelieving competitor to leave the ring. He just wouldn't leave his corner after he felt he was totally ripped off. Boxing may be one of the more controversial judged events in the past Olympic. Didn't see too much of it this year, but it must have gone fairly smoothly or we'd have heard about it.

There are too many events in track and field which make the sport unmarketable and impossible to develop a professional team league. I say only have these events:

100

400

1500

5000

110H

Marathon

LJ

HJ

SP

PV

Discus

4x100

4x400

12 Events plus the marathon is more than enough to diversify the needs of hungry American track and field enthusiasts.

They need to add some sports/games if only to increase attendance. Did you see all the empty seats?! The only people going to the games are friends and family of the athletes.

The increased attendance from additional games will make it more worth while for the host country.

I agree lets dump all these other silly events and go back to the ORIGINAL OLYMPIC EVENTS...guess what you wacky ping pong player...they didnt play PING PONG in the first olympics it was actually brought in 1988...must have been Forest Gump who made it possible...Thank you Forest...

All these other participants in these other events wanted an outlet to showcase some of their skill and obviously the Olympics has become the pefect place for that...I mean come on people CURLING in the winter olympics?!??!?!?!

They could take the scoring out of boxing and just fight until there was a KO. And get rid of that padding crap, and the gloves. Barenuckle fighting. That would work.

I tried watching the gold medal ping pong match the other day and I honestly could not keep my eyes open, it worked like a tranquilizer pill.

Get rid of the trampoline (change it to aerial motocross), gymnastics (change it to surfing), horse jumping (replace it with bull riding), get rid of rowing and replace it with hydroplane racing, get rid of diving and replace it with a bellyflop contest. Wrestling of course should be changed sligthly to Ultimate Fighting. Get rid of the team sports as well, especially the ones with professional paid atheletes such as soccer and basketball. Replace these with XC running and Ultra running events. Replace the archery with big game hunting like Grizzly or Elephant hunting. They should of course add a team event where they ride a giant log down a mountainside. That would be cool and they should replace Judo with Sumo.