Your Olympic Sport to Drop

Osboro

Osboro

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They keep adding sports , but isn’t it time ( like motor boating, I kid you not) some we’re dropped
My Choice
Dressage, medals won by family and friends of the various Olympic committees.
Got to say the horses are beautiful but it shouldn’t be in the Olympics.
 
Osboro said:
They keep adding sports , but isn’t it time ( like motor boating, I kid you not) some we’re dropped
My Choice
Dressage, medals won by family and friends of the various Olympic committees.
Got to say the horses are beautiful but it shouldn’t be in the Olympics.
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That would probably be the olympic sort I'd be best at, so no, don't drop dressage. Keep all equestrian events. I'm not feeling the BMX to be honest. Or the skateboarding
 
Yeah the horses aren’t my cuppa so I’d drop those events.

Are skateboarding etc just in for this Olympics or more permanent… I always thought host countries got to include some popular sports that aren’t usually in?
 
I think most "sports" where the result is judged by a panel is already on dubious ground. Which leave a pretty empty schedule as I've dumped most gymnastics, boxing, diving, horse dancing, skateboarding and quite a few others. On the plus side I would bring back target javelin chucking (I believe in the Ancient games) and introduce darts, snooker, downhill mountain bikes and quite a few other skill and scoring based disciplines.
 
Rowing, there's just no skill to it at all. I reckon you could practice hard on a rowing machine in your garage and become good enough for the Olympics.
 
Horse dancing is on now.

Chris Moyles sent a message to Charlotte Dujardin asking her to dance her horse to Prodigy Firestarter. She didn’t reply.
 
Drop darts, before they even think about allowing it :ROFLMAO:

But in seriousness, I'm fine with them keeping all events, and bringing in more new ones which are current, then if people don't like them then they don't have to watch.

I suppose it could dilute the competition of which country "wins" the most, by having some obscure golds etc, but that's a load of crap anyway, I don't think anyone really cares about country totals, it's more about certain people winning key events for me.
 
Rhythmic Gymnastics, save it for BGT or the circus.

I gather break dancing is coming into the French Olympics….. can’t wait !! All that’s missing now is morris dancing.
 
Brian Marwood said:
Rowing, there's just no skill to it at all. I reckon you could practice hard on a rowing machine in your garage and become good enough for the Olympics.
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There’s definitely skill to rowing in teams, you have to be absolutely in tune with the strokes and time your whole body movements as it’s so easy to fall out of time or mis-stroke and cause havoc.

My old work entered a team into the Durham all comers regatta several years ago and we were the highest placed mixed team, but I know it’s not the sport for me as even though I did ok as a beginner, my timing, technique and coordination in that boat weren’t the best!
 
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