Your Olympic Sport to Drop

[SmallTown]

Any horse related event needs to go along with Tennis, Golf & Football. Rugby 7s is a waste of time too.

Rugby 7s is also brilliant.

 

[Boro4life]

Replace proper 11 a side football with futsal or 5 a side. Like the rugby 7 have done

 

[MolteniArcore]

Rugby 7s is also brilliant.

As good as darts? Darts should be an Olympic sport,

 

[TheYorkshireTerrier]

Any of the horse related events, utterly pointless, I'd rather watch Crufts.

Weightlifting.

 

[SmallTown]

As good as darts? Darts should be an Olympic sport,

Here we go *braces himself* it’s a lot better than darts.

It’s also a sport…

 

[Jan_Aage_Fjortoft]

Climbing is one that I've not seen listed. Making its debut so does that mean it's safe for now? I've never really seen the appeal.

 

[TheYorkshireTerrier]

Replace proper 11 a side football with futsal or 5 a side. Like the rugby 7 have done

A masters style approach would be much better than the full 11 a side!

 

[SmallTown]

Climbing is one that I've not seen listed. Making its debut so does that mean it's safe for now? I've never really seen the appeal.

It’sa great way to switch off. It’s honestly the only sport I’ve done where you need to 100% concentrate on your next couple of moves and switch any other thoughts off

 

[MolteniArcore]

Here we go *braces himself* it’s a lot better than darts.

It’s also a sport…

We'll park this here

 

[Laughing]

When the modern olympics started there were events such as sculpting and poetry. The oldest gold medal winner was in the pentathlon of muses that ran from 1912 to 1948, and was 79 years old. A record that stands today.

Curling is just Olympic spring cleaning.

 

[pierrequiroule]

I gather break dancing is coming into the French Olympics….. can’t wait !! All that’s missing now is morris dancing.

Guaranteed gold for GB though.

Curling is just Olympic spring cleaning.

Hairdressing! Now you're talking.

 

[Centralscrutinizer]

Like some enlightened people have already said. Darts, snooker and downhill mountain biking should be in.

I'd take out the walking and the one where they dance about with a ribbon on a stick. Both seem completely pointless

 

[Brian Marwood]

By that measure you need to ditch all the running events, weightlifting, swimming, etc.

No skill just physical prowess innit?

Running is about having a good start.
Weightlifting is all about having a nice clean snatch.
Swimming, again, it's the dive at the start.

 

[Laughing]

Running is about having a good start.
Weightlifting is all about having a nice clean snatch.
Swimming, again, it's the dive at the start.

My wife would be rubbish at weight lifting then.

 

[Brian Marwood]

They all have technique even rowing.

That's not true, I have done rowing in my dining room on a machine and also in my local park lake with the kids. It's just rowing, trust me.

 

[Littlejimmy]

I'm totally on board with removing these judged events like horse dancing and rhythmic gymnastics. If we're keeping them, we might as well have baking or beauty contests. FF and indeed S.

 

[SmallTown]

I'm totally on board with removing these judged events like horse dancing and rhythmic gymnastics. If we're keeping them, we might as well have baking or beauty contests. FF and indeed S.

I disagree. I quite like olympic boxing. And, though not my thing, there is definitely a place for the diving.

 

[SmallTown]

That's not true, I have done rowing in my dining room on a machine and also in my local park lake with the kids. It's just rowing, trust me.

You, you must be on a wind up surely?

 

[Littlejimmy]

I disagree. I quite like olympic boxing. And, though not my thing, there is definitely a place for the diving.

OK, boxing I'll give you, because there is a tangible scoring system and no artistic interpretation.

 

[Frozen Horse]

I don't particularly enjoy equestrianism or sailing, but I don't have a problem with them being there. Plenty seem to enjoy them.
I think there's a movement to take the games a bit more "street" with skateboarding, BMX and 3v3 basketball, and I don't much have a problem with that.

I don't like golf, tennis or football being in there: they have their own major events, and the Olympic tournaments are an afterthought.
I wouldn't mind a 5 a side football tournament; a recognised variation on a bigger sport, like the rugby 7s.