Kevin T
Hall of Fame
That's a great story.
I play a lot more squash than tennis these days and every time I think I'm getting pretty good and rolling through a league, I play some English guy that gives me a proper beat down.
Paris Olympics to include- Breakdancing, Surfing, Skateboarding, and Climbing.
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That's a great story.
I play a lot more squash than tennis these days and every time I think I'm getting pretty good and rolling through a league, I play some English guy that gives me a proper beat down.Why are the names important?
Oh I see. You just wanted to tell everyone you went to Cornell. Nice way to slip that in.
sredna42
Hall of Fame
Totally agree, although climbing is a good candidate for an Olympic sport. It is an insanely hard discipline at the upper level.
The tv here never shows any traditional athletic events like javelin, decathlon, hammer throw, etc. Pretty sure they won't even show it on payTV. Its like they are trying to kill it with silence.
Not that it matters, since the Olympics are dead as a concept, and is more like a political cirque du soleil, or eurovision song contest, travelling around the world leaving debt and wreckage in its wake.
sredna42
Hall of Fame
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Chadalina
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I still like the special olympics, glad they were funded today.
Olympics kinda of died when they let the pro's in.
Im not into Lacrosse. But what is different to that game compared to a thousand other games where guys run back and forth on a pitch.
I think they are both back.
Tshooter
G.O.A.T.
The number of javelin throwers worldwide = number of athletes involved in the discipline
The number of people practicing surfing and climbing = in the tens of millions
The Olympics have been a farce for decades . . .
The "javelin (contest)" harkens back the The Peloponnesian Wars. I learned that in Revenge of the Nerds (1984). Centuries.
However. Old things are fundamental, and we should not lose our fundamentals. I saw the "javelin" again in another movie: Terminator Genisys. The writers really know how to write. Old fundamental things are more scary than new things.
Lacrosse is a real sport. Lacrosse is a war game of the American Natives. The Olympics are war games.
Yes if you’re a rich Christian kid from Boston who is to uncoordinated for a real sport
The "javelin" lives on in American Football. American Football is the closest thing to the ancient Greek Olympics, the ancient war games.
Dancing is linked with martial arts since forever.
Break dancing has martial origins. Instead of fighting, they would have a "dance battle" on the theory that a better dancer is a better fighter. The theory is sound. That qualifies it as an Olympic sport.
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I nominate Dozens as an Olympic sport.
Dozens is ritualized combat game, where you try to come up with a dozen of the most clever insults, usually about somebody's mother.
Believe me, people fight with words way before they fight with fists.
EloQuent
Legend
Compelling theory, but no, I cannot budge when there is principle involved!
I shall diminish, and go into the west, and remain opposed to break dancing.
I'll try to convince you.
Tony Ferguson does break dancing.
Holly Holm does the Rockettes.
3:40
Young ballroom dancers do Judo.
Come to think of it, break dancing exemplify the Olympic Spirit better than any other sports.
That's not fiction, that's fact repeated over and over again. Patrick Swayze played American football in High School.
max
Legend
I once volunteered. To be honest, to me, the event gets a ton of local cash. .. .it well could be over-funded. At least around here. Some charities (think Susan Komen) really can rake it in. But I've seen some overkill in this area.
Nah, I ain't Scrooge. There are a TON of valuable charities out there. Have you ever seen the funding/death rate ratio for breast cancer research versus the funding/death ratio for prostate cancer?
Some charities just evoke more cash.
This is comedic, but there is an element of truth. Spartans were required to know music and dancing. Of course, they wouldn't dance individually, they would dance en masse, as an ensemble, corps de ballet, like the Rockettes troupe (troop).
Edit: Forget historical accuracy, that is one formidable fighting force.
For the first dance off, I give it to the Persians, they were a more cohesive fighting force.
Edit: Forget historical accuracy, that is one formidable fighting force.
For the first dance off, I give it to the Persians, they were a more cohesive fighting force.
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The Eastern Europeans calls pole dancing by cool name. They use the Greek word. They call it Pylon Dancing. I like that.
1. It's Greek.
2. It's old and new. It's an old word, but it sounds like a new sport. It sounds very science fiction and futuristic. Like something out of Buck Rogers in the 25th Century.
3. It separates itself from its origin in stripping/hoe-ing.
4. It is becoming a real sport.
Ladies and gentleman, Pylon Dancing.
That's Gold Medal material right there. Pylon Dancing should be an Olympic sport.
Now I have to speak Ebonics.
It would give us something better to do than "Shooting N****rs and pimping hoes."
If that's too rude and crude for you, I'll quote Shakespeare: "Lechery, lechery; still, wars and lechery; nothing else holds fashion."
Pylon dancing is no joke. It really is Monkey Kung Fu.
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Mike Bulgakov
G.O.A.T.
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Lol. See my problem with some olympic guy who says oh well this is now a sport is the idea is ok it need a certain amount of countries to acually do it in some form or another. But they ignore, bowling or pool or darts or heck golf for god knows how long
But say hey lets throw surfing or some sailing event that who the hell does pro sailing seriously? Like 50 people from a few countires? Like they have 20 sailing events but not bowling? Who came up with this? The whole thing is ridiculous.
But say hey lets throw surfing or some sailing event that who the hell does pro sailing seriously? Like 50 people from a few countires? Like they have 20 sailing events but not bowling? Who came up with this? The whole thing is ridiculous.
Sailing has been going on since the early days of humans and represents man's use of Nature to explore new lands. It is an unbroken tradition from the earliest peoples on wooden boats to the modern pros who use carbonfiber boats. Bowling doesn't quite cut it.
The original Olympic sports were martial training. If it's not martial training, it's not Olympic.
Tshooter
G.O.A.T.
Submission holds were removed from the sport of wrestling long ago, for good reasons. Submission holds is literally tearing somebody limb from limb. Ironically submission holds lives on in "fake" wrestling (WWE) and not in "real" Olympic wrestling. Who would've thunk it?
That's fine as it is. Olympic Wrestling makes it a martial art. A little bit more art, a little bit less martial, which is the spirit of the Olympics.
No, unless running is a martial art.
In High School in America, there is a thing called the 50 yards dash. Do you know why there is such a thing as a 50 yards dash? 50 yards is the effective killing range of arrows. You "raise shields" just like Captain Kirk says and you dash as fast as possible to close the distance of the kill zone.
You forget that "Captain" Kirk is a military captain.
EloQuent
Legend
Wouldn't it be smarter to zigzag?
Vcore89
Talk Tennis Guru
Orientation day [went to a div 1 in Lacrosse]: If you want to be the CEO of an MNC someday, start learning how to play lacrosse--pronto! It was, of course, the standard modus operandi delivered to all freshmen.
I love the movie The Fast and Furious, the first one. The opening scene shows 2 streets racers trying to race, but the police were trying to stop them, so they are running from the police.
That scene perfect re-creates the history of street racing, it's bootleggers running away from Prohibition cops. The movie tells you the origin of street racing.
That's Attack Pattern Alpha.
I saw the eeriest thing, a cockroach zig zagging. I've never seen it before in my life, they always run straight. It zig zagged exactly like aerial dogfights of WW1. That is crazy how a cockroach came up with that.
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