Ridiculous olympic sports

[VprHis]

Besides, it's probably not wise to bash synchro swimming on an OSU board. You're aware, I'm sure, that OSU's synchro team pretty much owns the national championships every year, right?

 

[Buckeyeskickbuttocks]

I don't think it's an olympic sport anymore, but a number of years ago Ballroom Dancing was included...

 

[BuckeyeSkins]

Besides, it's probably not wise to bash synchro swimming on an OSU board. You're aware, I'm sure, that OSU's synchro team pretty much owns the national championships every year, right?

Didn't mean to appear to be bashing it.....probably just me but I just can't seem to consider it a sport.

 

[gbearbuck]

I just learned something... Equestrian Dressage is a "sport"... do people even ride them or do they just show off the horses? How on earth could that be a sport...

At least ping-pong and badmitten (sp) have a net, racket/paddle, and a ball/birdie to hit.... shoud they be sports, prob. not... but I can see the argument... horse showing is a totally different story....

 

[3yardsandacloud]

Here's a link to some discontinued Modern Olympic Sports:

http://www.topendsports.com/events/discontinued/list.htm

Tug of War?
Live Pigeon Shooting?

 

[DEBuckeye]

Someone recently told me that poker was being considered for inclusion in the Olympics. Now that's going too far.

 

[RugbyBuck]

Is "rhythmic gymnastics" still in? If so, that's my pick.

 

[AKAK]

Okay-

Synchronized anything sucks... it basically says... I'm not good enough if I jsut compete myslef, so I'll find someone else in the same boat as me and we'' perform at a medicore level at exactly the same time.

Rythmic Gymnastics... Once again... I'm not a realy Gymnast... so I'll twirl this ribbon and people will think its pretty... let me give a shout out to ice dancing right now too... Can't make it as a real figure skater? No Problem.

Anyhow... Dressage is a little better sisnce its part of the score other horsemanship stuff... it probably needs to go the way of the 'compulsory figures' in figure skating...

Hey... Live Pigeon Shooting is just Trap without the Clay Pigeons.

Table Tennis would be better if they just called in Ping Pong.. and then added Billiards... and Poker.

In my opinion.. if you're not in the Pentathalon... you're a pussy...

 

[RugbyBuck]

Apparently, rugby is not enough of a sport to be considered/included. Also, the US is the current Olympic rugby champion dating back to the last time is was included - something like 1918.

 

[BuckeyeTillIDie]

My nomination: badminton

But the "ball" is called a shuttlecock. There is nothing funnier in sports then the name "shuttlecock".

 

[BuckeyeInTheBoro]

Sounds like something from the Porn-Am games:

"I ran a 6.3 in the shuttlecock"

 

[RugbyBuck]

There's also something called the Gay Games that may make liberal use of the shuttlecock.

 

[FCollinsBuckeye]

Rugby, you just wanted to use 'gay', 'liberal' and 'shuttlecock' in the same sentence. Mission accomplished.

 

[BuckeyeInTheBoro]

Rugby, you just wanted to use 'gay', 'liberal' and 'shuttlecock' in the same sentence. Mission accomplished.

 

[RugbyBuck]

Classic. The linguistic coupling was entirely inadvertant. Must have been a Freudian slip.