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I began loathing the IOC when they introduced curling as a sport. Great marbles on ice with brooms.
But lets face it. IOC only cares about money (no suprise here, its the same as any organization nowadays) and about what sports get the most facetime. Golf gets a LOT of facetime on camera and they saw the dollar signs when big named pros start representing their countries of origin (which is what...US, UK and maybe Aus?) every guy is now watching the olympics instead of just for gymnastics and volleyball. But its really going to be like watching another golf game.
I dont care much about wrestling, but I am a bit of a traditionalist when it comes to things like the olympics, and few things were more iconic then Wrestling. (just track and field games really)
Paitryn wrote: I began loathing the IOC when they introduced curling as a sport. Great marbles on ice with brooms.
But lets face it. IOC only cares about money (no suprise here, its the same as any organization nowadays) and about what sports get the most facetime. Golf gets a LOT of facetime on camera and they saw the dollar signs when big named pros start representing their countries of origin (which is what...US, UK and maybe Aus?) every guy is now watching the olympics instead of just for gymnastics and volleyball. But its really going to be like watching another golf game.
I dont care much about wrestling, but I am a bit of a traditionalist when it comes to things like the olympics, and few things were more iconic then Wrestling. (just track and field games really)
I'm suddenly envisioning the traiing sessions for the North Korean golf team. "Putt! Putt roll! Putt Putt dive into the bunker! You can't sink that putt? Fearless Leader made 279 holes in one! You must be an American spy!" BANG! (body gets dragged off) "Next volunteer!"
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Frazzled wrote: I know in the Yankee land wrestling is a big deal high school sport. Golf aint.
Mwahahahaha! Gold isn't a big deal? It's the biggest money sport in the world, and most of that is due to the massive money in the US.
Tiger Woods is a billionaire. The greatest wrestler in the world is some fat guy no-one here has ever heard of, who is currently hauling his ass from company to company looking for some sponsorship so he can keep up his wrestling training with only one part time job to make ends meet.
Actually, Karelin is a Hero of the Russian Federation and part of the Russian Duma. Try again.
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Frazzled wrote: I know in the Yankee land wrestling is a big deal high school sport. Golf aint.
Mwahahahaha! Gold isn't a big deal? It's the biggest money sport in the world, and most of that is due to the massive money in the US.
Tiger Woods is a billionaire. The greatest wrestler in the world is some fat guy no-one here has ever heard of, who is currently hauling his ass from company to company looking for some sponsorship so he can keep up his wrestling training with only one part time job to make ends meet.
Actually, Karelin is a Hero of the Russian Federation and part of the Russian Duma. Try again.
I never said golf isn't a big deal. I said it wasn't a sport. Any activity where grandmas who can barely walk but can still drink whiskey while playing is not a sport. Sorry. Do not pass Go. DO not collect $200. Thank you for playing.
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kronk wrote: Grandmas can also shoot, so we should dump the shooting events, too.
They can also pole vault and ski jump...once!
You have a point. When I was a wee neaderthal lad I'd climb granny's trees. She'd climb 'em with me.
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DaNewBoy wrote: Wrestling is the most homoerotic sport in history.... perhaps that has something to do with this move?
Seeing the rise in MMA I highly doubt that's the reason.
MMA is NOT wrestling, it is Mixed Marital Arts.
Wrestling is a sport you might find on ESPN 8 "The Ocho" and articles in Obscure Sports Weekly. Two men grappling, lying on, sweating over and breathing heavily into each other ears.
MMA on the other hand is, when not constantly "going to ground", mildly entertaining.
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AlmightyWalrus wrote: Actually, Karelin is a Hero of the Russian Federation and part of the Russian Duma. Try again.
Oh there's a wrestler who's big in Russia, well I guess that makes wrestling totally as big a sport as golf. Uh huh. Yep. That makes perfect sense.
I mean, I'm guessing there's a bunch of you who wrestled in high school, or watched wrestling in high school or something. You may like the sport a lot, and want it in the Olympics. And between tradition, and the Olympics properly being a place where otherwise obscure sports get international attention, there's good reasons that wrestling should be part of the Olympics.
But there's zero point pretending that it matches golf for prestige or drawing power. That's just crazy nonsense.
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Frazzled wrote: I never said golf isn't a big deal. I said it wasn't a sport.
Read your own posts please.
"I know in the Yankee land wrestling is a big deal high school sport. Golf aint."
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“We may observe that the government in a civilized country is much more expensive than in a barbarous one; and when we say that one government is more expensive than another, it is the same as if we said that that one country is farther advanced in improvement than another. To say that the government is expensive and the people not oppressed is to say that the people are rich.”
Adam Smith, who must have been some kind of leftie or something.
Golf isn't a big deal high school sport. Its something wealthy schools may have a team for but thats it. My point is correct - unless of course you have intimate knowledge from thousands of miles away on high school sports in the US.
And its still not a sport.
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Frazzled wrote: Golf isn't a big deal high school sport. Its something wealthy schools may have a team for but thats it. My point is correct - unless of course you have intimate knowledge from thousands of miles away on high school sports in the US.
Oh you meant only a big deal in terms of high school. So your point was that sports should be in the olympics or not based whether they have a large following in US highschools.
Well that's a totally sensible thing, then.
“We may observe that the government in a civilized country is much more expensive than in a barbarous one; and when we say that one government is more expensive than another, it is the same as if we said that that one country is farther advanced in improvement than another. To say that the government is expensive and the people not oppressed is to say that the people are rich.”
Adam Smith, who must have been some kind of leftie or something.
Why is synchronised swimming still an olympic sport?
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Because it sells out in every single games. And generally it sells out before any other sport, and the tickets cost a hell of a lot.
That every year lots of people pay a lot of money to see what is probably the stupidest thing human beings have ever done is a fair criticism of humanity, but in terms of the olympics they make good sense.
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They could at least add Dolphins and Seals to the acts. That would give them some flair.
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