Why do you care?
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Shard@lemmy.world 1 year agoWhat pisses me off is the break dancing is considered an Olympic sport.
- FiskFisk33@startrek.website 1 year ago- Shard@lemmy.world 1 year ago- It exemplifies everything wrong with the modern corrupt Olympics committee. - Pandering to whoever can bribe them the most and threatening those who won’t cosy up to them, even long established sports that have been in the Olympics since the Greeks. - FiskFisk33@startrek.website 1 year ago- fair enough! 
 
 
- TexMexBazooka@lemm.ee 1 year ago- Why? - Shard@lemmy.world 1 year ago- This is everything wrong with the Olympic committee. - They will put the games in whichever country bribes them most and they will put any “sports” in so long as they a wined and dined. - They will happily threaten sports that have been in the games since the greeks and bend and twist them till they’re unrecognizable. 
 
sigmaklimgrindset@sopuli.xyz 1 year ago
Eh, painting and chess used to be Olympic sports. Shooting/air rifle still is. Break dancing requires more physicality than all of those.
I don’t particularly care about gatekeeping what activities that are added/subtracted to the Olympics, as long as it’s competitive and entertaining to watch.
JackbyDev@programming.dev 1 year ago
What’s wrong with that lmao
sigmaklimgrindset@sopuli.xyz 1 year ago
Nothing, that’s what I’m trying to say. All the “sports” I listed have some sort of skill expression that can be judged. Why is break dancing less worthy? Should skateboarding also not have been included? Why is making a horse hop around to music considered a “real sport”?
It’s all arbitrary.
Honytawk@lemmy.zip 1 year ago
With the amount of physical activity needed, it can hardly be seen as a sport, let alone an Olympic one.
JackbyDev@programming.dev 1 year ago
This is a stupid opinion. Go try competitive shooting and tell me how you do.
Bertuccio@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Try shooting a high quality air rifle.