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• 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.

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  • JackbyDev@programming.dev ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Shooting/air rifle still is.

    What’s wrong with that lmao

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    • 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.

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    • 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.

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      • JackbyDev@programming.dev ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        This is a stupid opinion. Go try competitive shooting and tell me how you do.

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      • Bertuccio@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        Try shooting a high quality air rifle.

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• FiskFisk33@startrek.website ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Why do you care?

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  • 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.

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    • FiskFisk33@startrek.website ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      fair enough!

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• TexMexBazooka@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Why?

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  • 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.

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