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sigmaklimgrindset@sopuli.xyz 3 months agoEh, 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 3 months ago
What’s wrong with that lmao
sigmaklimgrindset@sopuli.xyz 3 months 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 3 months ago
With the amount of physical activity needed, it can hardly be seen as a sport, let alone an Olympic one.
JackbyDev@programming.dev 3 months ago
This is a stupid opinion. Go try competitive shooting and tell me how you do.
Bertuccio@lemmy.world 3 months ago
Try shooting a high quality air rifle.