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sigmaklimgrindset@sopuli.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ 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 ⁨week⁩ ago

Shooting/air rifle still is.

What’s wrong with that lmao

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- sigmaklimgrindset@sopuli.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ 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 ⁨week⁩ 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 ⁨week⁩ ago
    This is a stupid opinion. Go try competitive shooting and tell me how you do.
    
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  - Bertuccio@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago
    Try shooting a high quality air rifle.
    
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