2 Olympic Sports I'd Like Introduced

[SpaceMonkey]

here are 3

Rugby league 7s
Union 9s
Twenty 20 cricket

Union 9s?! Why, nobody much plays it. 7s would make way more sense. League Sevens has no chance for the same reason, it's never played seriously.

 

[simmo1]

They should keep the Olympics to traditional and athletic events, IMO. Athletics, Swimming, Cycling, Gymnastics, Archery, Shooting, Weighlifting etc. Get rid of sports like hockey, soccer, tennis, sailing etc.

 

[griffo346]

Golf
Pin the tail on the donkey
2 up

 

[gho]

The olympics needs to remove events like Judo (did anyone see that, it has to be the sh*ttest sport ever), Horse events (equestrian), pretend events like BMX and roller skating.

They should bring Tug-o-war, that would be awesome. If they want a horse event they should add polo.

 

[Razor]

They should bring Tug-o-war, that would be awesome.

That was in the Olympics from 1900-1920.

It's been part of the World Games since they started in 1981. Great Britain totally dominate the sport.

 

[Razor]

What I'd like to see is the suggestion that's been made before but rejected by the IOC - increase the games an extra week.

Have the full swimming, athletics and cycling programs. At the moment, events that they participate in at the World Champs aren't included.

* Introduce karate, jujutsu, squash, ten-pin bowling, lawn bowls, bando, billiards, jump rope, footvolley, Roller hockey, Roller Speed Skating, womens boxing, acrobatics, cheerleading
* Re-introduce rope-climbing, golf, lacrosse

* Get rid of Synchronised diving, synchronised swimming, team fencing events, all equestrian except individual jumping, flat-water canoeing/kayaking, womens rowing, all sailing except windsurfing.

Forgot to put powerlifting in the sports to introduce.

 

[magpie_man]

squash and touch rugby.

 

[dragonfire]

squash and touch would be excellent. i actually thought squash was already included and surprised it isnt.

 

[NPK]

Introduce:
Squash
Powerlifting (I think it's in the Paralympics)
Throwing quadrathlon (javelin, hammer, shot put, discus)

 

[SpaceMonkey]

Forgot to put powerlifting in the sports to introduce.

Given the problems the Olympics has with drug cheats already that's not gonna happen. A shame, becasue I dig powerlifting (though not as much as Olympic style lifting).

 

[Bulldog Force]

In this picture below, all I say is replace Trickett with Liesel Jones

 

[JoeD]

There's already too many swimming events, definitely don't need more. If anything there should be less swimming. Drop soccer and tennis, if the best players aren't involved/don't care there is no point. Drop anything starting with synchro.

 

[Bulldog Force]

There's already too many swimming events, definitely don't need more. If anything there should be less swimming. Drop soccer and tennis, if the best players aren't involved/don't care there is no point. Drop anything starting with synchro.

Actually I think the mens 1500 should be the last swimming event as it rightly is, but i'd like to see a mixed relay as a warm-up to that match... just like the Mixed Double before the Major mens final at the Australian Open. Swimming is my favourite Olympic event. I'd love to see more of it.

 

[blain]

second that, no more swimming.

i cant believe they put table tennis there before squash.

i would have 20/20 there but thats based on my love of cricket. though it would work, there are easily enough teams world wide. u/23 soccer is a joke i reckon.

 

[Bulldog Force]

second that, no more swimming.

i cant believe they put table tennis there before squash.

i would have 20/20 there but thats based on my love of cricket. though it would work, there are easily enough teams world wide. u/23 soccer is a joke i reckon.

Well the problem is that the soccer season has started at the same time the Olympics start. The teams will not risk their best players for an Olympic comp. They save that for the World Cup. If something happened to Lionel Messi, you can imagine the outrage at Barcelona.

 

[blain]

no i dont care about that, i just think its stupid having age groups at the olympics. just get rid of it completely.

 

[Razor]

There's already too many swimming events, definitely don't need more. If anything there should be less swimming. Drop soccer and tennis, if the best players aren't involved/don't care there is no point. Drop anything starting with synchro.

Most of the top players in tennis play. It's just that since it's best-of-3 until the final, upsets are far more likely to occur.

The Olympics aren't tennis most important event, but neither is it for road cyclists where the Tour de France is by far the most important for them. Any basketballer would also rather win the NBA than the Olympics, baseballer the World Series than the Olympics(although baseball is being dumped from the games).

And there should be more swimming, however no mixed relay. They should add the 50m events for back/breast/fly and the 800m for men/1500m for women - have the full programme that they compete in at the world champs. There should be up to 3 swimmers per country. It used to be but was reduced to 2 twice due to US & Australian getting 1-2-3 in too many events. That won't happen a lot anymore.

 

[JoeD]

Do we need 4 different 100m swimming events? Shouldn't it just be the fastest to the other end? Drop baseball and basketball as well for the same reason i gave above. There should only be 2 sailing events - laser and boardsailing.

 

[Razor]

Do we need 4 different 100m swimming events? Shouldn't it just be the fastest to the other end?

If you say that, then what about athletics

Short distance-running, hurdles
At long distance - running and walking

And then throwing - lots of different styles of throwing - hammer, shot put, javelin, discus. No different to the different styles of swimming.

 

[hellteam]

Should have amateur golf.... that would be good.