Paris 2024 Olympics

[HCZ_Reborn]

It is and it comes round to excluding boxing if you are determining that subjective judgement excludes the sport

For me sport is physical competition and therefore technically break dancing or whatever else can fit into that mould.

It’s I guess always going to be a balance between not being too exclusive and letting silly stuff count as Olympic event


In some ways I’m inclined to be more for stuff like skateboarding, climbing etc than I am football, tennis and golf being involved. Mainly because they are sports that stand up in their own rights. Let Athletes and other events have their day for the fortnight.

[Niall_Quinn]

[Letters]

In some ways I’m inclined to be more for stuff like skateboarding, climbing etc than I am football, tennis and golf being involved. Mainly because they are sports that stand up in their own rights. Let Athletes and other events have their day for the fortnight.

At least in climbing there's objective measures of who won - with speed climbing it's a race, there's the other type our bloke got a gold in where you have to get as high as you can without falling.
Debatable whether it's a sport really but there's a lot of grey areas.

You're right about boxing, to me it's clearly a sport but you're right in that it's judged. Difficult, innit?
I guess if horse dancing and dancing in water (synchro) can be sports then why not human dancing (to which my answer would be none of them should be in!)

[Letters]

The Madison be like:

[Letters]

Bronze in the 1500m. Good run

[Letters]

Bronze in the 4x400 relay. Another good run.

High jump went to penalties, New Zealand bloke won

[Letters]

And bronze for the ladies too.
Good effort, I thought she was going to get run out of the medals but she held on.

[Mac76]

High jump went to penalties, New Zealand bloke won

I got the sense it was the Yank who pushed for the jump-off instead of their both getting golds (as heppened in the last Olympics)

That went well

[Letters]

I got the sense it was the Yank who pushed for the jump-off instead of their both getting golds (as heppened in the last Olympics)

That went well

Yeah. I got that sense too. So I was glad the New Zealand bloke won.
Although the US bloke did show a sign to the camera afterwards which said "InJesusNameIJump"!