Serbia wrote:My favorite Olympic sport is, and has always been, men's ice hockey, particularly when they started letting the pros participate. It's the only sport I really care about in all the Olympics.
this.
it also happens to be the only olympic sport that wasn't ruined as a result of letting the pros play, as the playing field was still pretty level, perhaps more so.
only reason to watch the summers for me is that michelle jenneke.
You might enjoy Women's Beach Volleyball.
while i can appreciate it's appeal, 2/3 of the women are 6'+ amazons with asses that are too big for my tastes. they are almost always wearing sunglasses and those stupid little cycling caps, too. but the worst for me is the constant "high fiveing" after EVERY play, it has literally lost all meaning. plus, i don't really feel it should be an olympic sport. perhaps permanent demonstration status but an actual olympic event? nah.
Well, there's a separate video games Olympics being run alongside Rio, and a lot of WoW nerds desperate to see their pastime being taken seriously by other people for some reason.
Army of GOD wrote:I never particularly cared about the olympics
most of the events in the olympics aren't sports anyways. The only ones I'd consider a sport in the current summer games are soccer, basketball and tennis
I would consider those (+ rugby) a selection of sports that shouldn't be in the Olympics.
Also sorry Canada, you won't beat Australia in the womans 7s.
tennis, soccer and rugby, definitely not because they already have premiere international competitions.
the FIBA World Cup is as important as the turd I took this morning...I think olympic basketball and olympic hockey are the two popular team sport competitions I'd keep in the olympics in general
The Soccer is distinctly different as Olympic soccer is Under-23, with 3 geezers allowed per team.
riskllama wrote:
DoomYoshi wrote:
riskllama wrote:
Serbia wrote:My favorite Olympic sport is, and has always been, men's ice hockey, particularly when they started letting the pros participate. It's the only sport I really care about in all the Olympics.
this.
it also happens to be the only olympic sport that wasn't ruined as a result of letting the pros play, as the playing field was still pretty level, perhaps more so.
only reason to watch the summers for me is that michelle jenneke.
You might enjoy Women's Beach Volleyball.
while i can appreciate it's appeal, 2/3 of the women are 6'+ amazons with asses that are too big for my tastes. they are almost always wearing sunglasses and those stupid little cycling caps, too. but the worst for me is the constant "high fiveing" after EVERY play, it has literally lost all meaning. plus, i don't really feel it should be an olympic sport. perhaps permanent demonstration status but an actual olympic event? nah.
You like Hockey but hate high fives?
If I had one hockey wish, I would get rid of the high fives before I chose Toronto to be good.
DoomYoshi wrote:Every scoring play and that's enough to ruin goals.
Luckily for you, only Vancouver and New Jersey scored fewer goals than the Leafs did last year. In fact, did I just figure out why you're a Leafs fan? Very few goals = fewer goal celebrations = a happy Yoshi??? IT'S ALL COMING TOGETHER!
Olympics should be the pinnacle of all sporting endeavors, unless there is a world cup that is bigger, or if the playing field is so narrow (eg. Man's basketball, gumboot throwing, etc.) that it doesn't justify international competition.
I would include everything, even if that means one day we will see esports in the Olympics (I don't support it personally, but who am I to say what the right interpretation of the word sport is, it's loose enough to include anything competitive that isn't sleeping).
But the under-23 shit, and pros not coming shit has to go. If the best arent at the Olympics then the sport shouldn't be there.
ps: I am an olympic-aholic; I was up early this morning rooting for AZB (wherever the f*ck that is) against the Chinese archer in the first elimination round - I love the competition and appreciate the skill and dedication of the athletes, no matter what weird shit they are competing in!
I go to the gym to justify my mockery of fat people.
Actually, in all honesty I did know roughly what it stood for (and broadly where Azerbaijan is located: russia-ish), but couldn't be bothered googling the spelling (and I thought it may have been a -stan but couldn't remember).
I go to the gym to justify my mockery of fat people.
