IdleRich
IdleRich
The thing with Olympics is that ninety percent of the events are total bullshit.
Yeah they should have the basic track events -100m, 200m etc even though the distances are fairly arbitrary they make sense well enough and the winners are genuine athletes who are the best at what they do. Distance throwing events I suppose I will allow, hurdles yeah... high jump and long jump sure but pole vaulting is dubious and triple jump is stupid, cross that out straight away. Walking races should obviously be got rid of.... in fact how did anyone even think of them in the first place? Some sort of joke between committee members that didn't get picked up on until too late maybe?
Swimming, fine, but you should only have free-style in each distance. Having 400m freestryle and 400m breast stroke is just pointless, that is the same as having 400m and 400m hopping race. Each race should be freestyle, you need to get to the end as fast as you can, if breast stroke is your best then fine, go for it, but the people you're racing pick their best style and if their front crawl is faster then tough titties.
Synchronised swimming is a complete joke. In fact synchronised anything should go. I am almost tempted to remove anything which needs a judge to decide who has won but I think I will allow the gymnastics as it is kinda hallowed by time.
In football the teams have to have players who are under 23... what the fuck? Why? That is already a joke, but then you are allowed some exceptions? It's just ludicrous. It's supposed to be "faster, higher, further" or something isn't it? Not faster higher further but under 23 apart for a few who aren't.... I just cannot believe that there can be anybody in the entire fucking world who thinks that make sense. Either have football or don't, but no bizarre fudges like that. To generalise that, based partly on the "reasoning" behind it, I think that there is a big question mark over all sports where the Olympics isn't the main international event for that sport... or at least one of the main ones. Like tennis for example, there are four tennis majors but the Olympics isn't one of them. A sprinter winning an olympic gold will say "This was my dream since I took up the sport" but a tennis player will say "Well, you know, it's a nice little bonus to win this" - olympics is supposed to mean more than that isn't it?
Horse dancing is shit it shouldn't exist at all, never mind in the Olympics.
They should really whittle down the yachting stuff obviously. Especially those ones where only four countries compete cos no other countries have any players, cos they have never heard of it. Stuff with stupidly high barriers to entry like that should all be got rid of - like we know Usain Bolt was the fastest man in the world, but is that guy who wins the obscure boat race thing truly the greatest? He's just the best of those who have tried it, but seeing as 99 percent of the world haven't had a go, it's a fair bet that if half of them got the chance to try it, somebody would be better than him, so is that guy really a worthy olympic medalist? No he is not.
And there are loads and loads more that should definitely be removed. And many more than that which probably ought to go, where there is a debate to be had at the very least. And I explain this every four years... and then it comes round again and I turn on the telly, and horse dancing still exists! Sometimes it really feels as though noone is listening.
