Wtf ... Thats An Olympic Sport ... You Are Joking !

[David48]

Who has ever played "handball".Lol.

Handball is played a lot in Europe.

Just did a bit of research on it and <deleted> ... there is an organised Scottish competition!

Scottish Handball Men's League 2011/12

This season five teams will compete for the League Title:

• Dundee Handball Club
  
• Edinburgh Handball Club
  
• EK82 Handball Club
  
• Glasgow Handball Club
  
• Tryst 77 Handball Club
  

From Wiki

[David48]

Who has ever played "handball".Lol.

Me for one. Handball and Racquetball are quite popular and very good exercise.

As far as rowing being an Olympic sport, it's been in the games since 1986. So where has the OP been?

Not worrying about the wrong date (KeyserSoze01, I'm a bit dyslexic as well) and rowing is a great sport.

There is a Club on my local river not 5 klms from where I live.

But 4 men in a Kayak ... <deleted> ...

Any decent rapid would snap it in two.

For me ... it's an 'invented sport'

[David48]

Some former Olympic events:

Poodle clipping

Live pidgeon shooting

Tug-of-War

Fire fighting

Motorboat racing

Delivery van driving

http://www.11points...._Olympic_Sports

Wow. I had no idea they experimented with those sports.

Actually 'Tug-of-War' has some merit.

Team sport, test of strength and technique.

We did it school.

Just saying like.

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[Mosha]

Well it could get worse, one suggestion for future events is dancing, to me that's on a par with the winter olympic ice dancing. Speed skating and Ice hockey should be the only ones on ice.. I don't agree that animals should be allowed to assist in winning medals. It should all be about human physical effort using non living equipment.

[overherebc]

How about Fireball swinging as practised in Stonehaven on New Years Eve.

[GarryP]

Who has ever played "handball".Lol.

Me for one. Handball and Racquetball are quite popular and very good exercise.

As far as rowing being an Olympic sport, it's been in the games since 1986. So where has the OP been?

Not worrying about the wrong date (KeyserSoze01, I'm a bit dyslexic as well) and rowing is a great sport.

There is a Club on my local river not 5 klms from where I live.

But 4 men in a Kayak ... <deleted> ...

Any decent rapid would snap it in two.

For me ... it's an 'invented sport'

Aren't they all?

Edited August 8, 2012 by GarryP

[MrRed]

I know what my favorite to watch is ........

I was thinking what would the Thai's actually do well at if they could invent there own sports.....Mmmmm

Mosquito swatting

pestle bashing

Motorcycle stunts

Squatting

walking slowly race

Texting

Eating

Snake fighting

I am sure there are more......

Thai Boxing will feature soon no doubt.

Edited August 8, 2012 by MrRed

[overherebc]

Well it could get worse, one suggestion for future events is dancing, to me that's on a par with the winter olympic ice dancing. Speed skating and Ice hockey should be the only ones on ice.. I don't agree that animals should be allowed to assist in winning medals. It should all be about human physical effort using non living equipment.

Dancing, maybe, if they could wear, as Peter Sellers once called it on the Goon show, Gownless Evening Straps

[impulse]

Dressage. No idea

To advertise ridiculously expensive stuff to folks that can afford to understand what dressage is all about....

Disclaimer- I ain't one of them, though a high school GF has made a career out of it. Oh, and I don't own a Rolex, Omega, nor a Ferrari, either.

Edited August 10, 2012 by impulse

[Cobalt60]

Grown men on childrens bikes going fast over bumps ??

[Thaddeus]

Catching the Javelin and Heading the Shot would be a crowd pleaser.

[overherebc]

Catching the Javelin and Heading the Shot would be a crowd pleaser.

Already in the Irish Olympics.

Next German Olympics I'm going to enter the 50 litres, usually held in Munich.

[David48]

Catching the Javelin and Heading the Shot would be a crowd pleaser.

If you liked that ... you'll love this.

A free plug for theblether's thread over in the Pub Forum.

[zzdocxx]

How about that Thai sport where it is kind of like badminton or volleyball, but they use their feet on a little ball?

A few years back I saw some interesting videos etc. about it.

Can't think of the name of it now.

[MrRed]

How about that Thai sport where it is kind of like badminton or volleyball, but they use their feet on a little ball?

A few years back I saw some interesting videos etc. about it.

Can't think of the name of it now.

Sepak Takraw

[zzdocxx]

Thanks, now I can google it up again.

I seem to recall there are two versions, one that the monks play for recreation, and one that is highly competitive, played on a court.

[NowImEasy]

Maybe the IOC can do away with dressage, 4 man kayaking and downhill mountain biking and bring back baseball and softball. These are sports played by half the kids in the US, and is very popular in Canada, Japan, China (softball), Central America, Korea, Australia (softball again), and is played more in Europe than Dressage, for sure.. I believe these sports were removed by anti-American envy. But I may be biased on that subject.

[Bagwan]

Naff and don't see the point - dressage and the floor exercises in the gymnastics ... why don't they stick some obstacles to jump over or something to knock over to make it more fun?

Kiddy sports - ping pong, playground scrapping (wrestling) and jumping in the pool at the same time to make a big splash (synchronized diving)

Some more ideas to make the Olympics more fun:

1. Sharks in the swimming pool.

2. People with apples above their heads for the archery.

3. Live chicks (baby chickens) instead of shuttlecocks.

4. Quick sand for beach volleyball.

5. Midgets lifting fat people in the weightlifting.

6. A backwards cycling road race.

7. Blindfolded synchronized javelin/discus/hammer throwing.

8. Horses undressing their riders.

You could have included underwater Sumo wrestling and nude leapfrog. Over 80's bath chair racing? Wellington boot hurling? Leaping nuns would draw the crowds, too. And what of the ancient sport of gurning? One or two from Soi 6 would only have to turn up to guarantee a Gold Medal for Thailand.

Please leave the women's beach volleyball alone. It brings great pleasure to Benny Hill, J Peasemould Gruntfuttock and I.

[MEGALITHIC]

As a martial art, TAE KWON DO is a complete joke. It shouldn't even be considered a martial art. Real martial arts, such as Muay Thai and Karate, use all limbs as weapons of attack and the participants at least try to belt each other with some kind of purpose. In TAE KWON DO all you've got is a couple of prancing ninnies trying to tap each other with kicks that wouldn't knock the skin off a rice pudding.

[Cobalt60]

As a martial art, TAE KWON DO is a complete joke. It shouldn't even be considered a martial art. Real martial arts, such as Muay Thai and Karate, use all limbs as weapons of attack and the participants at least try to belt each other with some kind of purpose. In TAE KWON DO all you've got is a couple of prancing ninnies trying to tap each other with kicks that wouldn't knock the skin off a rice pudding.

555 agreed, Olympic leg waving in pyjamas

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[zydeco]

Maybe the IOC can do away with dressage, 4 man kayaking and downhill mountain biking and bring back baseball and softball. These are sports played by half the kids in the US, and is very popular in Canada, Japan, China (softball), Central America, Korea, Australia (softball again), and is played more in Europe than Dressage, for sure.. I believe these sports were removed by anti-American envy. But I may be biased on that subject.

If it was anti-Americanism, it wasn't very smart anti-Americanism, because I don't think we even got a medal the last time around. Didn't Japan, Mexico, and Taiwan win the baseball medals. I remember how embarrassing it was. That said, I wish baseball and softball was back too. If they are adding rugby, they should at least add a sport which is so much of the fabric of life in the Western hemisphere and in Japan.

[overherebc]

Dressage. No idea

To advertise ridiculously expensive stuff to folks that can afford to understand what dressage is all about....

Disclaimer- I ain't one of them, though a high school GF has made a career out of it. Oh, and I don't own a Rolex, Omega, nor a Ferrari, either.

Beginnings of Dressage came from the cavalry. Controlling the horse using mainly knees and toes and heels and one hand to leave the other hand free for sword use in close quarter fighting.

Still not sure how it came to be an olympic sport though.

[steelepulse]

Those air rifle events sure make for fascinating and spine tingling excitement along with the 10 days of archery competitions. I was so unhappy when they switched from these great events to boring track and field. Let's get rid of track and field!

[Old Croc]

Dressage. No idea

To advertise ridiculously expensive stuff to folks that can afford to understand what dressage is all about....

Disclaimer- I ain't one of them, though a high school GF has made a career out of it. Oh, and I don't own a Rolex, Omega, nor a Ferrari, either.

Beginnings of Dressage came from the cavalry. Controlling the horse using mainly knees and toes and heels and one hand to leave the other hand free for sword use in close quarter fighting.

Still not sure how it came to be an olympic sport though.

It's basically horse training and I believe equestrian should have no place in the Olympics.

Medals are won by rich and titled people who can afford to buy the best horseflesh. I believe members of British, European and Saudi royal families have won medals in these events as well as rich graziers from Australia and rich, upper crust Americans and British. It's not a sport countries like Rwanda, East Timor nor Thailand could ever aspire to.

The fact that several older riders have medalled, shows that the horse is the real athelete

Apart from anything with the word sychronized in it, I would like to see the end of the Toy Toss event.

Don't get me wrong, in the right place I like to see beautiful girls in skimpy costumes dance around the floor, but not as a sport in the Olympics where they compete by throwing ribbons, hoops and balls into the air!

Edited August 13, 2012 by Old Croc

[StreetCowboy]

Personally, I am quite happy for sports that I have no interest in to be included in the Olympics. I'd be quite happy to lose the tennis and the soccer, because I see too much of those already anyway, but I don't feel the need to denigrate those that participate or enjoy those sports. I am sure some people would like to see darts, arm-wrestling, and of course the 10m BMX climbing - skeet - diving included. Ferreting, and whippet-racing would also be good sports to include, I think.

SC

[overherebc]

Dressage. No idea

To advertise ridiculously expensive stuff to folks that can afford to understand what dressage is all about....

Disclaimer- I ain't one of them, though a high school GF has made a career out of it. Oh, and I don't own a Rolex, Omega, nor a Ferrari, either.

Beginnings of Dressage came from the cavalry. Controlling the horse using mainly knees and toes and heels and one hand to leave the other hand free for sword use in close quarter fighting.

Still not sure how it came to be an olympic sport though.

It's basically horse training and I believe equestrian should have no place in the Olympics.

Medals are won by rich and titled people who can afford to buy the best horseflesh. I believe members of British, European and Saudi royal families have won medals in these events as well as rich graziers from Australia and rich, upper crust Americans and British. It's not a sport countries like Rwanda, East Timor nor Thailand could ever aspire to.

The fact that several older riders have medalled, shows that the horse is the real athelete

Apart from anything with the word sychronized in it, I would like to see the end of the Toy Toss event.

Don't get me wrong, in the right place I like to see beautiful girls in skimpy costumes dance around the floor, but not as a sport in the Olympics where they compete by throwing ribbons, hoops and balls into the air!

True,

Olympic sports should be competition of person against person proving the skill, stamina and strength of the individual or team against team without reliance of 25,000 pounds worth of high tech' equipment, and as you say prancing around with ribbons and fancy painted balls.

[BookMan]

A late entry...it might have been covered..

the 50k Walk. <deleted>! It really is random who gets disqualified and who doesn't.

[Payboy]

Dressage. No idea

To advertise ridiculously expensive stuff to folks that can afford to understand what dressage is all about....

Disclaimer- I ain't one of them, though a high school GF has made a career out of it. Oh, and I don't own a Rolex, Omega, nor a Ferrari, either.

Beginnings of Dressage came from the cavalry. Controlling the horse using mainly knees and toes and heels and one hand to leave the other hand free for sword use in close quarter fighting.

Still not sure how it came to be an olympic sport though.

Some snobs with connections in the IOC decided they wanted some medals for the trophy case at their riding club.

[Old Croc]

A late entry...it might have been covered..

the 50k Walk. <deleted>! It really is random who gets disqualified and who doesn't.

Yes, very random. I had similar thoughts as I watched that event the other day.

The super slow-mo cameras show that everyone breaks the rules about always having one foot on the ground.

[BookMan]

A late entry...it might have been covered..

the 50k Walk. <deleted>! It really is random who gets disqualified and who doesn't.

Yes, very random. I had similar thoughts as I watched that event the other day.

The super slow-mo cameras show that everyone breaks the rules about always having one foot on the ground.

Exactly. It is a lottery who gets pinged and who doesn't. Can well remember the Aussie female who go pinged, while leading, coming into the stadium. Was that Sydney?