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• Both men's and women's 10 member team tug of war. Strength, rhythm, and technique.
• Both men and women arm wrestling.
I am glad to see softball for women and baseball for men back. But baseball will always have that problem we had with hockey this past Winter Olympics as the NHL didn't allow it's players to skip their season and participate in the Olympics. That especially hurt Canada and the USA. Probably Canada more so than anyone as they produce the highest percentage of professional hockey players. Canada created hockey to begin with.
Baseball has such a strong summer professional season, you won't be able to get the world's best baseball players. From all over the baseball playing world, they will be busy and under contract during the summer games to their major league team.
But if you've got curling in the Winter Olympics, you can surely have arm wrestling which is much more physically strenuous.
Tug of war would really get people's nationalistic spirit going. Each country pitting 10 of their strongest most fit people against the best of the rest of the world. If you've ever participated in one, you know how physical it is. 60 seconds and a person with outstanding athletic conditioning is completely wiped out. Teams would probably compete every other day to give their muscles time to recover.
Surfing seems like it will be tough to pull off. The actual competition will have to be at an ocean beach capable of producing great waves, so it may be held quite a distance from the other Olympic events. For instance, in the USA if a city in the eastern half gets the Olympics, the Atlantic Coast is just mediocre as far as surfing. That would need to be done in California or Hawaii.
Rock climbing will also be a location and logistics challenge. In the USA there are some Applachain areas very good for rock climbing but out west in the Rocky Mountains, there are limitless possibilities for rock climbing. And what about rock climbers slipping and falling to their deaths, especially if they do freestyle?
I definitely say yes to skateboarding. I'm sure there will be a skateboard event very similar to the skiing halfpipe. But the falls will be on concrete. Ouch!
Will golf be back?
Eliminate: trampoline
..and seriously, curling seems kind of silly. It could go too.
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The events that I think should be excluded are the equestrian events.
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I wanna see ping pong!
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tae kwon do (which is a worthless martial art.) and judo, which is a semi-useless martial art.
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•Surfing seems like it will be tough to pull off. The actual competition will have to be at an ocean beach capable of producing great waves, so it may be held quite a distance from the other Olympic events. For instance, in the USA if a city in the eastern half gets the Olympics, the Atlantic Coast is just mediocre as far as surfing. That would need to be done in California or Hawaii.
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A lot of people are pushing to get MMA into the Olympics.
You can’t truly call yourself peaceful unless you are capable of violence. If you’re not capable of violence, you’re not peaceful. You’re harmless.
You can’t truly call yourself peaceful unless you are capable of violence. If you’re not capable of violence, you’re not peaceful. You’re harmless.
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Wow you give your opinion as if its true and informed or even worse generally accepted. As somebody who has done Tae Kwon Do I can reassure you that despite your lack of enthusiasm for it, it happens to be one of the most powerful styles of martial arts and I've seen and done most. It's also ingrained into the culture of an entire country. No need to be offensive just because you're bored.
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Do they currently have mountain biking? cause a mountain bike race, or timed trials, would be awesome, as would BMX. and what about inline roller skating short track? or darts (the curling of the summer olympics). ROLLER DERBY!
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Haha...
Finally... someone wants to debate me on fighting!!
Most powerful styles of martial arts? You have to be joking.
I would love to see a Tae Kwon Do "expert" try and fight a wrestler. TKD only works if your opponent is playing by the same rules. It's a cheesy point-fighting martial art that has almost zero applicability when it comes to actual fighting.
Please excuse me if I'm not "reassured" by your claims. I'll be waiting on pins and needles to hear about the next time you actually win a fight using Tae Kwon Do....
If you want to continue this line of discussion, then I suggest that you learn a bit more about actual fighting beyond your latest cardio kickboxing class.
Haha... "powerful"?? That's awesome. Please let me know... does all your knowledge of fighting come from 1980s action movies?
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Do they currently have mountain biking? cause a mountain bike race, or timed trials, would be awesome, as would BMX. and what about inline roller skating short track?
I'd really love to see inline roller skating short and long track. Quote by Magical_felix
All martial arts are like that though. They only work if everyone follows the rules. A wrestler would fuck themselves up if attempting to grapple someone on the street. Like paisa fighting would win in that instance. Like someone’s primo would just kick the wrestler in the head. Honestly, TKD’s ability to land a sucker kick in some random confrontation might take out a wrestler before the wrestler even knows a fight is happening. In Bruce Lee’s book about fighting he states that the number one thing to do in a real fight is to kick in the balls and gouge out your opponent’s eyes. Both of which are illegal in any type of competitive fighting.
Wrestlers tend to shoot for legs and a lot of the time the opponent is able to step back and avoid this attack. If the rules didn’t prohibit the wrestlers opponent to kick the brains out of his head while he’s on the ground the fight would be over pretty quickly. If anything MMA rules protect wrestlers more than other fighters.
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Old school MMA actually allowed soccer kicks and head stomps. Those prevent Jiu Jitsu specialists from constantly pulling guard, which is why most MMA fighters actually favor them. The general public just doesn't feel comfortable with head kicks on the ground.
I would love to see one TKD specialist try and defend a takedown from even a high school wrestler....
Now if the TKD fighter had some wrestling and could defend a takedown, then he/she might have a chance.
If you're talking about cheap shots and groin strikes, eye gouges, etc... then it's a different issue. And TKD would probably do a lot worse in those situations than they would a controlled fighting environment. It's just not a martial art that lends itself to actual fighting situations. I did karate for 10 years and I feel karate is quite bad when it comes to actual fighting.
And Tae Kwon Do is far worse that karate.
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