Strange Olympic events

DB Cooper 23

Which Olympic events do you find strange and think that they shouldn’t be in the Olympics at all?

And what sports/ events which are not currently in the Olympics do you thing should be included?

Immaculate Pasta

Bring back the tug of war :cool:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tug_of_war_at_the_Summer_Olympics

hairyprincess

Piss blasting should definitely be included

CardBordWindow

Football and Golf (being reinstated for the 2016 games)
They both have their own competitions held every year, and professionals will be on the teams for both sports. Don't really see the point unless it was completely amateur, like Olympic boxing.

Duggy747

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im invisible

I think i remember a pice on the news about the last time the olympics were in london, an irish girl got a medal for painting, i guess it used to be kinda like the community games

DB Cooper 23

I think diving is fine, but who thought up the idea of synchronized diving?

padd b1975

Dancing around with a piece of ribbon on a stick is an event.
Think its called rythimic gymnastics.

holystungun9

Duggy747 wrote: »

A Wankathon

There's a tax for that.

Pherekydes

Solo sychronized swimming? I mean WTF? Also, Synchronized swimming contravenes the Olympic charter in that it's restricted to one gender.

Soccer. Most of the world's best players won't be there and won't care.

Race Walking: cheat as carefully as possible.

Jimoslimos

Anything relying on the subjective opinion of judges, Gymnastics, Diving, etc.,

Sports where an animal does most of the work - show jumping

Team sports

Sports where an Olympic medal isn't the ultimate pinnacle of achievement, e.g. Golf, Tennis, Soccer.

90% of the swimming events could be culled. There isn't separate medals for running the 100m sideways or backwards. Why should there be entire events dedicated to useless swimming strokes, butterfly, backstroke, breast.

I'll think of more.....

Gee Bag

That event where a young wan in a leotard skips around twirling two ribbons

foxyboxer

CardBordWindow wrote: »

Football and Golf (being reinstated for the 2016 games)
They both have their own competitions held every year, and professionals will be on the teams for both sports. Don't really see the point unless it was completely amateur, like Olympic boxing.

There's something not right when you see multi-millionaire professionals such as Federer or Nadal winning Olympic Gold. At least give amateurs a chance of glory.

El Weirdo

Jimoslimos wrote: »

Why should there be entire events dedicated to useless swimming strokes, butterfly, backstroke, breast.

What 'til you get older and the breast stroke is the only stroke you're able to do. Useless, my hole.

Also, "breast".

Jimoslimos

El Weirdo wrote: »

What 'til you get older and the breast stroke is the only stroke you're able to do. Useless, my hole.

I'd rather drown than be slowing people down in the pool!

Davidth88

Duggy747 wrote: »

A Wankathon

Isn't that already there ( Woman's Beach Volleyball )

I don't like sports that are ' objective ' ie have to be judged , because this means it's up to personal opinion

So , diving , syncronised swimming things like that.

DB Cooper 23

The long jump is fine but the triple jump is a strange one. Who decided that they needed an extra jumping event? Why not a double jump then or quadruple jump?

foxyboxer

Duggy747 wrote: »

A Wankathon

Immaculate Pasta wrote: »

Bring back the tug of war :cool:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tug_of_war_at_the_Summer_Olympics

Makes sense.

dr.bollocko

Man sports. Like Art.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jack_Butler_Yeats

Unusually, Yeats holds the distinction of being Ireland's first medalist at the Olympic Games in the wake of creation of the Irish Free State. At the 1924 Summer Olympics in Paris, Yeats' painting The Liffey Swim won a silver medal in the arts and culture segment of the Games. In the competition records the painting is simply entitled Swimming