More obscure Olympic sports.
I didn’t know that there were so many bizarre, unconventional sports in the Olympics. I didn’t know that you could be a world class trampoliner or is it trampolinest? It seems like such a niche sport, worthless in any way that could be perceived as relevant to anything else in the world. Ping-Pong? Or as the ping-pong athletes refer to as table tennis. Just because it has a grown up name doesn’t mean that it’s a real sport. Sure it’s entertaining, but is it really a sport? What about badminton? How about synchronized swimming or synchronized diving. Just because it is almost interesting on its own, doesn’t mean that adding a partner makes it doubly interesting. I actually saw an exhibition of synchronized trampolining. Are you serious? What’s next, synchronized javelin or synchronized weight lifting? All I’m saying is that just because a few people play an obscure sport that hasn’t been relevant in 100 years, doesn’t mean that I have to watch the best athletes in those sports compete for the gold. How about if the IOC picked some sports that people might enjoy watching or at least have a modern day following. If they can’t do that, why not just bring back jousting or maybe build a giant gladiator stadium in the middle of London for the 2012 games and let the athletes fight lions and tigers. I’d love to see the Russian rythmic gymnastic team fight a bear.
