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GIF of the breakdancing lady at the olympics with the caption "Me explaining mass spectrometry"
What pisses me off is the break dancing is considered an Olympic sport.
Eh, painting and chess used to be Olympic sports. Shooting/air rifle still is. Break dancing requires more physicality than all of those.
I don't particularly care about gatekeeping what activities are added/subtracted to the Olympics, as long as it's competitive and entertaining to watch.
What's wrong with that lmao
Nothing, that's what I'm trying to say. All the "sports" I listed have some sort of skill expression that can be judged. Why is break dancing less worthy? Should skateboarding also not have been included? Why is making a horse hop around to music considered a "real sport"?
It's all arbitrary.
With the amount of physical activity needed, it can hardly be seen as a sport, let alone an Olympic one.
This is a stupid opinion. Go try competitive shooting and tell me how you do.
Try shooting a high quality air rifle.
Why do you care?
It exemplifies everything wrong with the modern corrupt Olympics committee.
Pandering to whoever can bribe them the most and threatening those who won't cosy up to them, even long established sports that have been in the Olympics since the Greeks.
fair enough!
Why?
This is everything wrong with the Olympic committee.
They will put the games in whichever country bribes them most and they will put any "sports" in so long as they a wined and dined.
They will happily threaten sports that have been in the games since the greeks and bend and twist them till they're unrecognizable.