Olympic event removal

greasedscotsman
greasedscotsman Posts: 6,962
edited August 2012 in The cake stop
Simple question, what Olympic event would you remove from the games so we can have more cycling? Which event doesn't deserve to be there. Is it something like football or tennis as the World Cup and Wimbledon are bigger more important in those sports. Or should it be something like gymnastics or synco' swimming, as they aren't really sports! :wink:
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  • rick_chasey
    rick_chasey Posts: 75,661
    Any horse related sports.
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  • sungod
    sungod Posts: 17,345
    edited August 2012
    no one else uses the velodrome, so at least for track, there's no need to move anyone else out

    it was the uci+ioc trying to crimp gb's chances that cut the amount of cycling, so i think some fresh faces/attitudes there would be best, either that or apply the one entry per country rule to all individual sports - can you imagine the howls of protest from swimming and athletics!

    but we're still giving the rest a sound thrashing, so it'll be interesting to see what they try next

    imho for road it'd be nice to have bigger teams and have a stage race, or at least result criteria changed to encourage racing rather than the negative riding we had in the men's road race

    wrt horsey 'sports', i was amazed at the horse prices being quoted by the showjumping set yesterday, millions or quid, it puts gb's cheap bikes into perspective
    my bike - faster than god's and twice as shiny
  • estampida
    estampida Posts: 1,008
    road racing

    the tdf is enough
  • Alain Quay
    Alain Quay Posts: 534
    Rick Chasey wrote:
    Any horse related sports.

    Or at least the horse should get a medal.

    matt
  • CiB
    CiB Posts: 6,098
    Swimming. There are too many golds on offer that seem to go to the same people with the ability to swim similar distances with slightly different arm-movements. Lob a lot of the swimming out and see how well USA do in the medal tables without them.

    Then remove sports where the pinnacle isn't the Olympics, so tennis, football and so on. But not cycle road racing obviously.
  • WheelieBad
    WheelieBad Posts: 43
    I don't mind things like football and tennis in the Olympics. What I don't get is the equestrian nonsense. Especially the dressage, like wtf?
  • MichaelW
    MichaelW Posts: 2,164
    Olympic horses don't slouch around watching TV, scoffing curries and generally being lard-arrses. They live on a strict vegetarian diet with tough daily exercise and sleep in sheds with no central heating. There is no fooling around with lady horses , even in the clubs and bars of Newmarket. Horses sacrifice so much to make it to the Olympics, they are a role model for all of us. I want to be a horse if I grow up.
  • capt_slog
    capt_slog Posts: 3,973
    They were advertising the para-olympics yesterday on BBC. There's a bit where a horse trotted past, I was surprised to see that it had all it's legs.


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  • bobtbuilder
    bobtbuilder Posts: 1,537
    Any sport where team event is simply the same as the individual event with the competitors scores added together.

    Archery for example. Keep the individual but lose the team events where the result is simply decided by adding 2 or 3 individual scores together.

    This wouldn't apply to sports such as team gymnastics where you have a pool of 5 gymnasts of which 4 (?) compete on each piece of apparatus and then the lowest score is dropped.

    Make sense? :)
  • edhornby
    edhornby Posts: 1,780
    I am cynical about any sport that involves a panel of judges awarding a score, but that's all gymnastics and boxing and all the horsey things and synchro swimming and diving and potentially powerlifting....

    a lot of the pressure is because of the ever expanding size of the athlete's village, they need to house them onsite so multiple events by one participant isn't a problem, multiple athletes from the same country is

    I would get rid of synchro swimming and rhythmic gymnastics, and no way would I allow flippin golf into the olympics, nothing citius or altius or fortius about it
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  • Jez mon
    Jez mon Posts: 3,809
    BMX
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  • Pross
    Pross Posts: 43,463
    CiB wrote:
    Swimming. There are too many golds on offer that seem to go to the same people with the ability to swim similar distances with slightly different arm-movements. Lob a lot of the swimming out and see how well USA do in the medal tables without them.

    Then remove sports where the pinnacle isn't the Olympics, so tennis, football and so on. But not cycle road racing obviously.

    This. Any event where one person can win 7 medals has too many similar events. I would also ditch the football. If I had to get rid of a cycling event it would be BMX followed by MTB and bring back the TTT and a few extra track events.
  • snoopsmydogg
    snoopsmydogg Posts: 1,110
    Rick Chasey wrote:
    Any horse related sports.

    ^^^ this
    WheelieBad wrote:
    What I don't get is the equestrian nonsense. Especially the dressage, like wtf?

    ^^^ and this. Dressage really wtf is it about? a horse walking around a circuit ffs. even dogs do that and they dont have an owner sitting on top of them keeping control.
  • rick_chasey
    rick_chasey Posts: 75,661
    Pross wrote:
    CiB wrote:
    Swimming. There are too many golds on offer that seem to go to the same people with the ability to swim similar distances with slightly different arm-movements. Lob a lot of the swimming out and see how well USA do in the medal tables without them.

    Then remove sports where the pinnacle isn't the Olympics, so tennis, football and so on. But not cycle road racing obviously.

    This. Any event where one person can win 7 medals has too many similar events. I would also ditch the football. If I had to get rid of a cycling event it would be BMX followed by MTB and bring back the TTT and a few extra track events.

    Get rid of the olmypic Keiren.

    It's nothing like the Keiren is supposed to be, and it's full of exactly the same people who compete the 2 up sprint.

    Bring the Kilo back.
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  • Pross
    Pross Posts: 43,463
    WheelieBad wrote:
    I don't mind things like football and tennis in the Olympics. What I don't get is the equestrian nonsense. Especially the dressage, like wtf?

    I can only guess you've never tried riding a horse? It's easy to criticise something you've never tried. Other events will need more strength, fitness and stamina from the (human) participants but there is an element of all those things plus training an animal to a high degree in all of them and then adding in a large amount of skill and courage. Try doing a sport where you break your neck and still come back to win an Olympic gold.

    I'm not a fan of dressage but it is a very subtle skill that I think only those who understand horses can really appreciate. Possibly not an Olympic sport in its own right especially as it forms part of the 3 day event.
  • edhornby
    edhornby Posts: 1,780
    I think all the horse events should start with a Le Mans style start - line up all the horses at one end of a field, make all the horseists run and the quickest gets first pick of the horses, that way it's not about the richest person owning the best horse :-) the tactics would be interesting, do you go for the quickest horse or your own that you know you can control.... the jamaicans could enter usain bolt and a donkey and that would really mix it up :D
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  • keef66
    keef66 Posts: 13,123
    "There is no fooling around with lady horses , even in the clubs and bars of Newmarket."

    Couple of weeks ago one tried to get in to the Turkish restaurant...

    http://www.racingpost.com/news/horse-ra ... t7DaysNews
  • daviesee
    daviesee Posts: 6,386
    As someone else said on the other thread....

    Any sport where the Olympics is not the ultimate reward.

    Road cycling, tennis, football..... and especially golf.
    None of the above should be taken seriously, and certainly not personally.
  • Pross
    Pross Posts: 43,463
    edhornby wrote:
    I think all the horse events should start with a Le Mans style start - line up all the horses at one end of a field, make all the horseists run and the quickest gets first pick of the horses, that way it's not about the richest person owning the best horse :-) the tactics would be interesting, do you go for the quickest horse or your own that you know you can control.... the jamaicans could enter usain bolt and a donkey and that would really mix it up :D

    I know that's tongue in cheek but it's another bit of misunderstanding that the riders all own their horses, many of them ride horses owned by people who don't compete. One of the 3 day event horses was owned by a bloke who owns a load of racehorses.
  • capt_slog
    capt_slog Posts: 3,973
    keef66 wrote:
    "There is no fooling around with lady horses , even in the clubs and bars of Newmarket."

    Couple of weeks ago one tried to get in to the Turkish restaurant...

    http://www.racingpost.com/news/horse-ra ... t7DaysNews

    Fcuking horses! How anything that doesn't come to a stop when you fall off it is allowed on the road is a mystery to me.


    +1 for the BMX too. Seems to be there so a chav can ride a bike.

    I was disappointed to hear that the wind-surfing was being dropped though, it seems very unfair on them considering that there are so many other sailing classes.


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  • CiB
    CiB Posts: 6,098
    Capt Slog wrote:
    Fcuking horses! How anything that doesn't come to a stop when you fall off it is allowed on the road is a mystery to me.
    Superb. Take the rest of the morning off.

    :lol::lol::lol::lol:
  • dw300
    dw300 Posts: 1,642
    Any skill only sports. Any sports that you can't set a world record. Any tactical sport that doesn't have an athletic aspect (if there are any left after the omissions).

    Basically if it doesn't involve power and/or endurance as it's primary factor GTFO.

    Also .. if technology plays a part, like in cycling, all competitors must be given the same technology.

    I'd like to see sports like powerlifting in there, even assisted lifts (shirts and suits) as long as everyone had the same gear (no, not that type of gear).

    Maybe some sort of ultra-endurance events like a cycling Grand Tour or a 5 day foot race.

    Basically I want to see events where it the human body's limit that are being pushed.
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  • CiB
    CiB Posts: 6,098
    dw300 wrote:
    Basically I want to see events where it the human body's limit that are being pushed.

    Like this you mean? Link...
  • t.m.h.n.e.t
    t.m.h.n.e.t Posts: 2,265
    There's been an outbreak of Ennis Elbow
  • Cleat Eastwood
    Cleat Eastwood Posts: 7,508
    I'd ban crying.
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  • Wirral_paul
    Wirral_paul Posts: 2,476
    Synchronised swimming (as well as dressage!!). Seriously - how can synchronised swimming be classed as a sport!!
  • mfin
    mfin Posts: 6,729
    Chuck out Shooting, and bring in Darts, a much more inclusive sport... Id love to see the fancy-dressed up crowd cheering on Wolfie Adams for a Gold Medal... would be far more valid than Shootists or the aforementioned Berks on Horseback.

    As for throwing out things to make for more Cycling, no need really, there's enough cycling, and for more events drop the Omnium and use that track time.
  • jamm13dodger
    jamm13dodger Posts: 106
    mfin wrote:
    Chuck out Shooting, and bring in Darts, a much more inclusive sport... Id love to see the fancy-dressed up crowd cheering on Wolfie Adams for a Gold Medal... would be far more valid than Shootists or the aforementioned Berks on Horseback.

    As for throwing out things to make for more Cycling, no need really, there's enough cycling, and for more events drop the Omnium and use that track time.

    Shooting is not the upper class sport I suspect you think it is. If you live in the country you should know this. If you're anywhere near Cambridge I'll happily take you out to shoot some clay pigeons one day ;)
  • xixang
    xixang Posts: 235
    remove all the "games". in other words football, tennis, badminton, hockey, beach and regular volleyball, basketball etc. None of these are true sports, merely games. Leave all swimming, cycling, gymnastics, weightlifting, sailing, rowing, canoing, fencing, track and field etc. fastest, longest, highest, furthest, heaviest, strongest etc
  • random man
    random man Posts: 1,518
    xixang wrote:
    remove all the "games". in other words football, tennis, badminton, hockey, beach and regular volleyball, basketball etc. None of these are true sports, merely games. Leave all swimming, cycling, gymnastics, weightlifting, sailing, rowing, canoing, fencing, track and field etc. fastest, longest, highest, furthest, heaviest, strongest etc

    Totally agree.

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