Rusty Messages: 1184 Registered: May 2018 Location: Kansas City Missouri
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Breakdancing? What next, juggling? Golf is an event these days too. Gimme a break. I'd rather bowing be an event.
I like the track and field too. That was the mainstay of the original Olympic games. I bet women's gymnastics will be televised a lot too. I also like some of the unglamorous events like weight lifting and wrestling. They tend to get little coverage. Probably breakdancing will edge them out in coverage.
gofar99 Messages: 1947 Registered: May 2010 Location: Southern Arizona
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They should add bean bag toss and pick up sticks. They really ought to get back to the core events from years gone by. I can't see anyone from Olympus doing break dancing.
They should add bean bag toss and pick up sticks. They really ought to get back to the core events from years gone by. I can't see anyone from Olympus doing break dancing.
And Tic Tac Toe!
I deliver medicine and I was at a rehab facility one day which had a giant chess board with all the pieces set up on the asphalt.
This needs to happen in Paris.
(I wish I could have played a round with someone. That would have so neat.)
Rusty Messages: 1184 Registered: May 2018 Location: Kansas City Missouri
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Two great track & field races that deserve note. The 1500 meter race that American Cole Hocker won all on guts and will power. Boxed in on the inside lane and losing stride temporarily he shifts into overdrive and beats the world champion for a taste of his own glory for old glory. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2sb32uxUO10
Then the mens 400 meter final has another American, Quincy Hall, (who went to H.S. around my neck of the woods) that dug deep down into his reserves and toughed out a win that looked impossible from where he was after the final turn. Great moments in sporting history. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QkmcEL-C25I
The Olympics always has those moments. Just pure human desire and perseverance.
More like lowlights. Check the woman from Australia. Maybe I'm getting old, but it looked ridiculous. Dancing is a fun activity, but making it competitive doesn't turn it into a sport.
I read somewhere that this is the last year for break dancing in the Olympics.
Rusty Messages: 1184 Registered: May 2018 Location: Kansas City Missouri
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It's idiotic I think too. But then. They made 'golf' into an event for the summer games a few games or so back. It's about as strenuous a sport like bowling or billiards are. Maybe they can introduce lawn darts or bean bag toss in L.A. four years from now.
The French kind of had a weird closing ceremony what little I saw. Music wise. Ominous sounding orchestration that seemed, well, weird.
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They really ought to get back to the core events from years gone by. I can't see anyone from Olympus doing break dancing.
