I know what you might be thinking and I’m thinking the same thing, ‘Does the world really need another sport added to the Olympic roster?’ but the answer should be a resounding ‘YES’.
Golf is, after all, a legitimate sport, giving it a clear advantage over half the current so-called ‘sports’ accepted by the Olympics.
Ping-pong, which is not a sport, is a miniature version of tennis, which is a sport.
If we’re forced to accept ping-pong as a legitimate sport, then why don’t we allow other miniature versions of other sports into the Olympics as well? What about foosball? It looks a lot like a tiny version of soccer to me and is a hell of a lot more fun to play than ping-pong.
Ping-pong has no business in the Olympics, but I do believe it has more of a right to be there than dressage or gymnastics, because ping-pong, while still not a sport in my opinion, is at least a ‘Finish Line’ sport.
What’s a ‘Finish Line’ sport you ask? There are two kinds of sports in the Olympics: ‘Judged’ sports and ‘Finish Line’ sports.
Examples of Finish Line sports include: running, swimming, fencing, archery, soccer and pretty much everything else.
In a finish line sport someone crosses the finish line first, or jumps the highest or scores the most points.
In my opinion this is the essence of a real sport, two teams or players competing for the win.
Examples of Judged sports include: diving, dressage, all gymnastics, sometimes boxing if a decision is required, synchronized swimming and a plethora of other lame sports.
In a judged sport there is no clear winner and a third party decides which of the contestants did the best.
In case you missed this prestigious sport it involves a horse, a jockey and prancing.
How can this ‘Sport’ get Olympic recognition while other real sports, such as golf, are completely ignored? What else will the Olympics Committee approve over golf? I can only imagine it will be some stupid judged sport where moronic women prance around with hula-hoops like cheerleaders on steroids.
Soccer is more of a religion than sport to half the world.
Some say we shouldn’t have pros compete if golf becomes an Olympic sport.
The ancient Olympians practiced only finish line sports like, wrestling, chariot races, boxing that didn’t require a decision, and something called the pankration.
A sport very much like modern day mixed martial arts cages fights, but these were not light weight matches.
Would these guys understand any of our judged sports? I realize golf isn’t the manliest of sports.
When compared to the ancient Olympics, every modern sport would invariably come up short.
All I’m saying is at least golf is a finish line sport which makes it more inline with the original idea of the ancient Olympics and therefore, in my opinion, more deserving of a spot on the current Olympics event list.
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