Longevity is no excuse for retaining a sport. In addition to football it's high time rubbish like Dressage and Showjumping was consigned to the dustbin, especially when we see the sort of stuff going on behind the scenes like the Dujardin horsewhipping.
It is indeed the case, and its based on FIFA's greed more than anything else. After repressing the Olympics for decades, they loosened up the rules in the 80s when everyone except World Cup-players were allowed to compete. With the 1988 Seoul tournament being a massive success with great football and plenty of goals, and the 1990 World Cup being labelled as the most boring World Cup of all times, FIFA became paranoid and made sure football at the Olympics wouldn't compete with their own cash cow.
Steady, that's my job.Completely, 100% disagree, but not going to waste time arguing about it. You'd just go on and on and on.
Disagree Hans
Disagree.
I watched a minute of the Final and within that minute I heard the national anthems of both teams played at the beginning (which is not something that is done by any other sport at the Olympics), followed by the crowd booing a player that was injured. That felt very un-Olympics and so I turned off. It may have been 5-3 but I just don’t need to see it. Football gets more than enough airtime.
But Athletics has their world championships, european championships and diamond league!
But the Olympics is number 1
Ok, so whenever a sport reaches a certain level of popularity outside the Olympics, it should be removed from the games?
You're making a very sound case that football, tennis and basketball should be removed from the Olympics
There are enough exceptions to the "Olympics should only be for sports where it's the pinnacle of that sport" line that I don't think it's a strong argument.You're making a very sound case that football, tennis and basketball should be removed from the Olympics
People would probably be fine with it, for sure. People in Europe/US that is.You're making a very sound case that football, tennis and basketball should be removed from the Olympics
Yup and thats the case with others as well - regardless of their attempts to argue for the binning the biggest sport from the biggest sporting event.
Two quick things:Yup and thats the case with others as well - regardless of their attempts to argue for the binning the biggest sport from the biggest sporting event.
You guys like to watch rowing because you can win in it. You don't like team sports at the olympics because you're shite at every single one of them.
Elsewhere its different, and the Olympics are a global phenomenon.
Its unlikely to be revamped as the new Commonwealth Games where England beats the shit out of impoverished colonies in various sports played by three nations.
They're also the only ones with any sort of enthusiasm for hosting the Olympics, so we're already halfway there!
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The Djokovic scenes was indeed beautiful to see. Sure, it was mainly about him not winning that particular trophy before, but still you could see the power in it.
