Sport Climbing in the Olympics?
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Sport climbing on Olympics short list to replace wrestling: |
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Interesting that "roller sports" will involve multiple events, but climbing is limited to sport climbing only. I had always figured the bid would involve a lead, bouldering, and speed event. |
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Interesting that, in the first link, the picture of "sport climbing" is actually bouldering. |
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I'd prefer to keep our sport out of Olympic hands,,nothing but screwed up things can happen to what we consider real climbing. With wrestling being eliminated, I'd guess boxing could be right behind. The norm seems to be taking any violence out of the sports....so who knows if karate and any martial arts may be gone too someday. Sucks that both winter and summer have stooped to the TV ratings desires, to pick sports that are not Olympic' traditional at all. We need to instill pride in the Historic Olympics, not adjust it to attract youth interest these days. My rant on the Olympics,,,,,part 1 if I continue ...... |
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No sport in the Olympics is "real", but many of the sports are derived from something "real". Softball, roller sports, wakeboarding? Those are invented as games to pass time. In that sense, I think the exclusion of a sport as fundamental as wrestling would be a travesty; it goes way beyond tradition. In the same vein, climbing, although devoid of a long organized competitive history, is much more deserving as an Olympic sport than activities that started as mere games. But ratings be damned. |
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Woodchuck ATC wrote:...so who knows if karate and any martial arts may be gone too someday.FYI, Karate is not in the Olympics, and seems to be way ahead of climbing for inclusion in 2020. |
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camhead wrote: FYI, Karate is not in the Olympics, and seems to be way ahead of climbing for inclusion in 2020.Sorry, dont know my martial arts,,is it TaiKwanDo that is in already? All the fighting sports are in jeopardy of being removed I fear.... |
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I, for one, am completely pissed that they are removing wrestling from the Olympics. |
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J. Thompson wrote:I, for one, am completely pissed that they are removing wrestling from the Olympics. Wrestling was not only one of the longest running Olympic events(one of the original?) it is, argueably, the highest point of most wrestlers careers. Sport climbing? Roller sports? The IOC is giving into the "extreme" sports crap. Eliminating wrestling from the Olympics is one more example of the IOC selling out. joshI think it sucks too. In reality they could keep it around and just forget any extra expenses for it like to TV coverage, give the ball sniffing boys a place to sniff crotch and sweat all over each other in private. If the fans want to film/record and show it great but dont get rid of it. Maybe add womens mud wresting too. |
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J. Thompson wrote:I, for one, am completely pissed that they are removing wrestling from the Olympics. Wrestling was not only one of the longest running Olympic events(one of the original?) it is, argueably, the highest point of most wrestlers careers. Sport climbing? Roller sports? The IOC is giving into the "extreme" sports crap. Eliminating wrestling from the Olympics is one more example of the IOC selling out. joshHow can they dump one of the most classical sports there is!?! Mind-boggling stupid. Even the poorest country can afford to send a wrestler. And none of those sports listed qualify as adequate replacements, including climbing. Without Olympic wrestling, we would never have heard of Alexander Karelin, arguably the most dominant athlete ever. |
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I would love to see climbing as an Olympic sport, however if I had to choose between climbing and wrestling I would vote wrestling hands down. I wrestled for over 15 years through school and it is one of the only sports that is truly about out maneuvering and out powering another person. It is a sport that is really only understood if you have competed in it. |
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dougie2008 wrote:...it is one of the only sports that is truly about out maneuvering and out powering another person.Does this explain wrestling........or sport climbing?? |
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Mike Wysuph wrote: Does this explain wrestling........or sport climbing??Wrestling and sometimes gym climbing when people are inconsiderate of the route you are climbing and you have to chase them off route. |
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In reference to another recent thread....if climbing goes olympic, here comes steroids/performance enhancing drugs in climbing. |
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Wrestling oughta stay. No reason to replace it with any of these sports... Wrestling IS the original Olympic event. |
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They should add roller derby instead of some bullshit rollerblade racing. |
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I thought the reason they came up with the X Games was for all of the alternative and extreme sports - not that climbing really falls into either of those categories. |
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Mike Lane wrote:They should add roller derby instead of some bullshit rollerblade racing.Word. If Im going to watch yet another olympic sport where people go in circles, I want to at least see some hip checking. |