WD wrote on 08/02/12 at 16:31:58:I hoped they were kidding when trampoline came up as an actual event. What's next, skateboarding?
There's already the World Cup, so soccer should get dropped. Women's boxing strike anybody else as odd? Badminton is NOT a sport. Beach volleyball... only if I'm at the clothing optional beach. Since I don't go to regular ones.
Canoe and kayak? alternate transportation, maybe, but not sports.
So far, I'd rather watch paint dry. At least I'd know my bike was ready to reassemble.
Well every game has a world cup of sorts. All athletics, aquatics, gymnastics etc ... that well probably will leave curling as the only sport.
Then as an asian I have to tell you the 2 sports americans have no grasp of as to how hard it is are table tennis - aka ping pong and badminton. The western world got tired of being beaten black and blue by the chinese, koreans, japanese and Indonesians they regulated table tennis by making the ball bigger.
BTW the archery competition well that itself is a common enough sport in the US the place it was held @ - Lords cricket grounds. Really really like yankee stadium to the british, Indians, and the rest of the common wealth.
Anyway some sports are a bit stupid, trampoline ... yes, but the rest are 100% actual sports, just ones that aren't played in the US.
Soccer is a good one, definitely needs to be @ the olymipics.
Cool.
Srinath.