Thank you for this thread.
I've been thinking about starting something similar every day since the Olympics started. Now I have somewhere other than my living room in which to rant.
The very concept of race walking just makes no sense whatsoever. Same goes for all the stupid swimming strokes - only freestyle matters. Backstroke, breaststroke, butterfly: they're the aquatic equivalents of race walking. If you want to race from point A to point B, you use the fastest method. That's how races work.
And having just watched Tae-kwon-do for the first time, it's gotta go too. I have no idea what scores a point. It just seems random.
And synchro swimming. Just freaking weird really. Sure it's athletic, but it's got that Jon Benet Ramsay beauty pageant creepiness to it.
And BMX. Looks like Mariokart. Get a real bike I say.
Really they could chop this thing down to about 50% of its current size.
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