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Friday, August 15, 2008

Keep it - Ditch It

My current list of Summer Olympic Sports to keep and ditch:

Ditch anything with subjective scoring or change the scoring to an objective system - thus eliminate gymnastics, diving, synchro anything, trampoline

Ditch sports where the athlete is an animal - equestrian.

One the possible cut - relay races of any type - the weak links get medals for the hard work of more talented athletes.

Possible cuts - anything that does not show relatively direct faster, stronger, higher characterisitics: team games like softball and baseball, soccer, field hockey (and yes ice hockey in the winter), shooting, archery, basketball, sailing, water polo.

Keep - track and field, badminton and tennis (I shocked myself at this one, boxing, kayaking, rowing, canoeing, cycling, wrestling, weightlifting, fencing (except team events), taekwondo and judo, table tennise, swimming.

Add: darts (if we have archery...it is only logical), golf, and not sure what else based on the above criteria.

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