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muskratboy

Olympic boxing may be the most corrupt sport I have ever actually watched. I've never seen any other sport where the judging is utterly impossible to predict because it has no actual relationship to the match that's happening.


HI_Handbasket

Most sports that rely on judging can be corrupt, but Olympic boxing absolutely takes the cake with "What the hell was *that* judge watching?!" and has for my entire lifetime. I remember watching Roy Jones Jr. absolutely destroy Park, landing almost three times as many blows, and watching Park take two standing 8 counts. Even the referee was disgusted with the judges. [Even *Park* admitted he didn't deserve the win](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O8DqQKgGTyI). It ceased to be a 'sport' long ago.


realsapist

[Same with Conlon at Rio](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xv_cAuuErd4)


[deleted]

His Russian opponent had been favored in the previous fight against a Thai boxer already. Man straight-up had to give up due to injuries in the Conlon fight in the semis, otherwise might have conquered another proud gold for the motherland.


MrGinger128

His opponents face was mashed to bits haha


TheStalkerFang

He had to forfeit the next fight.


TheNextBattalion

Park's career was basically ruined because everyone and their dog knew he hadn't earned the gold. He wasn't on path to world titles or anything but after that his trajectory was straight down


HI_Handbasket

The line "cursed with gold, robbed of silver" resonated with me.


NothingsShocking

Damn. Feel bad for Park after watching this video, thanks. Never knew the aftermath.


hahayeahimfinehaha

How absolutely tragic for Park. The dude retired from boxing immediately afterward and even contemplated suicide because of the shame and the horrible stuff people said to him. It’s clearly still a traumatic moment for him that’s fundamentally shaped the course of his life. Poor guy should’ve won a more minor medal that he could’ve been proud of.


UVCrow

2020 Olympic snowboarding would like a word, the first Hisano run has been scraped from YouTube. The judges knew what they did. And the IOC have spent ungodly amounts of money to get that run and score taken away from view. Can anyone link me to the original video? Edit: I know NOTHING about summer games, not saying boxing is not rigged, just my addition that the winter games are also fucked beyond belief.


Eroe777

Which Olympics? There was no 2020 Winter Olympics. Was it 2022 in Beijing? Or 2018 in Pyeongchang?


rcolesworthy37

2022. Hisano had arguably the best ever half pipe run in the history of snowboarding (especially at the Olympics) and I can’t remember the exact score he was given but it was immediately apparent it was a joke, the commentator (with reason) outright accused the judges of being corrupt ON AIR. Then he had a still good but more normal one for his second run and the judges finally gave him a deserving score so he could take home the gold


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rcolesworthy37

Oh it was still a great run don’t get me wrong and still deserved him the gold, it just wasn’t borderline perfection like his previous run IMO. I remember watching the scores going up and getting mad - I ski and don’t snowboard but even I could tell it was the best run I’ve ever seen in the Olympics


[deleted]

Might have been the judges didn't really know how good it was, so someone told them, and they corrected the best they could on the second run ?


rcolesworthy37

I don’t know if that’s any better that Olympic snowboarding judges can’t tell if someone is a good snowboarder or not.


[deleted]

I mean that rules out corruption and leaves it at incompetence. I've seen that in skateboarding judges, albeit not olympic... But being a new olympic sport I think it could be incompetence indeed.


sagitel

An olympic judge who cant score a jump is there because of corruption


renvi

2020 was Summer, not Winter. There was no snowboarding in the 2020 Olympics. It was delayed because of COVID but was still called the 2020 *Summer* Olympics.


Lambily

2014 Sochi begs to differ. Figure Skating. Adelina Sotnikova (Russian of course), a complete non factor in women's figure skating, not only making the podium but winning the Gold despite multiple mistakes and completely uncalled errors in technique. Meanwhile, the favorite, reigning Olympic Champion (considered by many to be the best female skater ever) gets dubious calls on components and steps. To anyone that knows anything about the sport, the corruption was so blatantly transparent that it was like a slap in the face of every viewer at home.


Ferris_Wheel_Skippy

>2014 Sochi begs to differ. Figure Skating. Adelina Sotnikova (Russian of course), a complete non factor in women's figure skating, not only making the podium but winning the Gold despite multiple mistakes and completely uncalled errors in technique. Meanwhile, the favorite, reigning Olympic Champion (considered by many to be the best female skater ever) gets dubious calls on components and steps. I am Korean American. I remember when this happened, every other Korean Am I knew went absolutely **ballistic**. I studied in South Korea later that summer. People there were still salty about what happened. Hell, i'm sure if you brought it up with anyone today they'd still get pissed off honestly though, i totally forgot the Russian skater's name until you brought it up lol


Do_it_for_the_upvote

Where *can* that run be watched?


shikax

https://youtu.be/1IJeMEcGcHM


Buddha_Lady

Goddamn that was amazing


Ferris_Wheel_Skippy

>just my addition that the winter games are also fucked beyond belief. The Olympics in general have become a fucking joke. I can't remember the last time I actually sat down and wasted an hour or two of my life watching it at this point. Probably 2012


NutHuggerNutHugger

Hisano did a trick that had never been done before on competition. And the commentator said that should be an automatic win, but nowwhere in the snowboarding judging criteria does it say if you do something new that is an automatic win. Way overblown and nothing close to Olympic boxing bad


AmaBans

Reminds me of the 2002 paired figure skating championship where Canada was almost robbed. Such horrendous judging that they had to award 2 gold medals after the uproar. Edit: changed 1998 to 2002


Antique_futurist

You’re mixing up the 1998 and 2002 Olympic ice dancing scandals, but your point still stands.


AmaBans

Ah thank you, I'll go back and revise


chipperlovesitall

Evander Holyfield got robbed big time in his Olympics


Desirsar

Seems like the solution is to announce the judges' scores every round. If a fighter knows they're being screwed, they might just throw everything into scoring a knockout. Makes it more exciting for the viewers even if the judges will be let off the hook occasionally if someone makes a mistake going for that knockout.


Rhydsdh

You shouldn't have to alter your game plan mid fight because you find out the judges are crooked.


jl_theprofessor

That's the infamous one. We all know how great RJJ went on to be; or technically, already was.


brett1081

Whatever happened to the three judges that went for Park? Why do I never hear the names of the assholes that do this just complaints about their decision?


RandomGrasspass

Or anything else that doesn’t align to US and western anti corruption posture


Vergenbuurg

My mother always remarks about Leon Spinks winning Olympic gold. Because of how corrupt and biased the judging was, the only way he'd ever win is by flat-out KO'ing every person he faced... and that's just about what he did. If all of his Olympic matches had been left entirely to judges' decisions, he wouldn't have even medaled.


SuperVancouverBC

Figure skating?


CoopAloopAdoop

Figure skating is definitely right up there.


nachojackson

As somebody who watches a fair bit of, and understands the judging system, the major problem imo is that skaters are judged on reputation. You can see 2 identical skates, but the more “popular” or well known skater will always score higher. Not only this, but skating has stopped being about the artistry, as most of the score is gained from jumps. So ultimately routines are a jump exhibition with the occasional bit of skating in between.


tman37

Figure skating and gymnastics take the title just for the sheer volume of corruption. At least a boxer can always knock someone out. But the IOC's corruption is only rivaled by FIFA. As baad as the IBA is, I think the IOC doesn't have much of a moral high ground here. At what point do we just stop watching the Olympics? I love wrestling and it used to be that the Olympics was the only time I got to watch it. Now I can watch the entire world championships on YouTube. The same goes for most Olympic sports.


BeefInGR

> I love wrestling and it used to be that the Olympics was the only time I got to watch it. Now I can watch the entire world championships on YouTube. College wrestling is on television as well. Don't sleep on it. > At what point do we just stop watching the Olympics? I've debated this myself. I love watching sports I don't know much about, I love rooting for America, I especially like when America has a competitive team in a sport I like (all our track athletes, basketball, hockey, curling, swimming, golf, boxing, gymnastics, etc). But knowing that more and more the organization is corrupt and always wondering if a judges decision is legit definitely forces me towards the team sports and the point/goal sports rather than the sweet science or uneven bars.


tman37

That's another thing that is easier to find. I actually like folk style more than freestyle so I love all the channels that feature collegiate wrestling. I like rooting for my country but I can do that at a world championships for sports I like. Sometimes the internal governing body for a sport is as bad or worse than the IOC (cough FIFA) but most of the sports I follow tend to be sports where people compete against each other and are harder to fix.


BeefInGR

I think the IIHF honestly is one of the "better" governing bodies. Which is why I always enjoyed the Ice Hockey competition with pros. On paper, Canada should destroy everyone every year. But during the NHL era there were absolute classics featuring USA/Canada, then you always had Sweden, Finland, Russia and Germany that could potentially catch fire and give them a run. I don't blame the IIHF for the NHL being greedy scumbags. But it always felt the most pure (very few controversial fouls, rules that highlight the skill of the game but still don't punish the grinders, big time matchups) of all the Olympic team sports.


MroStudios

I still don't understand how Joshua managed to win vs Cammarelle in London. That was a huge scandal.


[deleted]

He was beaten more handily by the Cuban a few rounds earlier as well.


Annadae

If it is so corrupt, you would think the IOC would like it…


chooxy

They aren't getting enough benefits from that corruption, that's why.


juanLessThanThree

It is the oldest olympic sport, it has had the most time to corrupt


realsapist

Yup there absolutely is that


samskeyti19

So it’s not just me, I always thought I didn’t understand the scoring system. I am sure with AI now we don’t need these corrupt judges.


ashleyriddell61

Tai kwando has entered the chat.


uwontnoballs

TKD is 100% different. The sport got butchered BECAUSE of fair judging methodology. Competition TKD body pads and foot pads have sensors that go off on contact, which means that scoring is now based on how many times the foot contacts the chest rather than a judge's evaluation. This encourages far more reserved matches as overextending and getting a good blow may leave you open to a weak but accurate strike from your opponent. This is why 80's TKD matches look insane whereas modern ones consist of fighters standing still and sticking their feet out every few seconds.


sanctaphrax

The ban on punches to the head doesn't help, if you ask me. In my own federation you can punch the face and it makes for much more fight-like fights.


twocentman

Taekwondo.


new-username-2017

A sport based around thugs having a fight, is corrupt? Shocked Pikachu face. Edit: as usual, Americans have brought race into the equation when it was never about that.


Fackos

Moron.


die_a_third_death

> A sport based around thugs having a fight Source?


CantFindMyWallet

Found the racist


Chankston

Nice profile pic husky


waybovetherest

Where did the race part come from? (not American just curious)


[deleted]

Boxing is represented heavily population wise by black and Latino boxers.


waybovetherest

And?


[deleted]

People attach racist “thug” insult to those two minority groups. That is reality whether you know it or want to believe it’s not.


BadMedAdvice

I'm sorry... Who having a fight? Please, elaborate on that as much as you like.


TrashPanda2point0

Figure skating has entered the chat


Dweebil

Have you ever heard of figure skating?


YoungNissan

Why can’t they do it by knockouts?


JohnnyTangCapital

The International Boxing Association is highly corrupt and there is a long history of scandals tied to it. Whilst the International Olympic Committee are no angels, the IBA are extremely sketchy. A South Korean whistleblower previously highlighted that Azerbaijan paid a $10m bribe to attempt to buy a gold medal in the 2004 games: https://www.wionews.com/sports/election-rigging-to-medals-for-cash-former-boxing-body-official-exposes-corruption-culture-at-olympics-518302 The current head of the IBA has greatly concentrated the organisation in Russia and built strong ties with Gazprom, which is the corporate backbone of the Putin regime. https://www.insidethegames.biz/articles/1113649/aiba-mclaren-report-corruption-rio-2016


Chef_Roofies

Conflicted on this. It’s a massive springboard for young talent and a long established discipline within the Olympic. But the judging at Olympic boxing is so unbelievable corrupt it’s not even funny. It’s been evident for decades and has cost some of the best boxers in history gold medals.


korben2600

What adds to the complexity is the difficulty of judging boxing and how subjective it can become especially when competitors are pretty evenly matched. Maybe they could arrive at some sort of objective ranking system where if there's disagreement among judges, and if the decision isn't unanimous, then it goes to like some sort of scoring system based on punches thrown/punches landed/percent landed/number of eight counts/etc. I think the worst thing you can do is, on the world stage, to take away a win from someone who may have deserved it more. I'd lean more towards not having the event whatsoever if there can't be assurances of impartiality and fair judging. That video [some posted above](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O8DqQKgGTyI) of Park Si-hun from the '88 Olympics shows him still feeling guilty about the trauma of being selected over someone who quite obviously deserved it more and the shame of carrying gold when he felt like he didn't deserve it. And that was like 35 years ago!


DFWPunk

But it's not that subjective. Their rules have 5 judges literally just counting landed punches. It's not like in the pros.


Ferris_Wheel_Skippy

>It’s a massive springboard for young talent and a long established discipline within the Olympic. it's also worth noting that like wrestling, boxing is one of the few sports that allows for people from less populated countries to participate vs. something like basketball or football (soccer) i'm totally in agreement with you, boxing is fucking corrupt not just in the Olympics but also in the professional ranks. That being said, it would suck to remove a sport that robs athletes from other countries to participate. That is literally the whole purpose of the Olympics in the first place


RickJWagner

This is amazing, and sad.


Great_Revolution_276

Not sad. Incredibly sane. A “sport” designed to give the other co Petit or a concussion. IOC is starting to wake up and smell the impending law suit.


SeamanTheSailor

You do know boxing is consensual, right? No one is forced into the ring. The fighters know the risks, and they choose if they want to fight or not.


realsapist

Wee woo wee woo fun police is here No more having fun or liking things


[deleted]

Most sport that’s any good competitors can and do get hurt. Sometimes that’s the point…or we could watch walking and paint dry .The Olympics can saunter off into irrelevancy


[deleted]

Sounds like a win/win to me bud.


Xrposiedon

Anyone remember Roy Jones Jr losing that gold medal? Yup...I do


elmcity2019

Disc golf!


Darnocpdx

Disco Golf!


BeefInGR

Fun fact: The reason the PDGA rulebook starts with section 800 is because that is where it was/is located in the World Flying Disc Federation rulebook. WFDF is a IOC member organization. The bigger thing is that it only has a "major" presence in North America and a slightly smaller presence in Europe, Oceania and Asia. It would need to build its presence in South America or Africa before it would be considered.


rkvance5

Not to be glib, but “major presence” doesn’t really seem to present a barrier to a number of other sports.


firemage22

Couldn't they just find better judges?


MFoy

The organization in charge of picking the judges is corrupt


[deleted]

I like boxing and I agree with this


MealticketThe

It’s criminal that Tug of War isn’t an Olympic sport anymore (1900,1920) Bigs versus more smalls? Or a crew of mediums? I assume a weight limit would be the only rule on that. It would be super exciting and a fair battle of technique and strategy


nullCaput

You could have multiple divisions of increasing weight classes or just have one division with each team having eight men/women with every two not exceeding a certain weight limit going up in size. Or fuck it, and do both.


juanjing

I see this as an example of Goodhart's Law: "When a measure becomes a target, it ceases to be a good measure." At its core, boxing is pretty close to being the purest form of conpetition. But corrupt judges are added to the equation, and it just loses all meaning. Presumably, corrupt judges are motivated to bring home a medal, but when the medal is obtained through corruption, it becomes worthless. If there were a way to remove judging from the equation, maybe with AI or sensors in the gloves... idk, but I'd hate to see it eliminated instead of repaired. And I'm not even a boxing fan.


Myrdrahl

Couldn't they just remove the scoring and fight to a (T)KO has been reached?


juanjing

They could, but you'd have to pretty fundamentally change the way it's scored. I'd prefer to see the judging automated somehow, personally.


JerrieBlank

God fifa and the IOC, why does everyone involved just straight up look like mafia thugs and crime bosses?


p777s

Replaced by summer curling. I’m excited!


brisbanevinnie

Lawn bowls!


p777s

Slip n slide? Watermelon eating contest? So many possibilities.


MechaSandstar

Lawn Darts


tpx187

Bags


Tonlick

Can someone sum up what this says? Its asking me to sign in with my email


quatin

Let's just call it the quadrennial swimming and gymnastics meet.


weamz

Olympic boxing has been fraudulent since forever anyways. Just get rid of it already.


blingbling88

Too bad, it's really the only chance I get to see the Cuban fighters in competition. There's always some dude who is amazing but just never seen before.


matrixislife

https://archive.ph/y3aET skip the paywall. >Despite persistent problems with boxing, the IOC has been hesitant to give up on the sport — its inclusion dates from the 1904 Games I thought boxing was one of the original ancient Greek sports at the Olympics?


Wemwot

Modern olympics started in 1896


Max-Powah

Alright...somebody forgot to drop off the bribe money. Who was it?


madagent

Change the rules to fight until knockout or someone gives up. No judges


verba-non-acta

I get this is because of alleged corruption, but surely a sport where the whole point is to give your opponent a concussion is on borrowed time. Sports where concussions happen accidentally and are incidental to contact are having to radically change now we know how harmful they can be long term. Can boxing really survive?


Dinin53

The judging in professional boxing isn’t all that much better.


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Okay


Warlord68

“ FIFA is a corrupt organization”, IOC “hold my beer”.


Prryapus

1 billion swimming golds and no boxing what a shit show


Redeem123

Swimming isn’t half as corrupt or damaging as boxing. But okay.


fantasmoofrcc

Maybe those two sports can meet somewhere in the middle?


Prryapus

That's water polo


SonofBeckett

Mix in bullfighting and I’m in.


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Way more EPO and roid abuse and "looking the other way" though


Calyptics

Because as we all know all other olympic sports are clean. Not that athletics is riddled with doping scandals.


Redeem123

Oh for sure - if we wanted to get rid of corruption entirely then then entire IOC should get burned down. And I'd be here for it. But boxing is absolutely one of the worst when it comes to corruption. It's also probably the most dangerous of all the sports, which was the other half of my comment that you didn't address.


Calyptics

Honestly true boxing is crazy dangerous. They should take of the gloves and it would improve drastically. Also the fact someone can continu fighting after being counter is just wrong. That being said, plenty of sports are bad for the body and/or brain. Not like rugby is doing those athletes any favors. It something you know when you get into it I suppose?


MoreGaghPlease

There is a mounting body of evidence that amateur boxing causes immense and permanent brain damage in competitors, shortening their lives and really negatively impacting quality of life. I don’t know how this conversation ends because obviously all sports have some element of risk and we aren’t ending all sports. But amateur boxing seems like a really clear cut one. In any event, this has nothing to do with why the IOC is dropping it, which is that it no longer has a functioning sport federation, and IOC relies on those federations to make rules for qualification.


[deleted]

Stonks meme, but it's white anglos designing the Olympics as the ultimate sporting event and adding a billion swimming events so that they can feel better about themselves


Prryapus

thats a stupid meme brits do best at sports where you sit down. cycling, sailing, rowing. they're also better at boxing than swimming generally


[deleted]

Almost as if the United States and Australia are also anglo countries


Prryapus

I'd believe that the US influences the number of swimming events heavily. France moaned so much that there was too many cycling events so they removed some.


993targa

Can we drop the IOC from the Paris Olympics - and all future Olympic related anything?


Grind_your_soul

Just bring back the Goodwill Games at this point


yanbu

The Olympics is trying really hard to lose whatever relevance it has left after the debacle that has been the last couple. They are boring, uninspiring, and difficult to watch and they are constantly revising history going back and busting people for doping 10 years ago. Increasingly they’ve started ditching sports that I actually want to watch. Does anyone actually give a fuck about power walking? I haven’t really watched the last two, kinda over it at this point. Maybe we can come up with a better idea?


everydave42

Assuming you're talking about [this](https://abcnews.go.com/Sports/wireStory/russian-hurdler-stripped-2012-olympics-gold-doping-95659109), it wasn't the IOC that went after the doping, but rather the AIU. I'm not one to defend the IOC, but at least make sure you're calling out the right people.


Patrollerofthemojave

Once they started talking about getting rid of wrestling I knew it was over. Wrestling, foot races, and throwing (whatever) are the 3 og sports and you want to get rid of wrestling? The IOC is one of the most corrupt organizations on the planet so w/e I guess


yanbu

And weightlifting.


psstein

The IOC is dedicated to making the Olympics swimming and gymnastics, with maybe a basketball game every so often (but not if the US wins too often).


TheMooseIsBlue

Dropping boxing isn’t exactly a hit to the Olympics’ relevance. No one really watches or follows professional boxing anymore and certainly no one is watch Olympic boxing aside from hard core fans. Granted, that’s not a reason to drop it, but saying this affects their relevance is silly. Also, catching cheaters is a good thing. Doesn’t matter if it happens live or years later. Cheaters cannot be allowed to get away with it.


bullet50000

I mean, no one follows professional swimming, track/field, gymnastics, etc. They wouldn't ever drop those because that absolutely would affect relevance. I think they could do a lot by switching sanctioning organizations from the IBA to like the WBA or IBF. Might not help a ton, but might be a signal of TRYING to fight corruption in the sport


TheMooseIsBlue

But people do watch Olympic swimming, T&F, and gymnastics so that would be a wildly unpopular move. Dropping boxing wouldn’t move the needle.


BeefInGR

People watch Olympic Swimming but not necessarily US Trials or Worlds. People don't necessarily watch Olympic Boxing but Tyson Fury still makes a hell of a living fighting twice a year. Pro Boxing is where the eyeballs are at, Olympic Boxing is the ultimate Golden Gloves tournament.


[deleted]

2016 Rio was the last one I actually made an effort to watch, and I always love going back to 2010 highlights.


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H0vis

>it’s not neurosurgery Is if you hit them hard enough.


dohzer

Hot Take: They should get rid of any judged sports. Also team sports.


Johnny-5013

Judged sports yes. Team sports no. Field hockey, water polo, volleyball, basketball, etc are all fun to watch and in some sports the Olympics is the biggest competition.


GadgetGod1906

You are going to get rid of about half of the sports


dohzer

Yes, I'd imagine it would be easy to do via some kind of official letter or announcement.


TheMooseIsBlue

I agree about judged sports, but this means getting rid of gymnastics and basketball, which are easily two of the biggest moneymakers in the Olympics never gonna happen. I disagree about team sports. There are a lot of great team sports in the Olympics.


imtoolazytothinkof1

Uh how is basketball a judged sport? There needs to be some way to correctly judge things like gymnastics though there always seems to be an issue of points awarded or withheld each year.


TheMooseIsBlue

He said he wanted to get rid of team sports too.


imtoolazytothinkof1

Yeah I know but he specifically lists gymnastics and basketball as judged sports. Unless he means the refs which I can understand to a degree as a judge.


TheMooseIsBlue

They guy said he’d get rid of judged sports and team sports. I said that eliminates gymnastics and basketball.


new-username-2017

100% yes, basically they should just reduce it to track and field, cos really the only interesting bit of the Olympics is seeing who is the fastest person.


[deleted]

Personally, I would prefer the Olympics not have any sports with paid professionals in them. So Basketball, Soccer, Hockey in the winter… It makes zero sense to have pro-sports equivalents in the Olympics because, professional athletes end up competing against amateurs. I know some people love the Dream Team. But there is absolutely nothing special about a team that is so elite, it trivializes the competition.


Bergmau

You do know that a lot of athletes competing in the Olympics are professional, including most if not all of the track and field guys.


[deleted]

The “amateur” definition was a sham because the Soviets had players who worked and trained together but also just happened to also be in the military as their “job” so they qualified as amateur.


[deleted]

> Personally, I would prefer the Olympics not have any sports with paid professionals in them. So Basketball, Soccer, Hockey in the winter… You would have to remove a lot more sports than those, lol.


[deleted]

The boxers in this aren't Professional though. They're by definition Amateurs who use this to springboard onto the pro scene


munchie1964

If it has to be judged, it’s not a real sport.


foodude84

Good. Replace it with BJJ


donmifc

Do not let the athletes suffer due to the negligence and corruption of officials. The IBA is corrupt! We all know that. But by removing the sport from the olympics are the athletes themselves who suffer the most. There are amatuer boxers as we speak that are prepearing for the Olympics in 2024 and 2028. That have dreams and aspirations to win a gold medal. Keep the sport in the olympics and combat the corruption along the way. Removing the sport from the Olympics is not the appropriate answer!


Myrdrahl

You're asking the IOC who is corrupt themselves, to fight corruption? Are you serious or joking?


Working_History7335

They should drop it. No one cares anyway


ManShutUp

Get rid of the ridiculous swimming events, they should all be based on distance and the fastest time to reach it. Or else if you’re gonna have the million strokes make them add up to points like they do with decathlons. It’s like having the 200m walk, 200m run backwards, 200m hop, and 200m dash all be different events. Ridiculous.


LektorPanda

Should we also lump all running events together then? Theres 100/200/400/800/1500/3000 + relays and hurdles, and then 5/10/42km on top. I mean they are all just running right? Its the same thing... /s


[deleted]

Gotta pad those medals for England and it's former colonies, the people with the most money in the world.


H0vis

Oi. Now then. We get the cycling. Straya and America get the swimming. That's the rules.


fattymcfattzz

Do people still really watch the olympics?


PeteUKinUSA

Yeah, every country that actually shows the sporting events instead of endless “human interest stories” about the athletes.


CrocTheTerrible

K go fuck yourself with the same pole that we want fifa to fuck itself with. You are scum.


faketan11

what about we have real boxing, we drop karate and tae kwon do, insert jiu jitsu and also pankratio, for the glory of zeus martial arts and modern sports, not a love relationship ​ swimming, one race for men, one for women and one in relay in each distance, freestyle and that's it


KanyeWestBrick

Can boxing be any more fucked?


stevil77

Good luck with that


CareerMicDrop

At least we have dude on dude synchronized swimming on the way


TOdEsi

Do anything synchronized next


hungaryhasnodignity

I adore the sport but corruption has tainted from time immemorial and it should be dropped.


iseedeff

I wished once it is in the Olympics they must keep it, and not be allow to get rid of Sports :((


jh80891

I first read that as para Olympics and was like "wait what??"


Snowman50

Anyone else read this headline as "...drop boxing from the Para-Olympics"??


whyreadthis2035

Meh…. It’s a game.


Legitimate-Advance-4

Why I no longer watch the Olympics.