The upcoming Paris Olympics will feature four new sports: breakdancing, skateboarding, sport climbing, and surfing.
Baseball and karate have been left out.
Why?
Because baseball already has the World Series...?
I think breakdancing is a great sport.
They stand on their heads, spin around, and stop in strange poses.
It is a sport that requires special talents and great discipline.
Gymnastics requires special equipment.
The high bar and pommel horse would never be found in a regular school gymnasium.
But breakdancing requires only one person. That is the origin of sports.
However, I wonder why the two dancers are competing in a showdown style.
Is it because of its origins as a means to peacefully resolve fights between delinquents, rather than through violence?
I don't think that a ritual to provoke the opponent is needed in today's sports....
But I am not sure how the other three sports became Olympic sports.
Well, I'm not saying they are not appropriate, but can they be considered world-class sports?
As for skateboarding, if young kids are having fun in the city, that's fine.
But skateboarding makes a lot of noise and is banned in many places in the city.
Is that why you want to make it an official sport, to create momentum for building dedicated stadiums?
For sport climbing, build an artificial wall and make the conditions the same for all participants.
They put a lot of handles on the wall, and the participants grab them and climb as fast as they can.
But is this fun to watch? Wouldn't it be much more fun to climb a majestic mountain rock wall?
Surfing is done in the ocean, but can't the size of the waves at any given time create the same conditions?
I hear they give points based on the number of techniques and difficulty, but that doesn't make surfing a fun surfing experience, does it?
Isn't the real fun in floating on a surfboard or picking up girls on the beach?
I just want to be stingy with everything....
Sorry to all the athletes who are training so hard, dreaming of medals in the 4 new events <(_ _)>.