Starting soon. Let me start things off with Mongolia’s national uniform. [image] Other than that, I’m really looking forward to track and field (US versus Jamaica events in particular), and swimming.

There wouldn’t be an issue if the IOC had stuck with karate, but apparently it didn’t have entertainment value or appeal to a young audience. You can’t bs karate.

[image] TT: Seems like a pretty terrible person all around, really. Not even a good dancer. I don’t get that sense from this article and some interviews she gave way before Paris. [image] Raygun earned her spot in the Olympics. Yes, really. Did Raygun, the highly memeable breaker…

Ok, i stopped reading at “deep dive”.

[image] hannes: As an Australian I would be super proud of her. I would actually be embarrassed. It was awful. But since I’m not Australian, I will continue to enjoy the comedy she provided. There’s no let-up in the jokes, I see.

Uh… seeing as break dancing was originally an African American dance, which may have shared origins from African dance with capoeira, if we are going for a cultural appropriation angle here, wouldn’t that mean most participants in the break dancing event were also culturally appropriating? I think …

[image] hansioux: if we are going for a cultural appropriation angle here, wouldn’t that mean most participants in the break dancing event were also culturally appropriating? If they make their living writing the kinds of papers and teaching the kinds of courses she does, yes.

If anything she made a case for why the decision to exclude the sport in the next Games was probably correct. This is not a sport in the traditional sense anyway, it’s more a lifestyle. I wonder how break battles were decided in the past. Definitely not the way the Olympic judges did it. If you com…

[image] hannes: If anything she made a case for why the decision to exclude the sport in the next Games was probably correct Yup, definitely ruined it for everyone else. Some gymnastics events, figure skating, synchronized swimming, not really sportsy sports either

[image] TT: Yup, definitely ruined it for everyone else. Nah, the decision was not made because of her. It’s all about the money, probably, as always. How many eyeballs can we reach, is there any money attached to the eyeball owners? And then, less importantly, is this really a sport?

[image] TT: Some gymnastics events, figure skating, synchronized swimming, not really sportsy sports either What about beisbol? It’s more a game than a sport.

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