GIF of the breakdancing lady at the olympics with the caption “Me explaining mass spectrometry”

  • sigmaklimgrindset@sopuli.xyz
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    2 months ago

    Eh, painting and chess used to be Olympic sports. Shooting/air rifle still is. Break dancing requires more physicality than all of those.

    I don’t particularly care about gatekeeping what activities are added/subtracted to the Olympics, as long as it’s competitive and entertaining to watch.

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        2 months ago

        Nothing, that’s what I’m trying to say. All the “sports” I listed have some sort of skill expression that can be judged. Why is break dancing less worthy? Should skateboarding also not have been included? Why is making a horse hop around to music considered a “real sport”?

        It’s all arbitrary.

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        2 months ago

        With the amount of physical activity needed, it can hardly be seen as a sport, let alone an Olympic one.