From USA Today- "The IOC considered replacing them [baseball and softball] with two sports from a waiting list of five: Golf, rugby, squash, karate and roller sports. " Since they are getting rid of them which of these 'sports' would YOU be intrested in watching in future Olympics? Just wondering! :)
Utopian Friend
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To be honest, I'd say none of these...
Golf already has it's own network & is too long to watch, but I do enjoy it occasionally
Rugby is passionate, but as a female... it would be like watching North American Football... boring
Squash is a closer candidate for the Summer Olympics, since badminton, tennis, & ping pong already compete, but it would be too many racket sports competing
Karate would be exciting for some, but they already have Tae Kwon Do & wrestling, so it would be repetitive & I don't watch the latter 2 anyways
Roller sports wouldn't interest me either, even though it's winter counter part is quite exciting, maybe it's because I associate anything roller to the old Roller Derby sport?
*Personally I think they shouldn't add any others, cause the Olympics are far too full of different sports as is & the countries vying to host, usually go over buget to build venues for all the ones already existing, which in turn is unfair to the tax payers of that country. Plus many of the official Olympic sports don't get TV coverage anyways, because there's too much to fit into a program schedule, so if its not covered, no one watches them, no one cares & the sport suffers from no sponsors.
Less is always better.
Halo Mom
Roller sports, like roller blading, speed skating with roller blades would be interesting
Karate or Rugby I guess would be okay
Roller sports should be in the olympics
Baseball and Softball, are okay, what is good about them is that they can be held outside the city or another part of the country
I could see replacing Softball
Baseball is different, that is a world sport. Several country can win a medal, they do not have a favorite. Well, US and China, but if either does not win the gold, nobody would be surprise
Roller sports would be cool
There will be a some speed skaters and can do both summer and winter Olympics. Most use speed skates in the summer
Anonymous
No new sports are being introduced for London. Baseball, softball, rugby, squash and karate are all going to be voted on to see which will be put in for the 2016 games. Roller sports will not be included in that vote.
Semicharmed
Rugby would be my first choice. Since American football will never be an Olympic sport, Rugby would be the next best thing in my opinion. After that karate would be cool or maybe roller blading races.
jhendricks316
Get rid of mens volleyball and softball. Keep baseball Put golf in