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Frederick S asked in SportsOlympics · 1 decade ago

Do you have any good ideas for new events at the Summer Olympics?

I watched that Bob Costas-IOC president Jacques Rogge (Part III) interview today. With baseball and softball gone for various reasons, Rogge said the following sports are being considered for 2016: golf, rugby, roller sports (I guess they don't mean roller derby), squash, karate and women's boxing. Does anyone have better candidates?

The IOC has a couple of criteria that I want to use for this discussion:

1) Played around the world and must be competitive among participating countries. Remember one reason softball was canceled because the USA was too dominant (until a few days ago)

2) Must be fairly cheap to build and manage, and have some use after the Olympics. This was baseball's downfall. Expensive to build a stadium which will not be used after the Olympics by the hosts (unless they love baseball).

3) Must have a women's events. I know people want American football, but there's no women's American football. The IOC wants more women's events.

We can have some creative events. How about bowling? It's played around the world. Paintball? Ballroom dancing? We can have hip-hop dancing like MTV's America's Best Dance Crew. Or even cheerleading. Then we have all those X-Games like motocross, street luge and surfing.

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  • 1 decade ago
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    The idea that the "U.S. dominates" is such a cop-out. Japan dominates judo, the U.S. dominated swimming, China is dominating diving, but we'd never get rid of those!

    I think cricket would have enough nations. Tug-of-war doesn't require a lot of equipment, so many nations could get in on this. Karate is a worldwide thing. Kickboxing could be fun. Rugby is mostly European, but the Americas have begun to play...

  • 1 decade ago

    Softball, Baseball, Golf, Rugby and skateboarding would be my top 5.

  • maccaz
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    1 decade ago

    Rugby 7s or 11 man rugby

    Womens boxing- there are many female boxers eager to get boxing matches

  • 1 decade ago

    Rugby 7s, 20/20 cricket, less swimming events, more cycling(especially women's) DEFINITELY NO DANCING.

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  • 1 decade ago

    How about a real sport...RUGBY!!! Yes, women play it. I was a tight-head prop for my college team.

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