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In case you don’t get your fill of weird Olympic fringe sports this month, the International Olympic Committee has decided to add skateboarding, surfing, baseball/softball, karate, and climbing to the 2020 summer Olympics. Committee officials said the decision comes in the wake of an effort to attract younger viewers to the Olympics.
“We want to take sport to the youth,” IOC President Thomas Bach said, according to the news release. “With the many options that young people have, we cannot expect any more that they will come automatically to us. We have to go to them.”
Correct me if I’m wrong, but isn’t baseball considered a dying sport? A game of the past? I could see skateboarding catching on with the youngsters, maybe even surfing, but karate? Climbing? That’s napping tv if I’ve ever heard of it.
You want to attract young viewers to the Olympics tell the rest of the world to get better at basketball and make football an Olympic sport. Nothing will attract an audience more than America dominating third world countries in the most violent sport ever created. .
[via Mashable]
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jduda@grandex.co
WTF, Larping didn’t make it…again.
I think you need to reevaluate your presentation to the IOC for next time.
I sent all the board member copies of the movie ‘Role Models’ with a nice write up explaining how these people have no avenue for success and then seek escape elsewhere by involving themselves in heroin and prescription drugs for Schizophrenia.
Nived i believe you’d be the starchild
Gold medal for sure.
Regardless of how truthful your baseball comments may or may not have been, I hate you for them anyway.
The worst part is that it’s not even true in the way people say it. Baseball is just much more localized than other sports, which just means I don’t care when the Yankees are playing the Mariners.
They should have dollar beer night every night then it’d pickup. I’m more of a minor league fan because they always have fun outa the box type promos or events but there are way better ways to spend a hot summer night in texas than watching the astros play and paying full price for beer.
Skateboarding is not a sport and should not be viewed as such. Source: skateboarder.
Surfs up, brahhhhh.
I’m ridiculously excited to see climbing added. Watch a bouldering competition on YouTube, those folks do some insane stuff.
It’s gonna people finishing climbs in 30 seconds that would take me 20 minutes, gonna be crazy.
Don’t hate me for this correction but baseball playoff ratings are better than basketball playoff ratings.
Football’s the most violent sport? I think rugby would like a word with you.
I didn’t know Kam Chancellor and Clay Matthews now play rugby.
If they get real deal Karate practitioners out there, that would be great to see. The Olympic committee is slowly working it’s way to putting pankration back in as an event. Pankration is essentially modern MMA.
I still would’ve liked it if Lacrosse made it. Iroquois, Canada, and the US would obviously dominate but still.
Good luck getting skateboarders to pass a drug test