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Thursday, July 07, 2005Olympics drop Baseball, SoftballMore evidence that the Olympics have become a complete fucking joke. Baseball goes, effective London 2012, likely to be replaced by either golf, rugby, squash, karate or whatever "roller sports" are. Yet Ping Pong - a "sport" played by only two sorts of people: Chinese, and stoners - stays on the program. Ridiculous. Comments:Are you serious? This is utter bullshit! This World Baseball Championship better not be the blame of this... I totally disagree with Kenny. In fact, I think the Olympics is nowhere near as good today as it was when amateurism was the rule (even if loosely enforced). Nothing will ever compare with the 1980 Olympic Hockey gold, which was great because the players were nobodies. Soccer doesn't have the world's best players at the Olympics, but that remains an Olympic sport. Hey, consistently enjoy this site, first time commenting... Baseball clearly should be an olympic event, but at least the best baseball players in the world have outlets in which to demonstrate their talents - ie Major League Baseball, the new World Baseball Championships. Softball is the sport that really suffers however. I cover sports for my college, and for many girls who take up softball, women like Dot Richardson are their idols, and the olympic gold is their gold. Furthermore, I think the olympics have declined in popularity and prominence due to the overriding hypocrisy evident in the Games since the IOC's response to the kidnappings and murder of Israeli athletes at the Munich Olympics. The Olympics preach unity and understanding, yet practice petty politics and bias against the United States. Chronicler--Leave off the ripping on the Competative Horse Walking. Horses have been part of the Olympics since their start--longer than most anything else. Horses have been part of the Olympics since their start I was not aware women's basketball has been around that long... |
