How to make the Olympics better

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The asspain knows no bounds.

also lose dressage because it's ridiculous

Ehhh womens basketball is competitive, and the mens is improving. Swimming is a bit of a joke though.

>wahhh remove any events America is good at its not fair wahhh

I agree with the BBC. Also horse dancing and maybe shooting.

Make dope legal
Cut any sport that is based on judges

i agree with swimming, but its not americas fault everyone else isn't as good at basketball, its not like other countries dont have equal opportunities, and its way better to watch than 99% of all over olympic events

Basketball could be fixed making it amateur

OP missed off the tweet where someone said remove all those events that are soley judged

Based Phil Newbery.

There is no reason for a sport with only four variations to have 34 individual medals

Did they also recommend replacing swimming and basketball with snooker, darts, f1 and humpty mumpty tumpty toes?

I've never seen a bigger strawman in my life

You're an idiot

Darts would be more exciting than swimming desu, proffesional darts is fun as fuck.

Reason why basketbal shouldn't be in:

"Argentina is the only Nation that still exists, besides the United States, to have won either the Men's or Women's Tournament"

Remove all events that are judged not timed.

Remove horse dancing and stand up paddle boarding or whatever the fuck it was I watched last night.

>it's not just a meme on Sup Forums
>they act this way in real life too
Holy shit

Remove all cycling events.

Wrong, other countries won before usa started sending pros

>There is no reason for a sport with only four variations to have 34 individual medals
try to argue this

>remove the event because americans are so good at it
butthurt. basketball is a popular sport.

All 10 of them?

Most of which you can't cross train since a rider specialises in either sprint or long distance?

Not this pathetic comeback again...

This. Make it similar to Football where only amateur or young players are allowed to compete. America will probably still win it though, but it makes it a little bit more interesting.

Imagine all the fat fuck marching in with a flag holding in their left hand and a pint in their right one at the opening cermonie

t. fat virgin

Only people with full time jobs can compete.

/lympics

The only reason GB has done so well in the velodrome is because NZ choked so hard to be perfectly fair

>"that still exists"

Tbh mens football has no place in the olympics

T. Never watched live darts

>anglos
>good at pub sports like darts and pool
can't make this shit up

10 events for sitting in a fucking chair? Enough is enough.

If olympic football was opened to professionals, would it be as prestigious as the world cup?

>he says when you have 100odd events for floating in a pool

Nothing wrong with basketball, Spain acutally do well.

100% agree on the swimmming comment.

huge scheduling issues considering all soccer competitions

Remove shit where winning an Olympic medal isn't the pinnacle of what you can achieve. So golf, basketball, tennis, all of that sort of stuff can fuck off.

make roiding legal so we can dope too.

Tell that to the paralympics

>French
>Good at fuck all

>pls removed sports americans are good at
>they're blowing us the fuck out in the olympics

>let's get rid of swimming events
>also basketball
>also gymnastics
>get rid of all american sports
>there are too many track and field events
>w-we don't care about the olympics anyways
Every time. E V E R Y T I M E

Swimming events which take between roughly 20 seconds and 15 minutes:

>50m free
>100m free, butterfly, breastroke, backstroke
>200m free, butterfly, breastroke, backstroke, individual medley
>400m free, individual medley
>1500m free
>4x100m free, medley
>4x200m free

16 women's, 16 men's = 32 total

Running events which take between roughly 20 seconds and 15 minutes:

>200m
>400m
>800m
>1500m
>5000m
>4x100m
>4x400m

7 women's, 7 men's = 14 total

It's well known swimming has too many events, why are people surprised at hearing this?

Swimming is debatable but Basketball is bullshit, because really only on country has proper leagues. Might as well include American Football or whatever stone throwing game a random island nigger invented.

GET RID OF SWIMMING. MORE SPORTS BRITS ARE GOOD AT LIKE HORSE DANCING.

Because it's le butthurt salty anti American conspiracy xD

I dunno, as an american it's kinda depressing. We're inundated with a really high level of play during the rest of the year, so the olympic basketball isn't particularly interesting. Most good US college teams could beat the rest of the world.

Add jousting and tourneys there's already some pretty meme sports

If America is the best in the workd at sports surely you don't care what sports are in the games at all?

It's not just basketball, get rid of football too

Shouldn't be in the Olympics because it isn't and never will be the too competition for the sport

Like baseball/softball?

>Shouldn't be in the Olympics because it isn't and never will be the too competition for the sport

That's retarded as fuck, man.

First thing to do would be to give more medals for team sports.

Shit we are already giving fuck ton of medals for swimming, running and cycling.

Just give medals accordign to the numbers of players on the field.

That way team sport are not worth 20 medals with all of the back benchers but are still worth between 5 and 13 depending of the sports.

If we do this we can keep all of the swimming events and it will be fair.

literally EVERY fucking sport is judged and I mean every sport

False equivalent. Nobody gives a fuck about American football outside of the US. Basketball is popular and played all over the world. The NBA gets more international every year.

Get rid of swimming completely.

Add more cycling and rowing events.

It's the truth

The olympics is about being the best in the world and when the world cup is very obviously the top competition with the Olympics not even in contention then there's no point it being there

The 100m is objective who crossed the line first, judging horse dancing and diving is completely different.

>getting rid of basketball
>getting rid of Harlem Globetrotters shows with actual stakes

>The olympics is about being the best in the world

If this were true, then there would be no U-23 or whatever the age cap is for football. They used to have the same sort of restriction for basketball in the Olympics.

Basketball is fine. It doesn't matter that one country is dominant.
Swimming should be less events, just like track running and cycling. And I'm not saying that because murika, I also think the winter olympics should have less ice skating events (which we dominate in)

How about just 2 events for distance sports? One sprint, one long distance. For cycling, the velodrome should be a separate thing, and for swimming there could be a sort of open water swim, except it should be in like hard streaming water like they use for kayaks.

Remove all events with judges or change the scoring system.

I'm talking about getting rid of football because it goes against the spirit of being the best

dqs are judged on a case-by-case basis, as well as close ties

there is a level of subjectivity no matter what sport it is, even things like clean and jerk or archery, deciding where the hit was

dressage is fucking retarded. and we probably arent going to win the gold in mens basketball because our good players didn't go to rio because of zika and the ones who did go are getting fall down drunk on the beach everyday.

en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uppies_and_Downies puppies and downies basically 1000 aside rugby matcg

>dqs are judged on a case-by-case basis
No, it is a computer that tells them whether they reacted too quickly or not

And I'm talking about getting rid of the asinine age cap and MAKE it about being the best so it's more relevant in the Olympics. The Olympics should be about the best athletes playing the best games in the world, and football is certainly a part of that.

Merge them into horse shooting?

Horsey archery would be pretty fucking based

>Basketball is popular and played all over the world

It's not though, and the fact that US smashes through the competition showcases this. Fact is it really is a minor sport pretty much anywhere but the US, to the point where European leagues are just dumping grounds for American players who don't make the cut in trouble MBA, and the Olympics are about common competition, not smashing whatever niche your country excels because nobody else cares about the discipline.

nope

and even if that were true you can still get second chances, happens almost every olympics. Things like intentionality are judged too, as we saw in the bicycle racing

already happened this olympics in swimming

The real shame of the tournament is the lack of Steph Curry putting up 200 points against the Brazillians. Constantly draining threes makes for real boring TV, but it'd would be worth it for the rain of chairs and trash that would hit the court when his 30th trey sinks.

Shooting GONE
Diving GONE
Horse dancing GONE
Table Tennis GONE
Swimming CUT IN HALF
Basketball GONE
Football GONE
Archery GONE

Fixed the Olympics

I agree, cut it by half by getting rid of the meme-gender.

>implying they'll ever get rid of horse events when those are the "athletes" who probably "donate independently" the most to IOC officials

So only black teams have every won?

Would be worse. Good international kids turn pro at 18 while the US has the NCAA and rules that force kids to stay amateur.

Football at the Olympics will never be the best though due to the world cup, that's the point

I would cut all high profile sports that have their own spotlight and let the Olympics just showcase the lesser known ones.

Like the golf?

so lose boxe too?

>It's not though, and the fact that US smashes through the competition showcases this.

Basketball is seriously played and followed in a good number of countries. If by "minor sport" you mean "the-second-most-popular-team-sport-after-football" then yes, I'll concede that its "minor".

Part of the reason the US is still so dominant because of the black population and the fact that basketball has only really been a truly international sport since Jordan. So we're talking the last 20-30 years. I'll also admit that most kids elsewhere dream of being footballers first and foremost, whereas in the US it's a childhood dream of many young children.

No, it will never be the best

It will never be looked at as more important than the world cup, its just a fact

it's after the euros and too close to the start of the season so is at a disadvantage as big players will skip it to rest or play for their club

I mean, it's not our fault that nobody is as good at us at swimming either. Agree about losing some of the races though

Basketball is a little ridiculous imo, and makes this guy just seem a bit asspained. This isn't 1992, the international competition is vastly improved. We've won like 3 games by just single digits already

STOP HATING EQUESTRIAN SPORTS THEY ARE THE CONTEST OF KINGS AND HORSE EVENTS HAVE BEEN A PART OF THE OLYMPICS SINCE ANCIENT TIMES

nigga there's a place for the super-rich at the olympics, and that's the winter olympics

Not sure why you noggers are so hard on judged sports. Sure it's not as objective as scored disciplines, but a lot of sports just are about movement and body control, which are hard to put in numbers.

Yeah Tennis shouldn't be in the Olympics either there are already 4 grand slams and the Davis Cup

What if your country isn't into swimming but it is into some other event. Say you kill USA in this event and USA kills you in swimming. Suddenly USA is better than you. Does that seem fair?

Cut in half swimming
removw the horse stuff
remove everything where the Olympics isnt the ost prestigious prize you can win (Football, tennis, golf,Basket, boxe) OR make something to make them actually relevant (wich wont ever happen)
I would remove a lot of meme variants of sports that has too many of them (too many kinds of shooting, too many kinds of indoor cycling, too many kinds of fencing)

Yes you salty asspained anti American pussy just like get better at swimming lol faggot xDD

the water's not going to bite, achmed

put all the meme fighting events into an MMA event

remove football, tennis, golf etc where they dont really care about winning - unless there's a strong olympic history for it

>ITT: REMOVE ALL SPORTS EXCEPT THE ONES MY COUNTRY IS GOOD AT

It would, but i meant shooting horses.

How about shooting Emus, oh nvm Straya would lose every time

>put all the meme fighting events into an MMA event

No because UFC has a monopoly on the best fighters and won't let them so it shouldn't be included for the same reason as Football and Basketball and because it's an American meme sport. Olympics should be promoting the traditional sports tied to it - Wrestling and Boxing.

>football, tennis, golf
This. All of these are big enough to not need the Olympics.

Just put little mustaches on them and we would do fine.