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submitted 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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GIF of the breakdancing lady at the olympics with the caption "Me explaining mass spectrometry"

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[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

Eh, painting and chess used to be Olympic sports. Shooting/air rifle still is. Break dancing requires more physicality than all of those.

I don't particularly care about gatekeeping what activities are added/subtracted to the Olympics, as long as it's competitive and entertaining to watch.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Shooting/air rifle still is.

What's wrong with that lmao

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago

Nothing, that's what I'm trying to say. All the "sports" I listed have some sort of skill expression that can be judged. Why is break dancing less worthy? Should skateboarding also not have been included? Why is making a horse hop around to music considered a "real sport"?

It's all arbitrary.

[–] [email protected] -2 points 1 month ago (2 children)

With the amount of physical activity needed, it can hardly be seen as a sport, let alone an Olympic one.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago

This is a stupid opinion. Go try competitive shooting and tell me how you do.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago

Try shooting a high quality air rifle.