Driving, gymnastics, break dancing (ESPECIALLY break dancing)… Anything that can’t be timed or measured or otherwise objectively decided should be removed from competition.

How do you quantify “style”? How do you ensure there is not biase from judges based on their knowledge of the competitor, be it country they are representing, or personal connections, or racial / religious opinion? How do you fairly compensate for what your personal opinion considers “worth” more when it comes to a trick or routine compared to another?

Swimming, running, jumping, throwing things a distance are all things that can be measured and ruled against a standard that every competitor uses. It’s fair and it’s removed from any bias.

The Olympics are supposed to be about competition between athletes and shouldn’t be affected by popularity or politics, which anything with an interpretive aspect to the result will suffer from.

So yeah, remove the feels sports and limit the Olympics to reals sports.

  • @ryathal
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    91 month ago

    Judges sports are ok if the judging can be objective. If the commentators can’t explain the difference between an 8.0 and a 9.0 score then it’s a problem. Many sports have made changes to address this, which has been beneficial to their sports.

    It’s also why break dancing was such a bad event. They kept repeating the criteria, but couldn’t really explain anything about why a person won or why it was so one sided most of the time.