If you trained for five years…

[RossTaylorsBox]

So is drinking 6 pints and taking the piss out of your mates, doesn’t make it an Olympic Sport (heads to invent a new sport thread).

Hmmm weird, could've sworn it was an Olympic sport merely 4 days ago.

 

[RossTaylorsBox]

I wonder what the breaking community thinks? Some of them didn’t want it because it’s just never existed in the form the olympics wanted. The others who participated, including the judges clearly found it acceptable.

Would be like telling cricket hey we’ll let you in but only if you play T10s.

I reckon it's like skateboarding where there's people who want to treat it as a legitimate sport vs. people who think being in the Olympics isn't authentic.

 

[Furball]

Just to reaffirm this conversation, one of the British women runners has just revealed she pretty much ran the whole race with a broken hip, and still came in under 3h.

I think there's a missing piece in thinking about what sport you could train for, and that's the mental side - ie just the single-mindedness to sacrifice so much in the relentless pursuit of perfecting a physical skill.

Yeah the mental side was what stopped me running to any serious degree for about 5 years. I completely lost the confidence to run because inevitably I'd hit a stone or land awkwardly on a pavement, sprain my ankle and have to deal with the frustration of being injured for a couple of weeks.

It's why I sympathise a lot with players like Kemar Roofe, who's basically had the last 2 years of his Rangers career ruined by injuries. I'm convinced with him it's mental rather than physical because he hasn't had a serious injury like a knee injury or a broken leg which has kept him out for months, it seems to just be a series of niggles which kept him out for months.

 

[Furball]

I reckon it's like skateboarding where there's people who want to treat it as a legitimate sport vs. people who think being in the Olympics isn't authentic.

If artistic gymnastics and swimming are Olympic sports, then I don't really see any reason why breakdancing shouldn't also be a sport. From the little I caught of it it just looked ****ing ridiculous.

 

[Molehill]

Hmmm weird, could've sworn it was an Olympic sport merely 4 days ago.

Which was also when it ended being one too.

 

[sledger]

If artistic gymnastics and swimming are Olympic sports, then I don't really see any reason why breakdancing shouldn't also be a sport. From the little I caught of it it just looked ****ing ridiculous.

It sounds ridiculous, but imo if artistic gymnastics, swimming, and break dancing are Olympic sports then a plausible case can be made for Pro-Wrestling to be an Olympic sport imo.

 

[RossTaylorsBox]

If artistic gymnastics and swimming are Olympic sports, then I don't really see any reason why breakdancing shouldn't also be a sport. From the little I caught of it it just looked ****ing ridiculous.

I watched the men's comp and it was good, I like the idea of having to quickly improvise being a testable skill. Most sports look stupid tbh, we're on a cricket forum for ****s sake.

It sounds ridiculous, but imo if artistic gymnastics, swimming, and break dancing are Olympic sports then a plausible case can be made for Pro-Wrestling to be an Olympic sport imo.

Kurt Angle will come back and immediately break his neck again.

 

[Tom Flint]

Isn't wrestling already an event

 

[sledger]

:/

 

[Daemon]

One of Ireland's first olympic medals was for painting

 

[ripper868]

It sounds ridiculous, but imo if artistic gymnastics, swimming, and break dancing are Olympic sports then a plausible case can be made for Pro-Wrestling to be an Olympic sport imo.

Would need to be an all around event I think - each nation has to cut a promo, have a men's match, women's match and a gimmick match. Gold goes to whichever 'show' judged to be the best. Time limit of 5-10 minutes for each element, judged by a group of ex wrestlers, but ultimately it's Vince and Vince only who decides who takes the gold, until he is hit with a Stone Cold Stunner outta nowhere as he's announcing the Gold Medal Winner, which Austin then awards to Texas. And that's the bottom line. etc.

End Scene.

 

[Coronis]

It sounds ridiculous, but imo if artistic gymnastics, swimming, and break dancing are Olympic sports then a plausible case can be made for Pro-Wrestling to be an Olympic sport imo.

Sadly only one is being disposed of.

 

[Uppercut]

One of Ireland's first olympic medals was for painting

It’s especially strange because Ireland has produced about a million great sportsmen, musicians, writers, actors… and zero good painters. The lad that won wasn’t even the best creative artist in his own family.

 

[Red_Ink_Squid]

It sounds ridiculous, but imo if artistic gymnastics, swimming, and break dancing are Olympic sports then a plausible case can be made for Pro-Wrestling to be an Olympic sport imo.

I pitched this to Mrs RIS at the weekend.

She didn't seem convinced, oddly.

 

[sledger]

Would need to be an all around event I think - each nation has to cut a promo, have a men's match, women's match and a gimmick match. Gold goes to whichever 'show' judged to be the best. Time limit of 5-10 minutes for each element, judged by a group of ex wrestlers, but ultimately it's Vince and Vince only who decides who takes the gold, until he is hit with a Stone Cold Stunner outta nowhere as he's announcing the Gold Medal Winner, which Austin then awards to Texas. And that's the bottom line. etc.

End Scene.

All the matches should be judged by Dave Meltzer, just so I could enjoy the resultant internet meltdown.

 

[sledger]

I pitched this to Mrs RIS at the weekend.

She didn't seem convinced, oddly.

It's one of those ideas that sound patently ridiculous on paper, but pro-wrestling, like artistic swimming and gymnastics and dancing etc. is just another performing art. All the justifications for including the latter could conceivably be extended to pro-wrestling imo.

 

[Daemon]

How do you score pro-wrestling?

The fight needs to be scripted so it's basically 2 or more people fighting against their own teammates I guess. Get judged on difficulty and coolness of moves.

 

[Red_Ink_Squid]

How do you score pro-wrestling?

The fight needs to be scripted so it's basically 2 or more people fighting against their own teammates I guess. Get judged on difficulty and coolness of moves.

-Storytelling
-Creativity
-Athleticism
-How overtly fake are the punches?
-Crowd reaction
-Quality of entrance music

 

[Ali TT]

"Samoa score 86.5 points from Reigns's double pike with twist into a DDT in the 10m cage competition"

 

[sledger]

"Samoa score 86.5 points from Reigns's double pike with twist into a DDT in the 10m cage competition"

"Ten points deducted for ill-advised culturally insensitive attempt to get heel heat by wiping his armpit with Indian flag".