Worst Sport/Event in the 2024 Olympics - submissions

[Bahnz]

Like I said, rowing is the most thrilling sport in the Olympics and anyone who says otherwise is a moron.

 

[Coronis]

Like I said, rowing is the most thrilling sport in the Olympics and anyone who says otherwise is a moron.

Crazy how people were saying it in this thread then rowing talk dominated the main thread for a few pages I thought

 

[GIMH]

Replace Race Walking with Race W@nking

A TRFC fan who ran a fan site disappeared off the face of the earth a few years back when it emerged he’d been asking teenage boys from the fanbase to have **** races with him. True story

 

[GIMH]

Feel like I killed the thread with that post

 

[howitzer]

Feel like I killed the thread with that post

I agree with all of this except the idea that there's any pressing need to control the number of sports at the Olympics anyway. Within logistical reason, just throw the doors open IMO. If it's established enough to have genuine elite level competition at an international level and it isn't a team sport with established mainstream prestige events already then it belongs in the Olympics.

I dunno...

Edit:

 

[andruid]

Just wanted to take this opportunity to celebrate the demise of Greco-Roman Wrestling.


Also @RossTaylorsBox, what is your beef with Men's 800m? Did Seb Coe, or David Rudisha hurts on some level?

 

[Ali TT]

I actually quite like the tennis format which is like a shortened version of the game, and that the Olympics is the only time the big name singles players play doubles.

 

[Coronis]

I actually quite like the tennis format which is like a shortened version of the game, and that the Olympics is the only time the big name singles players play doubles.

I know the Williams sisters and Coco Gauff have won singles and doubles Grand Slams.

I think maybe Kafelnikov was the last male player to do it but I could be wrong.

I did always like the Hopman Cup which was sort of a mini olympics.

Edit: Also why the **** is the Hopman Cup being played in France nowadays.

 

[Ali TT]

I know the Williams sisters and Coco Gauff have won singles and doubles Grand Slams.

I think maybe Kafelnikov was the last male player to do it but I could be wrong.

I did always like the Hopman Cup which was sort of a mini olympics.

Edit: Also why the **** is the Hopman Cup being played in France nowadays.

Yeah, true that the Davis Cup etc do often see the bigger names play doubles. I think Murray and Henman have won doubles/mixed medals at past Olympics.

 

[Brook's side]

Of those in the OP (which I guess is everything):
Badminton
Beach Volleyball
Football
Handball
Rowing
Sailing
Skateboarding
Surfing
Table Tennis
Volleyball
Water Polo
Wrestling

 

[RossTaylorsBox]

Just wanted to take this opportunity to celebrate the demise of Greco-Roman Wrestling.


Also @RossTaylorsBox, what is your beef with Men's 800m? Did Seb Coe, or David Rudisha hurts on some level?

Haha nah I was just kidding, in reality I'd add more sports.

 

[dontcloseyoureyes]

Like I said, rowing is the most thrilling sport in the Olympics and anyone who says otherwise is a moron.

Not sure how you can say that when we've yet to see the debut of Breaking tbh

 

[Hungry Llama]

Breakdancing but i've not seen it yet so i might be won over

 

[Furball]

Another one I find a bit silly, but for other reasons, is the Heptathlon/Decathlon. I have no problem in theory with these combinations and trying to find the all-rounder. However, from previous iterations it's clear that the injury rate is incredibly high for athletes in these contests and in some ways it ends up being really a contest for who can make it through without injury.

Having watched a bit of the heptathlon over the last couple of days I'm inclined to agree with you.

By elite standards, you're essentially watching athletes perform fairly averagely across a multitude of sports.

Closing the Saturday with the men's decathlon 1500m instead of the women's 100m final was a brain dead scheduling decision as well.

 

[Ali TT]

Having watched a bit of the heptathlon over the last couple of days I'm inclined to agree with you.

By elite standards, you're essentially watching athletes perform fairly averagely across a multitude of sports.

Closing the Saturday with the men's decathlon 1500m instead of the women's 100m final was a brain dead scheduling decision as well.

It probably gave the decathletes a little longer to rest up though!

 

[GIMH]

It probably gave the decathletes a little longer to rest up though!

It’s obviously this

Have to disagree with the multi-event hatred. I’m still exhausted from the day I competed in 800m, Shot Put and both relays for Wirral AC Juniors, 23 years later.

 

[ripper868]

As the grade 6 (12yo) age champion for my school (from a class of 15ish) - can confirm the multi-sport events are worthy and have their place. Even if they are won by slightly above average at everything athletes who would be wiped by any of the specialists.

 

[Molehill]

As the grade 6 (12yo) age champion for my school (from a class of 15ish) - can confirm the multi-sport events are worthy and have their place. Even if they are won by slightly above average at everything athletes who would be wiped by any of the specialists.

Jackie Joyner-Kersee would like a word.....and I think there are plenty of other examples. Daley Thompson was always part of the relay team he was that good a sprinter.

 

[ripper868]

from quick googling, JJK seems to be the only example of winning gold in a 'specialist' event (long jump in her case). With occasional silver/bronze or instances of 'the jump would be good enough for'.

I'm not disputing that they aren't great athletes, there is a skill to being good at everything, and it should be acknowledged, hence the existence of the hep/pentathlons.

I don't think saying they'd be beaten by the specialists is much of a stretch.

 

[BoyBrumby]

Eunice Barber (who never won a heptathlon Olympic title, but I remember her for being Denise Lewis's main oppo back in the day) was a good enough long jumper to win the 2003 World Championships too.