Olympics to Drop Wrestling

[Lord of the Fraud]

Ya seriously didn't know.

Baseball gets very little coverage here at all (if any) so not something I'd know unless I researched it myself. And that would likely also apply to almost the rest of Europe.


And yeah I coulda researched my own questions on the sport and saved any kind of discussion at all.


But isn't part of the reason we're all here is to express opinions?


BAP seemed happy enough to discuss it without spazzing out.


Pretty funny that you bomb into a harmless thread with your pants down and guns blazing though.

Pointing out that you are a dipshit is not "guns blazing". You are just as clueless about this as you are everything else. Baseball is only popular in the US and Japan? That isn't a point of discussion, that is a ticket to the short bus.

Could be way off, but isn't it only America and maybe Japan? who play the game professionally or to any kind of decent standard.

This is what I said. Basically announcing that I know I'm probably way off with my presumption.

I could ask this forum how many nations play snooker/cricket/darts and I'd say 80% of them wouldn't know OR care. And why would they? Basically same with me and baseball.

Oh and you do know that your balls are showing, right?

[Anal_Hershiser]

I could ask this forum how many nations play snooker/cricket/darts and I'd say 80% of them wouldn't know OR care.

Just because you are an ignorant dumbfuck, don't assume everyone else is as well. Lol @ thinking people wouldn't know who plays snooker/cricket/darts.

[Lord of the Fraud]

I could ask this forum how many nations play snooker/cricket/darts and I'd say 80% of them wouldn't know OR care.

Just because you are an ignorant dumbfuck, don't assume everyone else is as well. Lol @ thinking people wouldn't know who plays snooker/cricket/darts.

So you knew that Kenya, The Netherlands, Ireland, Afghanistan, Canada and other play regular international cricket? Sure you did fella.

And you also knew that just a couple of years ago that an Australian was the snooker world champion? Of course you did.

Automatically presuming that you new this years runner up in the world championship of darts was Dutch and just a few years before that the champ was a Canadian?


You've been absolutely awful for days now.

I think you have peaked already.


Now go lie down lol

[GrenadaRoger]

per the Wall Stree Journal article on the move:

The move to drop wrestling, which has been in every modern Olympics since the inaugural 1896 Athens Games except 1900, reflects the IOC's attempts to innovate to lure younger fans. In recent years the Olympics had added emerging sports such as beach volleyball and BMX cycling.

the IOC commissioned a review of Olympic sports that said wrestling had a "lack of global popularity" as well as "relatively low broadcast and press coverage."


So lets fix wrestling's TV problem: go nude & co-ed in a jello pit...

[Belly Buster]

thread useless without pics

[Anal_Hershiser]

Just because you are an ignorant dumbfuck, don't assume everyone else is as well. Lol @ thinking people wouldn't know who plays snooker/cricket/darts.

1. So you knew that Kenya, The Netherlands, Ireland, Afghanistan, Canada and other play regular international cricket? Sure you did fella.

2. And you also knew that just a couple of years ago that an Australian was the snooker world champion? Of course you did.

3. Automatically presuming that you new this years runner up in the world championship of darts was Dutch and just a few years before that the champ was a Canadian?


You've been absolutely awful for days now.

I think you have peaked already.


Now go lie down lol

1. Yeah. Don't you dipshits have ESPN and Sportscenter in the UK?

2. I said I knew what it was and who played it, I didn't say I was a fucking fan. Reading comprehension ftw.

3. See #2

So now according to you- 5400 > 6000 and only the US and Japan play baseball



UK logic for the colossal loss.

[DJ_Chaps]

Ya seriously didn't know.

Baseball gets very little coverage here at all (if any) so not something I'd know unless I researched it myself. And that would likely also apply to almost the rest of Europe.


And yeah I coulda researched my own questions on the sport and saved any kind of discussion at all.


But isn't part of the reason we're all here is to express opinions?


BAP seemed happy enough to discuss it without spazzing out.


Pretty funny that you bomb into a harmless thread with your pants down and guns blazing though.

Pointing out that you are a dipshit is not "guns blazing". You are just as clueless about this as you are everything else. Baseball is only popular in the US and Japan? That isn't a point of discussion, that is a ticket to the short bus.

Fuck off, son, you're always looking for a good spot to shoot your little pecker off. Don't lie. Always horny for a lil internet heat. You play the heel role well, don't get me wrong, but fuck sakes, step out of character from time to time.

[Anal_Hershiser]

Pointing out that you are a dipshit is not "guns blazing". You are just as clueless about this as you are everything else. Baseball is only popular in the US and Japan? That isn't a point of discussion, that is a ticket to the short bus.

Fuck off, son, you're always looking for a good spot to shoot your little pecker off. Don't lie. Always horny for a lil internet heat. You play the heel role well, don't get me wrong, but fuck sakes, step out of character from time to time.

That might mean something to me if I had any idea who you were before I just read your post. I don't. So it doesn't.

[DJ_Chaps]

Fuck off, son, you're always looking for a good spot to shoot your little pecker off. Don't lie. Always horny for a lil internet heat. You play the heel role well, don't get me wrong, but fuck sakes, step out of character from time to time.

That might mean something to me if I had any idea who you were before I just read your post. I don't. So it doesn't.

ATTA TUCK THAT DICK, FAGGOT. YOU KNOW WHO I AM.

[Lannister]

That might mean something to me if I had any idea who you were before I just read your post. I don't. So it doesn't.

ATTA TUCK THAT DICK, FAGGOT. YOU KNOW WHO I AM.

361 posts and I have no idea who you are either.

[DJ_Chaps]

ATTA TUCK THAT DICK, FAGGOT. YOU KNOW WHO I AM.

361 posts and I have no idea who you are either.

21 posts and....... 21 posts.

[Lannister]

361 posts and I have no idea who you are either.

21 posts and....... 21 posts.

I'm not claiming people should know me though. It appears you have an inflated sense of self-purpose when the person you are attacking doesn't even know your name or anything you have posted in 361 instances.

Time to go back to lurking friend.

[DJ_Chaps]

21 posts and....... 21 posts.

I'm not claiming people should know me though. It appears you have an inflated sense of self-purpose when the person you are attacking doesn't even know your name or anything you have posted in 361 instances.

Time to go back to lurking friend.

step 1 read a bible, i am mentioned throughout.

step 2 learn to respect those of higher standing then yourself.

step 3 perhaps go find another site to lurk and play freerolls on, scrub

[DJ_Chaps]

Azzclown doesn't need some 13er faggot white knighting for him. He is more than capable of firing back for himself.


anyway, time to go smoke weed on the internet.



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[Lannister]

I'm not claiming people should know me though. It appears you have an inflated sense of self-purpose when the person you are attacking doesn't even know your name or anything you have posted in 361 instances.

Time to go back to lurking friend.

step 1 read a bible, i am mentioned throughout.

step 2 learn to respect those of higher standing then yourself.

step 3 perhaps go find another site to lurk and play freerolls on, scrub

than *

[DJ_Chaps]

heh n1

[Anal_Hershiser]

21 posts and....... 21 posts.

I'm not claiming people should know me though. It appears you have an inflated sense of self-purpose when the person you are attacking doesn't even know your name or anything you have posted in 361 instances.

Time to go back to lurking friend.

If people asked me who Lannister was, I could tell them he is a poster of PFA. Even if it's just because the name sounded odd to me so I remembered it. But I honestly have no fucking clue who djchaps is. Should I?

[DJ_Chaps]

Naw, you prolly should forget the vast number of times you've disappeared from threads after I have pushed your shit in for you.

[Anal_Hershiser]

Naw, you prolly should forget the vast number of times you've disappeared from threads after I have pushed your shit in for you.

Well, seeing as I still have no idea who you are, maybe you did. Congratulations?

[sonatine]

I have to assume there is more to this than we know.

Wrestling was one of the first Olympic sports.

The only three reasons to dump it I can imagine are:

* that its become a major locus for doping violations and the IOC has basically admitted it will never have the resources to properly police for them (which is 100% true of course)

* there is something in the rules that introduces a bureaucratic overhead to it that they can no longer afford eg something in the appeals process or whatever.

* the scoring criteria are subjective enough to undermine public faith in reasonable/fair results

Its strange because wrestling seemed to be one of the only sports where concerns #2 and #3 werent overwhelmingly obvious.

Its also strange because its such a huge portion of the programming for the Olympics. Real talk; does anyone in the fucking world actually watch water polo coverage? Because as it stands, I seem to recall about 30% of the NBC coverage being water polo this summer. Am I to understand that Im so divorced from contemporary aesthetics that water polo, badmitton, and womens field hockey somehow satisfy the requirements for compelling programming?

Other fun facts that are going to be swept under the rug by media forever:

The IOC is hilariously and notoriously corrupt.

China has absolutely no dece wrestlers, but a bleeding edge state mandated doping program and huge volumes of cash.

Oh whatever. The only people who benefit from the Olympics at all at this point are pharmaceutical labs, American television networks, and IOC committee members.

Having grown up during a period when the Olympics were actually relevant and interesting and not a brazen circus of experimental doping, what we are left with at this point wont be missed if it vanished tomorrow.