The Olympics need to be reformed. There are many things wrong with it. Take a look at the number of events now in the Olympics(http://www.olympic.org/uk/sports/index_uk.asp). Here are some suggestions to get things moving in the right direction (of course they will happen only if first the way the Olympics is run is reformed).
1) All the sports that have a substantial number of their own premiere tournaments do not need to be included here. Tennis is a prime example. Tennis has four grand slam tournaments every year and the ATP and WTA tours and the year ending championships. It also has the Davis cup, another dinosaur that needs to be laid to rest.
2) All sports where one country is so far superior to the rest that the competition is a joke need to be dropped (Actually these days if ICC implemented this policy Australia would be left playing by itself). Examples are baseball, basketball where the U.S. does not even bother to send its top players and softball where U.S. domination is a given.
3) Take out hybrids like pentathlon, triathlon, decathlon.
4) Swimming events need to be cut down by a lot. There does not need to be a medal for each kind of stroke that exists on the earth. Leading to absurdities like one guy winning seven medals for using seven different pedals.
5) Take out all sorts of relay events.
The Olympics need to slim down a lot and these are just the first few suggestions.
Subscribe to:
Post Comments (Atom)
No comments:
Post a Comment