# Current Olympic sports you want to get rid of

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/current-olympic-sports-you-want-to-get-rid-of/681968>\
**Category:** The Game Room\
**Created:** [February 22, 2014, 8:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/current-olympic-sports-you-want-to-get-rid-of/681968 "2014-02-22T20:11:14Z")\
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**Post date:** [February 28, 2014, 3:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/current-olympic-sports-you-want-to-get-rid-of/681968/61 "2014-02-28T03:16:03Z")

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That Don Guy - The Grand Slam is four specific events. I find including the Olympics at best spurious. If some second-tier star or up-and-comer wants to celebrate it, fine, but you can’t tell me that it has the same prestige.

And yeah, speed skiing, that’s what I meant. Don’t need to see that again either.

Oh, yeah, almost forgot…boxing. A complete joke to begin with, and now absolutely no reason for it to exist now.

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