# New Olympic sports you'd like to see **URL:** \ **Category:** The Game Room\ **Created:** [February 20, 2014, 3:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-olympic-sports-youd-like-to-see/681770 "2014-02-20T03:42:23Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![Spiderman](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/spiderman/32/230_2.png) [@Spiderman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spiderman)\ **Post date:** [February 20, 2014, 8:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-olympic-sports-youd-like-to-see/681770/41 "2014-02-20T20:20:27Z")
> [@Leaffan](#): > > Golf. Golf would be an awesome Olympic sport. Any _activity_ where, on a regular basis, there is a scantily clad/nude woman driving around delivering you beers can hardly be called a sport. ---
**Author:** ![Boyo\_Jim](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/87869e/32.png) [@Boyo\_Jim](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Boyo_Jim)\ **Post date:** [February 20, 2014, 8:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-olympic-sports-youd-like-to-see/681770/42 "2014-02-20T20:32:06Z")
Synchronized farting. Pie eating. ---
**Author:** ![Jackknifed\_Juggernaut](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/9de053/32.png) [@Jackknifed\_Juggernaut](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jackknifed_Juggernaut)\ **Post date:** [February 20, 2014, 8:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-olympic-sports-youd-like-to-see/681770/43 "2014-02-20T20:35:37Z")
> [@Baron\_Greenback](#): > > Golf’s back in 2016 - open to pro golfers. And also will be in 2020. There are some issues though, like which country Rory McIlroy will play for: > **[Harig: Olympic-sized questions about golf](https://www.espn.com/golf/story/_/id/10464853/olympic-sized-questions-golf)** > > With Olympics on the brain for many sports fans, just what will the competition look like when golf returns to the Games for the first time since 1904? ESPN.com's Bob Harig examines many of the issues. ---
**Author:** ![ElvisL1ves](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/5daacb/32.png) [@ElvisL1ves](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ElvisL1ves)\ **Post date:** [February 20, 2014, 8:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-olympic-sports-youd-like-to-see/681770/44 "2014-02-20T20:36:01Z")
> [@Spiderman](#): > > Any _activity_ where, on a regular basis, there is a scantily clad/nude woman driving around delivering you beers can hardly be called a sport. Could nude beer-delivering be an Olympic sport, though? ---
**Author:** ![That\_Don\_Guy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/that_don_guy/32/538_2.png) [@That\_Don\_Guy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/That_Don_Guy)\ **Post date:** [February 20, 2014, 8:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-olympic-sports-youd-like-to-see/681770/45 "2014-02-20T20:36:09Z")
What surprises me is, there are over 40 posts so far and not one mentioned karate. (Of course, the minute they do add karate, or wushu, and then the home audience realizes the event is nothing like the tournament in _The Karate Kid_, they’ll want it taken out again. I have a feeling the minute roller skating is added and people realize it’s not inline skating, and certainly no inline roller hockey, the same thing would happen.) If I could choose one to add: netball. I think the main reason it’s not in is, there isn’t really any top-level men’s netball, and the IOC wants to add sports open to both sexes. Given that restriction, and given that golf and rugby are already added, I would select powerlifting, although there might be a fight for control over it between the international weightlifting and powerlifting federations, the way the international skiing federation runs Olympic snowboarding. ---
**Author:** ![ElvisL1ves](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/5daacb/32.png) [@ElvisL1ves](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ElvisL1ves)\ **Post date:** [February 20, 2014, 8:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-olympic-sports-youd-like-to-see/681770/46 "2014-02-20T20:46:19Z")
Why just karate, and not MMA? Why add netball if there’s already women’s basketball? ---
**Author:** ![Busy\_Scissors](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/d78d45/32.png) [@Busy\_Scissors](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Busy_Scissors)\ **Post date:** [February 20, 2014, 9:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-olympic-sports-youd-like-to-see/681770/47 "2014-02-20T21:53:32Z")
My favourite sport, mountain biking, is actually represented at the olympics. Unfortunately, it sucks as a spectacle in the XC form. Downhill mountain biking would be an obvious improvement, as it’s exciting to watch - big logistical issues, though, and some of the turnips who ride DH don’t want to compromise the X-games image of the sport. An inspired choice would be to include cyclocross racing. 1 hr races on easy-ish off-road (e.g. a field) done on road-like bikes with slightly bigger tyres. A CX race is the most brutal hour you could ever spend on a bike - makes for an exciting event and one that has huge heritage and popularity within the sport. Be a good and credible addition to the games IMO. ETA: Just googling this now and apparently there are serious talks to add CX to the winter olympics (?) It’s a winter sport, traditionally, but it’s done on grass and mud, not snow. Be interesting to see what happens there. ---
**Author:** ![Lord\_Mondegreen](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/91b2a8/32.png) [@Lord\_Mondegreen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lord_Mondegreen)\ **Post date:** [February 20, 2014, 10:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-olympic-sports-youd-like-to-see/681770/48 "2014-02-20T22:43:29Z")
> [@ElvisL1ves](#): > > Why add netball if there’s already women’s basketball? Because they are completely different sports? At least here in Australia (and I suspect this applies to all countries) not one international representative in basketball has represented the country in netball, and vice versa. ---
**Author:** ![JerrySTL](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/e274bd/32.png) [@JerrySTL](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JerrySTL)\ **Post date:** [February 20, 2014, 11:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-olympic-sports-youd-like-to-see/681770/49 "2014-02-20T23:49:01Z")
> [@Busy\_Scissors](#): > > My favourite sport, mountain biking, is actually represented at the olympics. Unfortunately, it sucks as a spectacle in the XC form. Downhill mountain biking would be an obvious improvement, as it’s exciting to watch - big logistical issues, though, and some of the turnips who ride DH don’t want to compromise the X-games image of the sport. > An inspired choice would be to include cyclocross racing. 1 hr races on easy-ish off-road (e.g. a field) done on road-like bikes with slightly bigger tyres. A CX race is the most brutal hour you could ever spend on a bike - makes for an exciting event and one that has huge heritage and popularity within the sport. Be a good and credible addition to the games IMO. > > ETA: Just googling this now and apparently there are serious talks to add CX to the winter olympics (?) It’s a winter sport, traditionally, but it’s done on grass and mud, not snow. Be interesting to see what happens there. I agree that cyclocross would be an awesome addition to the Winter Olympics. I watched the CX World Championships in Louisville a couple of years ago. It was nothing but snow and mud and great to watch. I think that the rules would need a slight change from a sport being played on snow or ice to include outdoor sports played during the winter. ---
**Author:** ![Tom\_Tildrum](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/e95f7d/32.png) [@Tom\_Tildrum](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tom_Tildrum)\ **Post date:** [February 20, 2014, 11:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-olympic-sports-youd-like-to-see/681770/50 "2014-02-20T23:59:02Z")
Slightly off-topic, but it amuses me to imagine that the curlers also yell like that during sex. “Hard! HAAAAAAARD!” ---
**Author:** ![snowthx](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/snowthx/32/10660_2.png) [@snowthx](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/snowthx)\ **Post date:** [February 21, 2014, 12:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-olympic-sports-youd-like-to-see/681770/51 "2014-02-21T00:19:06Z")
Since curling is so wildly popular in these Olympics, why not bring back/introduce other “games”: - Lawn Darts - Croquet - Shuffleboard - Cornhole - Darts To make things more interesting, competitors would need to do shots of the host country’s national drink - in this case vodka, in S Korea it will be soju, etc. prior to each throw. ---
**Author:** ![Hypno-Toad](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/b2d939/32.png) [@Hypno-Toad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hypno-Toad)\ **Post date:** [February 21, 2014, 2:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-olympic-sports-youd-like-to-see/681770/52 "2014-02-21T02:29:37Z")
Imagine telling people that your friend is a gold-medal cornholer. How about Olympic Calvinball? ---
**Author:** ![Sleel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/73ab20/32.png) [@Sleel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sleel)\ **Post date:** [February 21, 2014, 8:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-olympic-sports-youd-like-to-see/681770/53 "2014-02-21T08:14:22Z")
> [@Ethilrist](#): > > Western Martial Arts, live steel (rebated) with real medieval replica armor. I could totally get behind Western martial arts. Fencing has become a gross parody of real swordfighting and could honestly be dispensed with. Parkour is expressly non-competitive. One of the few things the divergent tricking vs. utility factions agree on is that you help people progress, not try to prove you’re better than them. > [@Are there any sports women are equal to, or have an advantage over men?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-there-any-sports-women-are-equal-to-or-have-an-advantage-over-men/681793/46): > > Diving? The women seem more flexible and perhaps splash less than men. Does not appear to require brute strength as much as strength with finesse. Diving rules would have to be changed. Right now, there’s a Degree of Difficulty (DD) multiplier added to the score. The most difficult dives involve, obviously, more flips and twists, and the top men again outperform the top women. Rock climbing, again, nope. The top men outperform the top women, though women are far more competitive against men than they are in most other sports. My votes: [ul] [li]Paintball[/li][li]MMA or the original version, Pankration[/li][li]Roller derby[/li][li]Archery biathlon[/li][li]Strongman competition[/li][/ul] ---
**Author:** ![Aquadementia](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/aquadementia/32/555_2.png) [@Aquadementia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Aquadementia)\ **Post date:** [February 21, 2014, 1:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-olympic-sports-youd-like-to-see/681770/54 "2014-02-21T13:39:49Z")
> [@Sleel](#): > > I could totally get behind Western martial arts. Fencing has become a gross parody of real swordfighting and could honestly be dispensed with. They should introduce a new category to sword fighting: Swashbuckling. The arena will be the deck of a pirate ship. ---
**Author:** ![snowthx](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/snowthx/32/10660_2.png) [@snowthx](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/snowthx)\ **Post date:** [February 21, 2014, 2:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-olympic-sports-youd-like-to-see/681770/55 "2014-02-21T14:02:00Z")
> [@Sleel](#): > > I could totally get behind Western martial arts. Fencing has become a gross parody of real swordfighting and could honestly be dispensed with. > > Parkour is expressly non-competitive. One of the few things the divergent tricking vs. utility factions agree on is that you help people progress, not try to prove you’re better than them. > > Diving rules would have to be changed. Right now, there’s a Degree of Difficulty (DD) multiplier added to the score. The most difficult dives involve, obviously, more flips and twists, and the top men again outperform the top women. > > Rock climbing, again, nope. The top men outperform the top women, though women are far more competitive against men than they are in most other sports. > > My votes: > [ul] > [li]Paintball[/li][li]MMA or the original version, Pankration[/li][li]Roller derby[/li][li]Archery biathlon[/li][li]Strongman competition[/li][/ul] Whoa. Did you cross threads? The middle part of that post seems to relate to [another thread](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=716263) here. ---
**Author:** ![ElvisL1ves](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/5daacb/32.png) [@ElvisL1ves](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ElvisL1ves)\ **Post date:** [February 21, 2014, 2:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-olympic-sports-youd-like-to-see/681770/56 "2014-02-21T14:03:17Z")
> [@Aquadementia](#): > > They should introduce a new category to sword fighting: Swashbuckling. Followed by prancing, mincing, and sashaying. Both sprint and distance events. ---
**Author:** ![ElvisL1ves](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/5daacb/32.png) [@ElvisL1ves](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ElvisL1ves)\ **Post date:** [February 21, 2014, 2:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-olympic-sports-youd-like-to-see/681770/57 "2014-02-21T14:04:22Z")
> [@snowthx](#): > > Since curling is so wildly popular in these Olympics, why not bring back/introduce other “games”: > > - Lawn Darts > - Croquet > - Shuffleboard > - Cornhole > - Darts Olympic Beer Pong. ---
**Author:** ![RickJay](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/bb73d2/32.png) [@RickJay](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RickJay)\ **Post date:** [February 21, 2014, 2:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-olympic-sports-youd-like-to-see/681770/58 "2014-02-21T14:40:55Z")
> [@ElvisL1ves](#): > > Why just karate, and not MMA? Does MMA have an international amateur federation? The Olympics does not so much add sports as they add international sporting organizations. The IOC is dependent upon those organizations. Without a clear representative of the sport internationally, it can’t be an Olympic sport. ---
**Author:** ![Sicks\_Ate](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/258eb7/32.png) [@Sicks\_Ate](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sicks_Ate)\ **Post date:** [February 21, 2014, 2:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-olympic-sports-youd-like-to-see/681770/59 "2014-02-21T14:41:19Z")
Hole digging. No really…digging is hard. Ever tried it? ---
**Author:** ![Spiderman](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/spiderman/32/230_2.png) [@Spiderman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spiderman)\ **Post date:** [February 21, 2014, 2:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-olympic-sports-youd-like-to-see/681770/60 "2014-02-21T14:44:32Z")
> [@ElvisL1ves](#): > > Followed by prancing, mincing, and sashaying. Both sprint and distance events. Ooohhhh, I know: [Prance-rcise](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o-50GjySwew)!!! [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-olympic-sports-youd-like-to-see/681770.md?page=2) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-olympic-sports-youd-like-to-see/681770.md?page=4)