# Olympic sports you would like to see added... **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [February 28, 2000, 8:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/olympic-sports-you-would-like-to-see-added/14154 "2000-02-28T20:45:00Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![Barking\_Dog](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/ccd318/32.png) [@Barking\_Dog](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Barking_Dog)\ **Post date:** [August 7, 2016, 12:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/olympic-sports-you-would-like-to-see-added/14154/41 "2016-08-07T00:30:19Z")
How about necromancy? If so, resurrecting a sixteen year old zombie has to be some kind of record. Also I’d like to see Ninja Warrior and Australian rules Quidditch played. ---
**Author:** ![astorian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ad7895/32.png) [@astorian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/astorian)\ **Post date:** [August 7, 2016, 3:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/olympic-sports-you-would-like-to-see-added/14154/42 "2016-08-07T03:44:26Z")
Pin the Tail on the Donkey ---
**Author:** ![Vicsage](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/e68b1a/32.png) [@Vicsage](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Vicsage)\ **Post date:** [August 7, 2016, 3:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/olympic-sports-you-would-like-to-see-added/14154/43 "2016-08-07T03:51:50Z")
Tug of War, horse shoes, and an event called the long fall. In the long fall, athletes must jump off increasingly higher platforms onto a cement landing pad and may only land on their feet, no hands can touch down. ---
**Author:** ![scr4](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/59ef9b/32.png) [@scr4](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/scr4)\ **Post date:** [August 7, 2016, 2:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/olympic-sports-you-would-like-to-see-added/14154/44 "2016-08-07T14:33:04Z")
Zombie hunting. (Someone had to say it…) ---
**Author:** ![The\_Other\_Waldo\_Pepper](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/the_other_waldo_pepper/32/12370_2.png) [@The\_Other\_Waldo\_Pepper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Other_Waldo_Pepper)\ **Post date:** [August 7, 2016, 9:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/olympic-sports-you-would-like-to-see-added/14154/45 "2016-08-07T21:35:45Z")
It’s bad form to argue with someone who posted years ago – but somebody said ‘paintball’, and I agree entirely. I mean, if shooting stationary targets is an event, then moving targets who’d shoot back is just golden, right? We award medals for _boxing,_ not for Hit A Punching Bag; for _fencing,_ not Piñata. ---
**Author:** ![MacTech](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/c0e974/32.png) [@MacTech](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MacTech)\ **Post date:** [August 8, 2016, 12:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/olympic-sports-you-would-like-to-see-added/14154/46 "2016-08-08T00:37:26Z")
Olympic Calvinball ---
**Author:** ![Channing\_Idaho\_Banks](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/channing_idaho_banks/32/250_2.png) [@Channing\_Idaho\_Banks](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Channing_Idaho_Banks)\ **Post date:** [August 8, 2016, 2:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/olympic-sports-you-would-like-to-see-added/14154/47 "2016-08-08T02:04:59Z")
Tennis ball launcher! It’s a new sport! ---
**Author:** ![Defensive\_Indifference](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/defensive_indifference/32/6502_2.png) [@Defensive\_Indifference](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Defensive_Indifference)\ **Post date:** [August 8, 2016, 3:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/olympic-sports-you-would-like-to-see-added/14154/48 "2016-08-08T03:05:28Z")
> [@Jo3sh](#): > > Javelin catching. > > * * * > > A committee is a lifeform with six or more legs and no brain. Damn. I was ninja’d by over 16 years. ---
**Author:** ![TYphoonSignal8](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/e99b99/32.png) [@TYphoonSignal8](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TYphoonSignal8)\ **Post date:** [August 8, 2016, 9:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/olympic-sports-you-would-like-to-see-added/14154/49 "2016-08-08T09:21:35Z")
> [@The\_Other\_Waldo\_Pepper](#): > > It’s bad form to argue with someone who posted years ago – but somebody said ‘paintball’, and I agree entirely. I mean, if shooting stationary targets is an event, then moving targets who’d shoot back is just golden, right? We award medals for _boxing,_ not for Hit A Punching Bag; for _fencing,_ not Piñata. Nice thread revive. Paintball would be excellent. You’d get some superlative ex-Service participants. All those years spent training to shoot the other guys and never actually doing it would be an immense attraction for those people. ---
**Author:** ![Shoeless](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/shoeless/32/7099_2.png) [@Shoeless](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shoeless)\ **Post date:** [August 8, 2016, 12:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/olympic-sports-you-would-like-to-see-added/14154/50 "2016-08-08T12:49:49Z")
Full-contact night golf. ---
**Author:** ![Folacin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/folacin/32/3195_2.png) [@Folacin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Folacin)\ **Post date:** [August 8, 2016, 1:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/olympic-sports-you-would-like-to-see-added/14154/51 "2016-08-08T13:11:33Z")
> [@Vicsage](#): > > Tug of War, horse shoes, and an event called the long fall. In the long fall, athletes must jump off increasingly higher platforms onto a cement landing pad and may only land on their feet, no hands can touch down. Tug of war was an Olympic sport, and I agree it should come back. Heard on NPR this weekend that it was dropped when the Americans accused the British of playing fast and loose with the rules (something about “normal footwear” being required, and the British team being police/firefighters and wanting to wear their boots). As they said, it’s a simple sport that anyone can understand (pull the other team across the line - I always loved it on the old ABC team competitions), so let’s bring it back. ---
**Author:** ![Czarcasm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/czarcasm/32/4050_2.png) [@Czarcasm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Czarcasm)\ **Post date:** [August 8, 2016, 2:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/olympic-sports-you-would-like-to-see-added/14154/52 "2016-08-08T14:55:09Z")
> [@Folacin](#): > > As they said, it’s a simple sport that anyone can understand (pull the other team across the line - **I always loved it on the old ABC team competitions)**, so let’s bring it back. (bolding mine)Are you talking about “Battle Of The Network Stars”, when ABC, CBS and NBC would field teams of their current stars to compete against each other? ---
**Author:** ![Shagnasty](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/9dc877/32.png) [@Shagnasty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shagnasty)\ **Post date:** [August 8, 2016, 3:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/olympic-sports-you-would-like-to-see-added/14154/53 "2016-08-08T15:14:34Z")
I think they should just go full Hunger Games. I watched the tributes being presented during the Olympic opening ceremonies and there is no reason to play it out half-assed. You already have some of the best archers, swimmers, runners and shooters in the world right there. There is no reason to screw around with segregated events. Let them battle it out all at once. ---
**Author:** ![Folacin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/folacin/32/3195_2.png) [@Folacin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Folacin)\ **Post date:** [August 8, 2016, 3:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/olympic-sports-you-would-like-to-see-added/14154/54 "2016-08-08T15:21:56Z")
> [@Czarcasm](#): > > (bolding mine)Are you talking about “Battle Of The Network Stars”, when ABC, CBS and NBC would field teams of their current stars to compete against each other? That, and they also did one where the Super Bowl champs faced off against the World Series champs. I remember the first year they did that, baseball won tug of war. There was a total weight limit, and the football guys went with linemen. Baseball won, and the reason given was many feet (lots of smaller guys) were able to output several large men. ---
**Author:** ![YogSothoth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/y/8edcca/32.png) [@YogSothoth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/YogSothoth)\ **Post date:** [August 8, 2016, 3:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/olympic-sports-you-would-like-to-see-added/14154/55 "2016-08-08T15:57:01Z")
I’d like to see UFC-style MMA come to the Olympics. Its not as pretty as Tae Kwon Do or Judo or Boxing, but it would be nice to see full contact, almost-no-rules fighting. ---
**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:** [August 12, 2016, 1:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/olympic-sports-you-would-like-to-see-added/14154/56 "2016-08-12T01:38:17Z")
Turn team fencing into a true team event. Instead of a bunch of individual bouts have everyone fence at the same time in the style of the old pirate / swashbuckler movies, where after you defeat your opponent, you swing on a rope over to your teammate & the two of you gang up on their opponent. You win when the other team loses their last combatant. ---
**Author:** ![Sunspace](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sunspace/32/1250_2.png) [@Sunspace](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sunspace)\ **Post date:** [August 12, 2016, 1:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/olympic-sports-you-would-like-to-see-added/14154/57 "2016-08-12T01:55:53Z")
There’s got to be some way we can get some form of geocaching/orienteering/Pokémon Go in there. Alligator or bear wrestling. Some kind of marathon that includes ziplining, rock climbing. and teetering across those pivoting rotating suspended wooden supports that I couldn’t get past at [Cap Jaseux](http://www.quebecgetaways.com/cooperative-de-solidarite-du-cap-jaseux). And let’s also add some sports to the Winter Games: The fifty-metre driveway shovel. Synchonized Zamboni racing. (as a bonus, it gets the ice ready for the next hockey game…) Snowball fights! ---
**Author:** ![aceplace57](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/aceplace57/32/3500_2.png) [@aceplace57](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/aceplace57)\ **Post date:** [August 12, 2016, 3:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/olympic-sports-you-would-like-to-see-added/14154/58 "2016-08-12T03:38:46Z")
Huh, I just mentioned this in a game room thread The WPA (World Pool-Billiard Association) holds 9 Ball tournaments all over the world. The world 9 Ball championship is held annually. It could easily become an Olympic event. I love playing and watching 9 Ball. ---
**Author:** ![Pixel\_Dent](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/bc8723/32.png) [@Pixel\_Dent](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Pixel_Dent)\ **Post date:** [August 12, 2016, 2:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/olympic-sports-you-would-like-to-see-added/14154/59 "2016-08-12T14:33:17Z")
> [@DougC](#): > > - > - > - I’d like to see the whole event in it’s entirety televised, as a requirement for any broadcasting rights _at all_. A few years back the US women’s shooting team won the gold in one of the competitions, but in the US, none of the shooting sports are televised, ever, even at two o’clock in the goddamn morning, even when the country’s own team comes in first. It’s sad to say that it didn’t surprise me, but it’s still a total crock of shit. Most of the classical competitions are “summarized” during the “Olympic Sports Report”, though I realize that this is the olympic comittee’s own fault as they continue to add new, stupid “X-games” to boost revenues. It’s great that this thread was revived just so we can think about how far we’ve come in less than two decades. In 2000 it was pretty much impossible to see most of the sports in the Olympics. Now you can see every sport in its entirety with just a couple clicks. My wife wanted to see the Judo matches from yesterday… click click Bob’s your uncle. Add me to the list that thinks paintball would be awesome. ---
**Author:** ![RickJay](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/bb73d2/32.png) [@RickJay](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RickJay)\ **Post date:** [August 12, 2016, 2:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/olympic-sports-you-would-like-to-see-added/14154/60 "2016-08-12T14:42:44Z")
> [@Folacin](#): > > Tug of war was an Olympic sport, and I agree it should come back. Heard on NPR this weekend that it was dropped when the Americans accused the British of playing fast and loose with the rules (something about “normal footwear” being required, and the British team being police/firefighters and wanting to wear their boots). > > As they said, it’s a simple sport that anyone can understand (pull the other team across the line - I always loved it on the old ABC team competitions), so let’s bring it back. You need a recognized international tug of war association, one with a pretty high degree of organization and professionalism. The Olympics relies on those organizations to set the rules for the sport and for qualification. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/olympic-sports-you-would-like-to-see-added/14154.md?page=2) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/olympic-sports-you-would-like-to-see-added/14154.md?page=4)