If you could get rid of one Olympic sport, which would it be?

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A bit of a tounge in cheek post given the current threat to horse sports - if it was up to you which Olympic sport would you bin?

Synchronised swimming is first to bin on my list - I kind of appreciate the skill involved by just why?!
 
I do not have a problem with any of the above being in as they are minority sports (boxing perhaps not). My hate is the big time sports like Tennis, Golf, Football. No way should they be in the Olympics. There are other sports more deserving of the exposure
 
Football as there are already so many big football competitions and footballers are already overpaid and too many badly behaved supporters as well.
 
All of the ones mentioned so far. There's nothing about physical endurance about any of them. To my mind, that is what the Olympic spirit should be about - highest, fastest, heaviest lifting, furthest throwing, the one closest to being without fault... :)
 
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I'd get rid of golf and then football. ..

The golf is a real farce, maybe if they had restricted to amateurs it would be different.

Fiona
 
Beach volleyball be gone!

Don't agree with boxing being prehistoric. What spectators see is the people hitting eachother.

What people who appreciate the sport see is the discipline and respect that goes on behind the scenes. You see those idiots like mayweather and Tyson fury trash talking eachother and causing ruckus but the sport is actually about respecting your opponent and respecting yourself.

Boxing gave me a bit direction in life when I was younger, at a time when I couldn't afford to ride, and I wasn't having the best time at home. It gave me somewhere to be, and people to look up to. It's an ancient sport, and is stuck about for the right reasons IMO.
 
Football and golf for sure, for the reasons already mentioned. Thankgod we don't have darts!!
Can cope with most of the others, don't know a thing about 'handball'? (just looked at the list of all sports) and I do think synchronised swimming is a bit puzzling!
 
Football, golf, tennis. Love seeing less seen sports on TV, I got right into the fencing last night.

As a nomination for new sports I'd say squash, and I've heard surfing will be in in 2020 which I personally think is great
 
Seriously? I'd remove all the equestrian sport. You can't get there without equipment (the horse) worth many hundreds of thousands of pounds. It costs ridiculous amounts of money to transport and support that equipment, and it's as elitist as you can possibly get.

It's a farce when the eventing is reduced in height and difficulty to a three star instead of a four star to give more countries a chance.

The starving poor of Rio (and there are a lot of them) have been making it clear how they feel about the kind of money that's been spent on building the equestrian venue.
 
Oops, sorry, got a bit serious there!

Synchronised swimming and rhythmic gymnastics, definitely!
 
Golf. tennis football, darts. snooker/billiards. and gurning
Replace with cheese rolling, pub skittles/boules and caber tossing, and horsehoes round-a-post
 
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Anything where the Olympics isn't the pinnacle of that sport. Things like golf, football, tennis - they'd clearly rather win a masters/World Cup.

I still don't understand how squash and netball aren't included.
 
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Anything where the Olympics isn't the pinnacle of that sport. Things like golf, football, tennis - they'd clearly rather win a masters/World Cup.
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I'd never thought about it like that, but it perfectly ties in with my opinions!

And I wouldn't get rid of beach volleyball, but I'd change the outfits. Either put the women in full clothing, or put the men in skimpy little speedos!
 
Lexi_ said:
Anything where the Olympics isn't the pinnacle of that sport. Things like golf, football, tennis - they'd clearly rather win a masters/World Cup.

I still don't understand how squash and netball aren't included.
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This!!

I'd also get rid of Fencing - it's far more boring than even Golf...
 
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Anything where the Olympics isn't the pinnacle of that sport. Things like golf, football, tennis - they'd clearly rather win a masters/World Cup.
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This is a great thought actually. It would mean our eventing would go though! I do see the sense in it not being included though.
 
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