the olympics

[Magpie]

are there any sports you think should be included in the next games. or any sport you think should be removed?

i think sports like fencing should be done without safety clothes, and boxing done with bare knuckles and without helmets. it's easy to show heart when you're all padded up but how good wood they be under those conditions.

I know this is an old thread but it seems appropriate again.

As for boxing Billy, they've actually scrapped the helmets for this Olympics as it's actually proven that it's safer without them... I don't think they'll ever stretch to bare knuckle boxing except in the winter olympics during an ice hockey match.

I'm not a big golf fan but I'm glad it's in the olympics, it's just a shame that a lot of the top golfers haven't turned up. 
I think cricket should be there as well but 20/20 cricket not that one where they play for 5 days then it rains and they call it a draw. After the success of rugby sevens at this olympics I think 20/20 cricket would be as equally successful.

As far as sports that should be scrapped from the olympics then football would be top of my list. I don't see the point. The olympics is about watching the best sportspeople in the world but the football tournament doesn't have the top players, perhaps 5 a side football would work better.

For new sports I think that combining two sports is the way forward for example clay pigeon shooting and golf. A golfer tees off then a farmer with a shotgun shoots the ball down.

On a more serious note I would like to see mixed relay races 4x100m and 4x400m two men and two women in each team. The only reason it won't work is because it would mean the same people from the womens and mens 100m and 400m running extra races, but it should happen. If Michael Phelps can swim 173 races in a week then surely sprinters can run an extra couple of races.

This Olympics so far is pretty good but the athletics starts today so for me it's only going to get better plus the fact that the events that Britain are good at (cycling and rowing) start having their finals so we should get quite a few gold in the next few days.

Alas, I feel that most poets don't give a damn about sport and the olympics so I'm probably talking to myself here... but I hope I'm wrong about that.