Which sports would you like added to the Olympics? (star, medals, Packers)

[mattyj46]

Originally Posted by Packersnut21

See you posted MENS results. If you look at what I said you would have seen:

1988 Women:
Individual:
1st Kim Soo Nyung, KOR
2nd:Wang Hee Kyung, KOR
3rd: Yun Young Sook, KOR
Team
1st:South Korea
1992 Women
Individual
1st:Cho Youn-Jeong, S. Kor
2nd:Kim Nyung Soo, S. Kor
Team
1st:South Korea
1996 Women
Individual
1st Kim Kyung-Wook, S. Kor
Team
1st:South Korea
2000 Women
Individual
1st: Yun Mi-Jin Kor
2nd: Kim Nam-Soon Kor
3rd: Kim Soo-Nyung Kor
Team
1st South Korea

I got my info from wiki and info please:
Archery at the 2000 Summer Olympics - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Summer Olympics Through The Years — Infoplease.com


Looks like if you did your research more throughly you would see my archery point succeeded. Just like womens softball, the Korean women arcchery team had won a gold medal every year since 1988. So I guess we should get rid of women archery right? I mean they have dominated just like the US womens softball.

I was talking about the men, so my theroy is correct. I see your point proves right in womans in Womans archery events but I don't know if I would get rid of it just yet given that there have been previous winners from other countries. And yes they have dominated but there have been previous winners from other countires unlike what there have been in Softball and there has been more competition as seen below.

Rank Nation Gold Silver Bronze Total
1 South Korea 15 7 4 26
2 United States 14 9 8 31
3 Belgium 11 5 4 20
4 France 6 10 6 22
5 Great Britain 2 2 5 9
6 Soviet Union 1 3 3 7
7 Italy 1 1 3 5
8 Finland 1 1 2 4
9 Australia 1 0 1 2
10 Netherlands 1 0 1 2
11 Spain 1 0 0 1
12 China 0 4 0 4
13 Japan 0 2 1 3
14 Poland 0 2 0 2
14 Sweden 0 2 0 2
16 Ukraine 0 1 2 3
17 Chinese Taipei 0 1 1 2
Germany 0 1 1 2
19 Indonesia 0 1 0 1
20 Unified Team 0 0 2 2

And for the bolded bit

"Thats is a dumb reason to get rid of an event. How about Korea winning gold every year in archery from the 80's up until this year. By your logic Basketball would have been done away with in the 90's because the Dream Team beat everyone just as badly, but looked what happened other teams caught up. If other countries want to compete with us in softball get better at it. They are just getting rid of it because the USA is the best at it. If it were China it would still be there."

You did not state anything about Men's or Womans so they have not won every gold in archery from the 80's up, the women have from 1984 upwards but Korea have not won every gold.

[Packersnut21]

Originally Posted by mattyj46

I was talking about the men, so my theroy is correct. I see your point proves right in womans in Womans archery events but I don't know if I would get rid of it just yet given that there have been previous winners from other countries. And yes they have dominated but there have been previous winners from other countires unlike what there have been in Softball and there has been more competition as seen below.

Rank Nation Gold Silver Bronze Total
1 South Korea 15 7 4 26
2 United States 14 9 8 31
3 Belgium 11 5 4 20
4 France 6 10 6 22
5 Great Britain 2 2 5 9
6 Soviet Union 1 3 3 7
7 Italy 1 1 3 5
8 Finland 1 1 2 4
9 Australia 1 0 1 2
10 Netherlands 1 0 1 2
11 Spain 1 0 0 1
12 China 0 4 0 4
13 Japan 0 2 1 3
14 Poland 0 2 0 2
14 Sweden 0 2 0 2
16 Ukraine 0 1 2 3
17 Chinese Taipei 0 1 1 2
Germany 0 1 1 2
19 Indonesia 0 1 0 1
20 Unified Team 0 0 2 2

And for the bolded bit

"Thats is a dumb reason to get rid of an event. How about Korea winning gold every year in archery from the 80's up until this year. By your logic Basketball would have been done away with in the 90's because the Dream Team beat everyone just as badly, but looked what happened other teams caught up. If other countries want to compete with us in softball get better at it. They are just getting rid of it because the USA is the best at it. If it were China it would still be there."

You did not state anything about Men's or Womans so they have not won every gold in archery from the 80's up, the women have from 1984 upwards but Korea have not won every gold.

My point was women play softball it's a womens sport in the Olympics, so I referenced womens archery. Then we should get rid of womens archery, why not they have won every year for more years than the US womens softball team. The Olympics are about competition instead of getting rid of an event because one team is great in it shouldn't the other countries try and catch up? isn't that what competition is about? Not, well we lose every time so we should just give up, but lets try and work harder to beat these guys. Thats what basketball teams around the world did to catch up to us.

[mattyj46]

Originally Posted by Packersnut21

My point was women play softball it's a womens sport in the Olympics, so I referenced womens archery. Then we should get rid of womens archery, why not they have won every year for more years than the US womens softball team. The Olympics are about competition instead of getting rid of an event because one team is great in it shouldn't the other countries try and catch up? isn't that what competition is about? Not, well we lose every time so we should just give up, but lets try and work harder to beat these guys. Thats what basketball teams around the world did to catch up to us.

Oh yup fair enough, womens archery is not like mens, Mens archery for me is there to stay because of the high amount of competition. I think that Softball will have the chance to come back into the olympics in the future when more of the world catch onto it, I for one know that New Zealand have a good team but don't know why they did not make it into the olympics.

[Packersnut21]

Originally Posted by mattyj46

Oh yup fair enough, womens archery is not like mens, Mens archery for me is there to stay because of the high amount of competition. I think that Softball will have the chance to come back into the olympics in the future when more of the world catch onto it, I for one know that New Zealand have a good team but don't know why they did not make it into the olympics.

Fair enough. Not like you and I even have a voice in the matter, and who knows by 2016 maybe it will be back.

[Mach50]

MMA is the next logical step, wrestling, judo, boxing, tae know do are already in there.

[mimimomx3]

Golf and lacrosse....both are great sports for men and women. I don't see car racing of any kind, formula 1 or nascar, as 'sports'. Bowling? No. Trampoline? No. Ballroom dancing? No. Ribbon twirling? No.

[krudmonk]

Golf is probably the most international sport missing, but it cannot be contained in a specially-built, super-expensive arena.

[Bob The Builder]

Bowling would be a hoot.

But Roller Derby ahhhhh.

[Stormcrow73]

Originally Posted by mimimomx3

Golf and lacrosse....both are great sports for men and women. I don't see car racing of any kind, formula 1 or nascar, as 'sports'. Bowling? No. Trampoline? No. Ballroom dancing? No. Ribbon twirling? No.

They showed some of the trampolining last night. My only thought was, "WHY???" I'd much rather see bowling as an olympic sport than that. At least bowling has some tradition and history not that it's something to get excited about.

[garylee]

Chinese Gongfu ! just like Tai Ji Quan.
exercisable and graceful !

additionally,
Billiards is a nice choice , right?