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I'm surprised NBC hasn't requested Americas Got Talent as an Olympic sport.

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Best part is breaking might be out? 

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am i the only one who hates this idea of having a sport only for 1 edition to satisfy the host country ?!   to me this is a terrible idea and Tommy Bach should go to jail for crime against h

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23 minutes ago, Jur said:

Karate and Breakdancing where both equaly terrible

I'd go for karate being significantly worse, since it felt so...negative. Like, a DQ for kicking too hard, all those kicks and punches that were - by design - more like 'almost hits' than actual hits, it felt more like a sort of dancing than actual fighting. Not to disrespect the athletes, I'm sure it's super tough to do, but for me as a viewer it really didn't feel like a sport where the participants were going all-out and for breaking I definitely did have that feeling (like in the men's final, where both athletes at the end were absolutely done in terms of energy left).

 

I'm aware holding back is kind of part of karate as a sport, but that's also why I just didn't like it in the slightest :p

 

 

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4 hours ago, heywoodu said:

I'd go for karate being significantly worse, since it felt so...negative. Like, a DQ for kicking too hard, all those kicks and punches that were - by design - more like 'almost hits' than actual hits, it felt more like a sort of dancing than actual fighting. Not to disrespect the athletes, I'm sure it's super tough to do, but for me as a viewer it really didn't feel like a sport where the participants were going all-out and for breaking I definitely did have that feeling (like in the men's final, where both athletes at the end were absolutely done in terms of energy left).

 

I'm aware holding back is kind of part of karate as a sport, but that's also why I just didn't like it in the slightest :p

 

 

 Ya, :KSA Hamedi being disqualified remains one of the most ridiculous things I’ve ever seen in any sporting event. I don’t know how justified it was within the WKF rules, but either way it felt really wrong.

 

I would be really disappointed if kumite ever came back to the Olympics. I would be okay with a return of kata, because it at least provides something completely different to the Olympics rather than being the world’s lamest combat sport. Plus at least if you KO your opponent in a kata competition there won’t be any controversy about the disqualification.

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6 hours ago, heywoodu said:

One of the best choices made for Paris 2024.

People can say what they will about how subjective breakdancing is, karate still managed to have more controversial officiating.

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Im really surprised to read about the breackdancing is the same or even better than karate, which for good or bad, is a martial art with a sport competition with many decades of developmente, in the other side we have just a type of dancing with jurys.......a non sport competition is the same or even better than a sport, ok.

 

The Karate can be or not part of the olympic games again, it doesnt changes the essence of the olympics in anyway, i hope i never listen about breackdancing again except in a movie, serie or watching some dudes dancing it in the streets.

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Im really surprised to read about the breackdancing is the same or even better than karate, which for good or bad, is a martial art with a sport competition with many decades of developmente, in the other side we have just a type of dancing with jurys.......a non sport competition is the same or even better than a sport, ok.

 

The Karate can be or not part of the olympic games again, it doesnt changes the essence of the olympics in anyway, i hope i never listen about breackdancing again except in a movie, serie or watching some dudes dancing it in the streets.

The judging systems for kata and breakdancing were actually both completely changed specifically for the Olympics, so they were both as old as one another.

 

And karate might have had many decades of development but that doesn’t mean the end product was any good as a TV sport, and it also had arguably the most controversial officiating decision of the entire Tokyo Olympics.

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7 minutes ago, NearPup said:

The judging systems for kata and breakdancing were actually both completely changed specifically for the Olympics, so they were both as old as one another.

 

And karate might have had many decades of development but that doesn’t mean the end product was any good as a TV sport, and it also had arguably the most controversial officiating decision of the entire Tokyo Olympics.

Doest it matter ? Should it ?

 

I mean, the vast majority of olympic events are shit TV products anyway that no one watch outside of the Olympics.

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