Worst Summer Olympic Event

[El Pablo]

What do you think is the worst Summer Olympic event? I hate everything equestrian. I find it really boring. Not a fan of field hockey or rhythmic gymnastics either. At least synchronized swimming makes me think of a great SNL skit.

 

[DavidMcmillan]

Break dancing?

 

[dennishoddy]

Not watching.

 

[SoonerP226]

Not watching.

Pretty much. I don’t recall what was the final straw, but I got fed up with the corruption of the US and international Olympic committees many moons ago. As a result, I haven’t watched any Olympic events in a decade or more, so I can’t really tell you which one is the worst.

I can say that I’ve recently heard people mentioning various Olympic sports where I thought “holy crap—that’s an Olympic sport?”, though I couldn’t actually tell you what they are at the moment. I was going to try to look them up, then I remembered

 

[thor447]

Synchronized swimming and racewalking

 

[El Pablo]

Synchronized swimming and racewalking

https://www.holdoutsports.com/2016/08/snl-synchronized-swimming-olympics.html?m=1

 

[dlbleak]

i didn’t even know race walking was a thing until a buddy sent me a parody skit the other day. Horses, meh. Breakdancing,meh.
I need a good link to watch the skeet and trap.
Edit- I think I found a link
https://olympics.com/en/paris-2024/schedule/shooting/skeet-men

 

[hunter966]

Race walking is an olympic event? They even added break dancing but yet they removed softball, makes no sense.

 

[T. MIKE SMITH]

I think the worse event is NBC who decided to carry this deal, just crams it out like it's the greatest thing that ever happened to you. Just the man beating the hell at that gal on they showed on the news, was more than enough for me to dismiss the whole deal, but it's gonna take a lot more than me rejecting this crap. The whole world should be. Who in their right mind believes a male boxer who has trained, couldn't beat the crap out of most women even if they are trained to.

 

[sumoj275]

i am astonished by what some “sports” are allowed to be in the Olympic Games.