I probably said this during the last summer Olympics...
Badminton is an Olympic sport?
According to the Kansas City Star, "Badminton is the football of China...it's like tennis with ADD."
We aren't going to see it in prime time on the regular network (NBC). It was relegated to CNBC somewhere around the 1am time slot this morning. I enjoy Badminton. I'm good at Badminton. I never considered it a sport that was worthy of Olympic-level competition, however.
I suppose I can appreciate the enthusiasm many have for this sport. Maybe, though, I'm just jealous, because I never made it as a Badminton player...not knowing that there was actually a future in it. Still...Olympic sport...Badminton...really?
Sunday, August 10, 2008
Badminton...really?
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Yes, I thought it very interesting, and well, surprising. To think they no longer have cricket, but do have badmiton. Wait, isn't table tennis an olympic sport too?
To me, the most interesting (silly really) is synchronized swimming. I'm sure it takes talent, but a sport. Why not car racing, people claim that is a sport and the drivers are athletes.
Next we might have ballroom dancing, or even better yet, there are tons of young folks (that come in pacs, groups, gangs, or sometimes "squads"...isn't that cheerleading?) doing syncronized dancing, or dance-like-manuevers. It isn't like line dancing, but it is all over tv. Throw in a couple gymnastic manuevers and you have yourself a competition. Although, I think it is a pre-requisite to have suspenders, a sideways baseball cap or bandana or to at least look like a street hoodlum. Now, how's that for a sport? It sure does get the crowds a hootin' and a hollerin'.
Oh yeah, tug-of-war was actually an olympic sport one time. Wonder if they had a mud pit...oh yeah, mud wrestling, that would be cool. Okay, now I need some visual white-out, thinking of men in speedos didn't do it for me.
Before you know it ultimate fighting, or mixed martial arts, will be on there. It is becoming popular. Now there's a sport where you can die, little higher risk and skill than badminton I'd think. Badminton's still a non-contact sport, isn't it?
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