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healyje
Trad climber
Portland, Oregon
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How unfortunate all the way around.
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jogill
climber
Colorado
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Hmmmm . . . yawn
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JOEY.F
Gym climber
It's not rocket surgery
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Bouldering would be better.
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klk
Trad climber
cali
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as a climber, i have to say, there are few things more boring than watching climbing comps.
maybe golf in any form.
or bowling.
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crunch
Social climber
CO
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Feb 12, 2013 - 01:02pm PT
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One step closer to having climbing in the Olympics:
p://www.nytimes.com/2013/02/13/sports/olympics-may-drop-wrestling-in-2020.html?hp
Wrestling, one of the most ancient and elemental Olympic sports, was removed from the Summer Games in a stunning and widely criticized decision Tuesday by the International Olympic Committee.
In recent years, however, the I.O.C. has expressed concern about the growing size of the Summer Games and has wanted to cap the number of athletes at about 10,500. It has also said it wants to draw younger viewers among the international television audience. Among the sports that wrestling must compete with for future inclusion in the Games are climbing and wakeboarding.
Wakeboarding? Wassat anyways?
Scoring maximum free booze at the funeral of someone else's loved one?
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Reilly
Mountain climber
The Other Monrovia- CA
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Feb 12, 2013 - 01:38pm PT
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The Rooskies tried to get that in 40 years ago. It is still as relevant as softball to a Zambian.
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Al_Smith
climber
San Francisco, CA
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Feb 12, 2013 - 02:01pm PT
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I think I'm going to be sick....IOC to drop wrestling from the Olympic Games in 2020. Sumerian cave drawings found in Mesopotamia indicate that the sport has been around for more than 7,000 years. In the ancient Olympic Games beginning in 708 B.C. wrestling was made into the marquee event in honor of the belief that Zeus had out-wrestled Cronus for possession of the universe. Plato got his name - not from his parents - but his wrestling coach (Platon, meaning, 'broad.') Homer wrote of Odysseus wrestling in the Trojan war. One of the first ever printed books was a wrestling manual by Albrecht Durer in 1512. Henry VIII wrestled King Francis I of France in 1520 (Henry lost, and few would imagine that he was a good sport about it...) This list of wrestling and its place in the history of athletics could go on forever. Instead of wrestling, the IOC is now considering bids for wakeboarding and sport climbing. Now, I love climbing, but are you kidding me? And Wakeboarding? Sports not dropped include shooting, curling, table tennis, and last but not least, the 'sport' of Dressage. Is the IOC serious? Is there anything more important in life than money and ratings? Is there no respect for tradition, actual amateur competition, and pride in the values that physically demanding athletics teach us? Mine as well just drop the Marathon and add skeeball. Ya know, because everyone likes Skeeball..
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climbski2
Mountain climber
Anchorage AK, Reno NV
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Feb 12, 2013 - 02:32pm PT
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Bizzare about wrestling being dropped. Incredibly athletic worldwide sport with perhaps a longer history than any other.
Climbing should be an Olympic sport, not that it's exciting to watch for the most part but it's worldwide , clearly athletic and difficult.
Sport at the core is not about the money or spectating. It is the love dedication skill and competition involved and certainly climbing qualifies on those levels. If a person can make a living at it good for them but entertaining or sales and marketing are the real job titles in that case.
Competition climbing isn't particularly representative of the sport as a whole.. but so what.. Actually no particular discipline of climbing represents the sport as a whole. So many ways to be a climber and it's all good...
cept for bouldering. hehe. Ok just kidding.
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justthemaid
climber
Jim Henson's Basement
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Feb 12, 2013 - 02:48pm PT
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Maid no like.
Meh
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climbski2
Mountain climber
Anchorage AK, Reno NV
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Feb 12, 2013 - 02:58pm PT
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I don't think we get to see the real Olympics in our hyper commercial TV coverage and it makes us jaded leaving a bad taste behind. Maybe the whole thing is just too commercial period.
I do like some things about it that I think are really great. The part of young folks dedicated to something they love. The excitement and honor of being picked to represent their country. Traveling to a special place and being around the other athletes in a gathering meant to showcase hope for peace and great future for the world.
What an amazing experience it must be. The opening and closing ceremonies seem like the kind of celebrations that can help the whole world focus on how great we can all be together.
That sounds a bit cheesy perhaps but there are worse ways to spend a little time every few years.
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John M
climber
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Feb 12, 2013 - 03:05pm PT
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What a sad day that wrestling is out. I lost a lot of interest in the olympics once pros were allowed to compete. I did thoroughly enjoy going to see the olympics in Los Angeles. It was nice to go to a sporting event where everyone was friendly. A big difference from a raiders game. I went once to one of those. I would never go again. Spent the majority of the game protecting my bosses wife from the mayhem in the stands.
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10b4me
Boulder climber
Somewhere on 395
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Feb 12, 2013 - 03:09pm PT
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getting rid of wrestling speaks to the commercialism of the olympics
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Bullwinkle
Boulder climber
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Feb 12, 2013 - 03:20pm PT
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I feel that climbing in the Olympics would be great fun, it would give a voice to a whole generation of young climbers and elevate the Sport. On the other hand watching men in tights wrestling with each other? really?
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RP3
Big Wall climber
El Portal/Chapel Hill
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Feb 12, 2013 - 03:40pm PT
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Huh? Wakeboarding? This isn't the x-games! Perhaps they should also include dirt-biking and snowmobiling...
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Hoser
climber
vancouver
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Feb 12, 2013 - 03:46pm PT
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On the bright side baseball is going...but I agree no wrestling...the same argument could be used for discus, shot put, hammer throw....pretty sure none of those are mainstream
soon it will be dream teams and x games
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steve shea
climber
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Feb 12, 2013 - 04:27pm PT
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"you have got to be kidding me" John McEnroe. Is the Decathlon still in? The best event resulting in the best all around athlete.
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donini
Trad climber
Ouray, Colorado
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Feb 12, 2013 - 05:36pm PT
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Sport climbing has been proven time and time again not to be a good spectator sport.
Nor is
Wrestling.
Wrestling, however, has ancient roots going back to the original olympics. It is also an egalitarian sport practiced in many countries.
How come
Equestrian....yachting....archery....shooting.....badminton, and sychronized swimming still in the Olympics?
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bigwall shitter
Social climber
the wild west
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Feb 12, 2013 - 05:37pm PT
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comp climbing is neither
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mojede
Trad climber
Butte, America
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Feb 12, 2013 - 06:03pm PT
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If they do include wakeboarding, I hope the day of the event that gale winds blow the water into unrecognizable chop...
...any countries competing in it should get their officially sanctioned POWER BOAT ready to ship around the globe.
sad focking day for amateur wrestling--what a shame :-(
edit: I can't wait to buy the USA Olympic climbing holds to bolt onto the rock (sarc)
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