How can you take wrestling out of the Olympics?
Wrestling is like running: A basic form of human sport that has and will be here for generations to come. Isn't that why the Olympics were started? To see who is "faster, higher, stronger"? Wrestling has and still fits under those categories, particularly stronger. Who is the strongest? Who can flip someone over and pin them to the ground? Parents tell their kids to stop "wrestling" around. No one told them how to wrestle or gave them any rules. They did it by themselves. They just started and its like an innate ability that humans have to settle something or determine who is stronger.
It's basic!
Why do we need to add fancy things to make it more entertaining? The further we get from the basics the less we are rewarding the best and create more of a likelihood of an upset. Adding fancy or entertaining things usually makes things even out the competition and it adds luck to the equation as well.
Is it about ratings? I could only assume that is one of the reasons. I would have thought ratings and popularity would never come into the equation for what makes an Olympic sport, but I guess it does now. The Olympics, I thought, we all about sport and creating champions in the ultimate tests of human ability. However, I guess the Olympics is just like any other business and needs to make money. I don't see another reason why you would take out a sport that has been in the Olympics since its inception in 1896.
Sad moment for all fans of the True Olympics!
No comments:
Post a Comment