Olympics

It was recently brought to my attention by one of Sportsmouth' avid readers, that they had been eagerly awaiting comments on the Olympic Games!

Ask and you shall receive, probably not what you were anticipating though!!

The main reason why Sportsmouth has been quite on the Olympic front is this, most of the sports are a total waste of time and shouldn't even be there, here is a list of sports that should be excluded from the Games!

Badminton - do I really need to give a reason
Baseball - as above, its certainly not what every young baseballer dreams of doing
Basketball - Olympic gold or NBA riches, not a hard decision
BMX - what the f#@k is this doing in the games
Beach Volleyball - great to watch, but Olympics me thinks not
Handball - they'd be better off with the school yard version
Hockey - nope, sorry
Judo - not karate not wrestling, not worthy of Olympic Games
Mountain Biking - BMX for big kiddies - see BMX
Rhythmic Gymnastics - balls, ribbons, hoops, its dancing with stuff
Sailing - Americas Cup anyone, no a 5 foot esky lid sounds better
Soccer - 90,000 quid a week or Olympic gold
Softball - baseball for chicks, you play this for school sport so all the not so sport oriented get to play as well
Synchronised Diving - diving + 1 doesn't make it any better
Synchronsied Swimming - I'm sure I don't need to go any further
Table Tennis - you play this under the house with your mates
Taekwondo - see Judo
Tennis - Wimbeldon fame and glory or the gold medal....
Trampoline - I'm not kidding
Walking - yeah it's part of atheletics but really, how fast can you walk or how slow can you run?!

We could go further, by breaking down some of the swimming events, do they really need to go forwards and backwards over so many distances, the modern pentathlon is also up for debate, if they actually made that event one big race for instance, competitor grabs sword (fencing) has to beat opponent, then runs (run leg) to the lake and swims across (swim leg) jumps on his horse (horse part)and gets to shoot something with his pistol (pistol part) in the shortest time possible then we've got something!!