Do you feel that they are right when they say this sport is under emphasized in this year's Olympics?

Question

Do you feel that they are right when they say this sport is under emphasized in this year's Olympics?

Answer 1

no

Answer 2

Are you talking about "Texas Hold Em'" as an Olympic sport?

Answer 3

All the martial arts besides boxing is under emphasized. Judo, Tae Kwon Do never get love from the TV stations and newspapers.

Answer 4

Well, first of all you have got to make sure to name the sport you are talking about.

Second, you seem to not have any concept of what "sports" the Olympics have this year:

Here is a list:

    *

          o Diving (8)

          o Swimming (34)

          o Synchronized swimming (2)

          o Water polo (2)

    * Archery (4)

    * Athletics (47)

    * Badminton (5)



    * Baseball (1)

    * Basketball (2)

    * Boxing (11)

    * Cannoeing (16)

    * Cycling (18)

    * Equestrian (6)

    * Fencing (10)

    * Field hockey (2)



    * Football (2)

    * Gymnastics (18)

    * Handball (2)

    * Judo (14)

    * Modern pentathlon (2)

    * Rowing (14)

    * Sailing (11)

    * Shooting (15)



    * Softball (1)

    * Table tennis (4)

    * Taekwondo (8)

    * Tennis (4)

    * Triathlon (2)

    * Volleyball (4)

    * Weightlifting (15)

    * Wrestling (18)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2008_Summer...

Answer 5

coming from a BJJ guy who loves and appreciates judo, and TKD for that matter, im really upset that even with 2000+ hours of coverage there is no judo or TKD being televised...

ive settled with boxing and wrestling, and though they can be exciting....cmon man....show me some judo!!!!

i mean phelps is a great story and a great olympian...but seriously...stop shoving him down my throat!!!!

Answer 6

personally I think only traditional greek events should be in the olympics- if someone can prove to me that the ancient greeks played "badmitton" or "soccer" then fine,

otherwise we stick with traditional events.

curling?

this is david letteman's secret joke on the world- to take the dumbest event possible and make it popular (sort of).

Answer 7

I can see why Judo wasn't include when watching the live stream.  It has become a very low action sport at the olympic level.  Everyone runs out of bounds and there is no ground work.

Answer 8

are you talking about judo, tae kwan do or wrestling?  i would think one of those being this is in the martial arts section.  and yes i never see this on tv even though i would love to.  it seems like they always just show swimming basketball and boxing, the popular ones