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How this was in the Olympics and karate isnt is hard to understand.
This is not representative of the rest of the event. The athleticism the real competitors were doing was incredible. It's closer to an improvised, artistic version of a gymnastics floor routine than this bullshit.
This is all I have seen of it. Being a cord cutter since the last Olympics, I'm not sure where to watch any of it.
YouTube, for a start.
Even then it's all been taken off Peacock. It's a shame because they were doing superhuman feats.
Can't wait for freestyle fucking to finally be a thing at the olympics!
Knowing olympics, it'll be yet another sport where it's all men on men / women on women, separated by weight class.
Thank you for the laugh! I so needed that today.
🤣🤣🤣... I'd give you a medal if I had one 🤣🤣🤣
And just like the gymnastics, the viewership would heavily favor the women's events
This person undeservingly getting a spot on stage is not representative of the sport. But surely you wouldn't be commenting on the validity of a sport after seeing only one person do it because then you would be susceptible to being wildly misinformed
I wouldn't. Like many other sports, bboying (which I use because it a dumb AF moniker) is totally subjective for scoring, and as someone who has done a LOT of karate, gymnastics, and ballroom dance, it seems like all of those should have been included first.
It's not totally subjective, because they define a way to measure an athletes performance objectively. It's also a bit ironic because gymnastics could also be quite subjective too. Ultimately the judges and the athletes are aware of how everything is being scored, and the athletes plan their routines around how highly they can score on this rubric.
it seems like all of those should have been included first.
Why?
First because they are older sports. Maybe that is the problem though because karate and ballroom both have 2+ established, competing governing bodies.
Second because at least for sparring, karate is formulaic: put fist or foot here, score point.