Alternate and More Awesome Olympic/Paralympic Sports

YLi

Some more awesome Olympic Sports. Can be either sports that never appeared, sports that were discontinued

Martial Arts:

-Muay Thai
-Pankration
-Eskrima (stick and knife, modified Dog Brothers ruleset)
-Sanshou
-Jiujitsu
-Kendo
-Gladiator Fighting
-Longsword Fencing
-Horse archery
-Jousting

Athletic Events:
-Parkour
-Ultra Marathon
-Limbo (hey, if they have high jumping...)

Horse Events:
-Chariot racing

Team Sports:
-Lacrosse
-Trireme Racing
-Wife Carrying
-American Football
-Rugby

Artistic Events:
-Wushu
-Capoeira

Winter:
-Ice climbing
 

fastmongrel

Chariot Racing sounds awesome as does Horse Archery.

Olympics is getting way too bloated in my opinion it needs fewer sports or cut down the size of some sports. Why do some sports like swimming get so much time its always seemed unfair to me that swimmers get the chance to do up to 8 races, do we need all the different swimming distances. Best way to liven up the swimming is to add a shark to the pool.
 

Matt Wiser

Get rid of rythmic gymnastics and synchronized swimming. Bring back Baseball and softball. The IOC has a problem and they can't recognize it: they're too Euro-Centric. They have this feeling that if a sport isn't popular in Europe, it shouldn't be in. Plenty of sportswriters have said the same thing.

Football (the real American kind-not that stuff everyone else says is football) was a demonstration sport at L.A. in '32.
 

A Random Person

Rugby sevens.
Cricket.
Hoop Ball. (from the Mexico City Olympics, winners STILL get sacrificed)
Aussie Rules Footie.
Log Hurling.
Tree Sawing.
Quittich.
 
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