6 Insane Sports That Could Be in the Next Olympics

Why not take slap fighting (read: boxing) out of the olympics and allow MMA? Boxing's popularity is dying anyway and Olympic boxing isn't even boxing anymore. It's an arm flailing competition where a judge presses a button on a Playstation controller whenever he THINKS a point may have been scored, with no way of deducting a point for an error by the scorer.

Watch some vidoes from Beijing. Guys were getting points for punches that didn't even come close to landing. All the announcers could talk about was what a joke Olympic boxing had become. Sadly, I'm not exaggerating any of this.

MMA is regulated with the same standards as boxing. And it is getting more popular by the day and it's popularity is worldwide. So why not put it in for 2012?

Lecanne KICKS ASS!

Dressage is for losers...

"I refuse to believe that sitting on top of a dancing horse can be physically taxing."

Try it sometime. And tape it. And put it on Youtube. And Livevideo. And don't you dare disable comments. I'll be sitting here, taking a (non-alcoholic) drink every time you screw up. I'll have water poisoning before you start the half-passes.

Saying dressage is easy is like saying ballet is easy. In other words, TRY IT AGAIN WITH LESS FAIL.

And to tell the truth? I'd rather watch Blue Hors Matinee freestyle dressage performance than stare at a bunch of helicopters try and get ahead of each other without killing anything.

On the other hand, I suppose dressage riders can take this as a compliment: they have achieved a level of subtlety in their aids that will make the average skeptic wonder if it's real sport.

The Wu Shu would be PRETTY FREAKING SWEET, I have to say. But Wu Shu basically means martial arts. You probably need to mention exactly which, out of the many styles of Wu Shu, you want to add. Not all of them have moves that would be considered legal.

While the helicopter racing would be an awesome addition to the olympics, you can't compare it to dressage at all.

I'd challenge the author & the "anti-horse" commentors to spend an hour on a decent dressage horse (or even more fun, an eventer!) and still claim that all the rider does is sit there. You would have muscles aching for weeks that you didn't even know existed.

Real riding is NOTHING like ambling down a trail with both hands on the horn. Not that my ex-racer "ambles" anywhere! :P

By the way, look up the origins of eventing if you don't like the military analogy. Certainly it isn't a perfect comparison, but it isn't that far off.

Canne De Combat kind of reminds me of what Jedi Younglings or whatever must look like when they first practice.

I agree whole heartedly,DAMellen,and I think dueling should make a comeback in society.

Choreographed fighting should be a much bigger part of today's society.

i have ridden a horse at Camp Storer and horse riding is not as easy as it may sound.an ugly kid named jared got the least obedient horse and he fell off it....

i really wish the olympics would have awesome s**t like that.

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Was not trying to downplay the complete badassery or difficult training of any of the special forces. Just trying to think of an analogy that most people would get.

Am a little surprised that there are people who hate horses though. Where'd that come from?

while it must be noted that dressage is by no means an easy thing to accomplish, i'm not so sure that it's fair to the navy SEALS to compare their training (which is a bit more rigorous) to that of dressage. To put this into context, my dad's friend came back to the states while on leave, and while chatting one night my dad asked him what he learned from being a SEAL, and he replied, "....I know seven ways to kill you without you making a sound."

First, I hate horses so much that it is beyond the scope of my imagination that there are this many people on the internet to defend the difficulty of horse dancing. I refuse to believe that sitting on top of a dancing horse can be physically taxing.

If u ask me is just to make them look like assholes

Horseback riding is hard as hell! The horse doesnt do all the work, you try getting on ones back and making them prance around like that. The only reason it looks like its not hard is because the riders practiced, the whole point of dressage is to make it look easy!

Yo Horse Folks, they already said the horses do all the work, what are you complaining about? Sonds like just as much work as flying a helicopter. Spot on analogy cracked!

Sorry to rain on somebodys parade but, yeah, dressage is hard as hell. The only reason it looks like nothing is because of the immense skill of those who do it. Convincing a horse to prance around like a super-nelly equine is definately not easy. Take it from someone who's tried (a lot). This takes YEARS of practice and is a component of the most difficult equestrian competition on the planet- Three Day Eventing. Think Navy Seals training for horses, as an ongoing competition.

Um, Dressage riders do not do "f**k all" you should try to ride sometime. its not easy! if it looks like the rider is doing "f**k all" its because they are doing a good job. it takes years of training so that the aids(leg, seat and hand "cues") are not noticible. just sayin....

I have an idea. For the dueling, we could put rival gangs aginst each other with real ammo. That would help take care of the gang warfare problem in a lot of major urban areas. Then you just arrest the last gang standing for other related crimes, ie; rape, drugs, armed robbery, etc.

Yes, cleats and hostility are never a good combination but sometimes you just gotta take that m**********r out.