If we're going to have the mini-javelin as an Olymic sport should we also add the mini-discus (tiddly-winks) to what they give medals for?
I thought Mini Javelin was Archery... Anyway, if they have Dressage as an Olympic Sport I cant see why Darts can't be.
Would love it. Phil taylor could carry the flag for us at the opening ceremony and be introduced as the greatest british sportsman ever.
They had dressage in the paralympics. Now I may be missing something, but someone with effectively no arms or legs was simply sitting on a well trained horse from what I could see. Surely the horse should get the medal...as long as it too had a disability. The founder of the modern olympics, Pierre deCorbotan(sp?) got a gold medal for literature in the olympics. He wrote a poem and to make it worse, it was **** and didn't rhyme.
A more popular archery? I'm not bothered really, but I don't really understand the "not a sport" argument. The best way of defining a sport seems to be what appears in the "Sports" section of a newspaper, I can't think of too many common features between all 'generally accepted' sports.
Dressage in the paralimpics is mainly for people that have all their limbs but have other disabilities! an the horses are controlled by very slight movements from the riders, whether it be a nudge from either or both of their knees or a tug on the reins. Of course, i assume you knew this but i wouldn't want a very technical and difficult sport to master to be ridiculed without defence! not that i'm a particularly big fan
Don't think they were ever olympic events. Tug'o'war on the other hand... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tug_of_war_at_the_Summer_Olympics
