Tortuga on Nostr: Well- I’d disagree here too moon. The reason we don’t have those olympic sports ...

Well- I’d disagree here too moon. The reason we don’t have those olympic sports you mentioned is because they aren’t a world wide activity, they are culturally “narrow” as a “sport.”

But we do have Olympic gymnastics and skateboarding because those have grown to be cross cultural cross boarder and world wide activities. I’d suggest the same issues you mentioned existed for judging those competitions, but effort was made to identify experienced and talented judges and a cohesive scoring system was implemented, accounting for things like new moves, individualism, as well as objective “difficulties” of certain actions and moves as judged by experienced participants of the community.

The issue boils down not to breaking being unjudgeable or too subjective, but rather to a poor implementation of competitive standards, judging, and outreach for the community. Break dance “battles” are a core element of the art form. There has always been winners and losers. The issue is the Paris games didn’t care about implementing a legitimate competition; with the best performers, they just wanted “woke” cultural and social points to elevate their perceived superiority in supporting “equity”

They’ve made a mockery of the Olympics all together with this bullshit.