unicycling in the olimpics?

I don't know but it should be. There are some pretty ridiculous things
in the olympics. I think all extreme sports should be in the olympics
personally.

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Me on the other half, don't think any extreme-sport should be in the
olympics, because not all sports are about competing against others!

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lleberg said:

*Me on the other half, don't think any extreme-sport should be in the
olympics, because not all sports are about competing against others! *

explain..?

Chase

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I don't actually care about competing myself but it would be fun to
watch the sports I enjoy that I think take much more skill than some of
the olympics sports.

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TylerHeartless said:

*There are some pretty ridiculous things in the olympics. *

Yeah, like ribbon-dancing. That isn't even a sport!

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Or that team shuffle board looking thing on ice! But that is actually
pretty fun to watch hah.😎

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it's called curling![image:
http://www.kiat.net/olympics/slc2002/images/WP-curling.gif]

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Personally, I wouldn't mind seeing all subjectively judged events
-removed- from the Olympics. There are a lot of "sports" that I enjoy
watching that would not be included if this happened, but not every
activity that requires training and/or breaking a sweat needs to be in
the Olympics.

Just my own opinion.

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lleberg said:

*Me on the other half, don't think any extreme-sport should be in the
olympics, because not all sports are about competing against others! *

Or, not all *people* are about competing against others. In other
words, no one is going to make you compete. If somebody else wants to,
why not let them? Competition is a great motivator. It helps individuals
improve their skills and fitness, it helps the sport
(art/recreation/activity) grow and improve, and it drives innovation and
competition among vendors of unicycles and parts.

That said, we haven't gotten much closer to making unicycling
Olympic-eligible in the last few years. A steady string of Unicons is
good, but we need to keep adding countries that have national
organizations. Canada, when are you guys going to get it together? 🙂

Unicycling has never been in the Olympics. But the IUF was created with
that as one of its many goals.

Without the big Olympics, we should all consider Unicon our "own"
Olympics of unicycling. And we have a lot more control over how we do
things there...

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jiheison said:

*Personally, I wouldn't mind seeing all subjectively judged events
-removed- from the Olympics. *

Wow, that would be a lot. No diving. No skating outside of the track.
No gymnastics of any kind.

Curling would stay in, of course. 😄

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yea it really should be. some things on there are like... pole vaulting.
ive always thought the olympics was just code for all the reject sports
that no one likes.

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chosen said:

*yea it really should be. some things on there are like... pole
vaulting. ive always thought the olympics was just code for all the
reject sports that no one likes. *

pole vaulting? pole vaulting is COOL! and hardcore, too. You can't say
nobody likes running. or snowboarding. Or any of the cool sports on
there.

I think it should be limited to simple contests of strength/ability,
though. No kayaking, etc.

somebody's gonna jump on me for this, I know, but I think kayacking,
unicycling, snowboarding, and other sports should have their own
catagory, while running, swimming, jumping, biking, throwing, skiing,
etc. are sports of the style that should be in the olympics. Unicycling,
(extreme, anyway) should be in the XGames. Hour record, distance uniing,
sprints, etc. could be in the olympics though.

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Yeah well if they had unicycling in the olympics they would have to make
it pretty strickt. I mean they could have freestyle which would be
judged just like ice skating or gymnastics, trials, the same. But Muni
would be open for some contraversy, I think if you fall off your out of
the race, because in some parts of a muni cource you could run faster
then you could ride need be, so if your feet touch the ground you should
be out in my opinion. I know you could say well if he stayed within a
five foot radius of where he came off the unicycle, ect, ect. But I
think the rules would have to be simple and to the point, you touch the
ground your out, then just have people posted along the 1/4 mile or
whatever coource, mainly at the difficult areas, and make sure no one
falls off.

In the end though it wouldn't matter because Khris would be there, and
yeah he never falls.

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wowunicycle said:

*Has unicycling ever been in the olimpics? *

No, but they said we could join if we'd spell it correctly.

Honestly, if Ultimate Frisbee got rejected, unicycling is never gonna
make it. Heck, if Downhill MTB isn't in it, we have no chance. At least
DH MTB is entertaining to watch even if you can't do it. Noone cares how
hard it is to do a 4' gap between 4x4" posts and noone will watch it
(not to say that entertainment value is the deciding factor).

The x-games are for all the stupid sellout sports. I see no reason to
unicycle in them.

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wowunicycle said:

*Has unicycling ever been in the olimpics? *

Where have you been check out my thread we have been talking about this
for about a while!!!! 'Thread' (http://tinyurl.com/8lcjk)

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cyberpunk said:

*But Muni would be open for some contraversy, I think if you fall off
your out of the race, because in some parts of a muni cource you could
run faster then you could ride need be, so if your feet touch the
ground you should be out in my opinion. I know you could say well if
he stayed within a five foot radius of where he came off the unicycle,
ect, ect. But I think the rules would have to be simple and to the
point, you touch the ground your out, then just have people posted
along the 1/4 mile or whatever coource, mainly at the difficult areas,
and make sure no one falls off.*

Interesting. In mountain biking events you are allowed to push the
bike. But for the most part, riding a bike is faster than pushing one,
so there is no real potential for abuse. But is it ever faster to ride
a muni than it is to carry one? Perhaps an olympic level athelete going
down a really technical hill?

I found the list of IOC recognized sports to be fairly amusing:
http://tinyurl.com/84yt6. Bridge? Motorcycle racing!? Pelote Basque
sounds like it has some potential to be a real international hit
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If the equivalent in biking isn't in the olympics, I see no reason why
they should even consider unicycling. Not many people outside of
unicyclists see the sport as extreme or even fun to watch, much less the
Olympic higher-ups.

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loosejello said:

*If the equivalent in biking isn't in the olympics, I see no reason
why they should even consider unicycling. Not many people outside of
unicyclists see the sport as extreme or even fun to watch, much less
the Olympic higher-ups. *

I agree with LJ. The trials stuff is sometimes impressive on video, but
most of the very difficult MUni stuff is hard to illustrate on camera.
You ride up a killer hill, technically very difficult, and on film, it
just looks like you rode up a hill.

But then, if synchronized swimming can make it into the olympics...
... do we really even want to be considered?

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Bike Trials never made it in the Xgames and now it seems that motor
cross and the like are taking over, soon we will have moster trucks, not
to knock what the freestyle motor cross guys are doing but personally I
would rather watch a solid STREET skateboarding or bmx, I say street and
not the arena jams that have been in their recently.

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