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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Ulfgeir" data-source="post: 9426180" data-attributes="member: 7015719">1. What is the least impressive event to you, in terms of someone saying, "I am an Olympian."Walking, Football, and Golf.  All 3 are events I don't think should be in the olympics for various reasons.Walking = it is basically a contest of "who can whisper the loudest", and has a very unnatural set of movement.Football and Golf = boring to watch and they are both so big in their own ways that the olympics is just a minor tournament for them.  One thing that football has going for it though is that it is in theory a cheap sport that anyone can practice; all you need is a ball and a relatively flat field. But it is also a sport with severely overpaid athlethes, lots of corruption in the decision-making levels, and a sport with lots of injuries (and also lots of faking injuries).2. What is the coolest event that doesn't get all the press (not the 100m, or swimming, or gymnastics)?Kayak slalom & Handball.Handball being such a fast ball-game with lots of goals, and quick changes in play. Kayak Slalom for being quite spectacular.3. Finally, what other thoughts do you have? I mean, other than learning that all the Olympic swimmers pee in the pool?How expensive it is to arrange; so many special arenas that need to be built (and how often  these arenas afterwards often turn into urban ruins as they are no longe used after the olympics). As well as the fickleness that the local olympics comittee has in who to send, and what sports will get the coverage. We have for example had athelthes that has met the olympic qulifications limits, but that our olympic comittee has decided to not send them because they would not be expected to be top 8 (or in some cases having a chance of getting a medal)As a follow-up on the second point, for example in Archery we have the problem in Swedish Archery organization that too much money goes towards the olympic archery (where we are not that good), whereas in for ecxample Field and 3D in Barebow we are top tier, and yet the archers often has to pay very large amounts themselves to compete in world and European championships. We have had cases where some of the best we had turned town their places in the national teams for these competitions due to the costs.</blockquote>

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