Since standards have been tossed out the window and sports, games and hobbies are accepted into the Olympics, I thought I would chat about some of my personal favorites as NON Events.

First and foremost, Beach Volleyball - Bringing sand into an arena to replicate a beach setting, are you kidding me? I guess if this past time can make it, we can expect Frisbee tossing, Boogie Boarding, Roller Blading, Skate Boarding, Dog Ball (or stick) Tossing, Bon Fire building, Sand Castle Contests, Sea Shell collecting and Girl watching in future Olympics.

BMX and Mountain Biking, I just don’t think X Games type stuff needs to be in the Olympics.  Once we open the doors to Extreme Sports the face of the games will change forever.  Cliff diving, Cliff Climbing, Sky Diving, Bungee Jumping,  or even UFC Fighting would then have to be considered eligible.

Trampoline . . . Please, no more . . . ten tricks in a routine and it is judged in some unknown fashion.  As the years go by, I would have thought that events where judges have to make the call would be frowned on based on all the controversy in the past and current games.  If judges are acceptable, then using instant replays to make the proper calls should be mandatory.  The bottom line here is that Trampoline is not versatile enough to keep people interested in watching.  How interesting can you make bouncing up and down on a bouncy surface?

Synchronized Diving, this one again brings me back to the whole judging thing, if this event and to be honest any diving event is to remain in the Olympics, instant replays from all angles would have to be the standard judging method or people will just not remain interested.  Since diving is based a lot on the entry into the water and the splash that occurs (or doesn’t occur), to see a country like China diet their divers to nothing but skin and bone so there can’t be much water displacement even if they did a belly flop was really disappointing.  Based on this action, there will have to be diving in different weight classes in order to keep this a fair competition.

Rythmic Gymnastics, seriously . . . dancing with hula hoops and ribbons and . . . clubs?   Sure the ribbons look kind of phsychadelic, maybe they should just make this the pre-game show and then we wouldn’t have to watch it in competition.

Horse Jumping, since when are horses Olympic Athletes?  Yeah, Yeah, Canada won a medal, big deal.  This is a human Olympics, I don’t see dogs running obstacle coarses, there are no Cockroach Races, Have you seen a Turtle and a Hare racing in these games?  Why would there be horse jumping?  Should we expect horse racing in the future?  Vegas would love that.

Team Sports like Baseball, Basketball and for good measure we can toss in Hockey for the Winter Olympics.   They bring in professional players that make outrageous livings at their games.  The Olympics should be a place for amateurs only.  I want to watch Olympic Hockey where players still play for the love of the game, not for crazy amounts of money.

This brings us to Tennis, Amateurs would be fine, professionals are not called for.  I guess we could expect Tiger Woods to play Golf in the next Olympics.

If I missed something that should have been included, add it into a comment.