Why is Badminton an Olympic sport?

[N64 Cube]

 

[TheGhostOfAbeVigoda]

I have an uncle and cousin who are both insanely into badminton and their love for it is the gayest thing in the fucking world. If you're going to make a sport your whole identity, play an actual sport. Badminton isn't a sport, it's a game. Like croquet or cornhole.

 

[Meownaw]

I remember when they put ballroom dancing in.

 

[Lamont & Tonelli]

cornhole

Until quite recently I had no idea that word also meant a bag-tossing game common at weddings and picnics. If you'd asked me to join you in "a little cornhole", I'd politely decline and probably never return your calls again.

 

[Jims_Maroon_Pants]

Anything that involves an animal should not be an Olympic sport too. How can you accept any award knowing a horse did all the work and you just sat on it.
Rhythm gymnastics and that ribbon dancing is shit too
Track and field fucking rules

 

[FamilyDollar]

My buddy played it in HS when hockey wasn't on. He told me he'd yell and hoot like a white Ontario hockey kid while playing straight off the boat Chinese immigrants. The visual made me loff.

 

[LingerLonger]

Anything that involves an animal should not be an Olympic sport too.

At one of the Olympic Games in the early 1900s, they had pigeon shooting as a competition. And they killed something like 400 birds across the event, either killing them outright with bullets, or wounding them and then needing someone to stomp their heads in with a shovel in front of horrified spectators.

 

[Meownaw]

At one of the Olympic Games in the early 1900s, they had pigeon shooting as a competition. And they killed something like 400 birds across the event, either killing them outright with bullets, or wounding them and then needing someone to stomp their heads in with a shovel in front of horrified spectators.

Sounds hilarious who can I blame for putting a stop to this?

 

[Dog Eater]

Anything that involves an animal should not be an Olympic sport too. How can you accept any award knowing a horse did all the work and you just sat on it.
Rhythm gymnastics and that ribbon dancing is shit too
Track and field fucking rules

Agreed anything that can’t be measured should not be in. Also all the athletes should compete naked.

 

[guest]

Sounds hilarious who can I blame for putting a stop to this?

Women, probably. They're the reason hockey is fucking gay now too

 

[Meownaw]

Women, probably. They're the reason hockey is fucking gay now too

Damn. I was hoping I had a new group to hate.

 

[Turk February]

ironically, it was considered a much better sport than Goodminton