When did hip hop dance become a sport??

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When did hip hop dance become a sport??

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Well according to the 2024 Paris Olympic committee, it is now!! What the actual f*ck???

Does Bog out qualify? Or maybe the classic play ground slap hand??
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Skimming stones should be in there too. I have advocated this since i discovered it at around 5 years old.
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Max B Gold wrote: Fri Aug 09, 2024 4:29 pm Skimming stones should be in there too. I have advocated this since i discoveted it at around 5 years old.
My best is 6 but I think with the correct stone, the right type of lake, and a smooth wrist action I reckon 7-8 is a possibility.
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Frogger wrote: Fri Aug 09, 2024 4:43 pm
Max B Gold wrote: Fri Aug 09, 2024 4:29 pm Skimming stones should be in there too. I have advocated this since i discoveted it at around 5 years old.
My best is 6 but I think with the correct stone, the right type of lake, and a smooth wrist action I reckon 7-8 is a possibility.
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I’ve always done my best to keep my wrists supple.
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If shooting and archery are in there, where is darts and snooker?
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Frogger wrote: Fri Aug 09, 2024 4:43 pm
Max B Gold wrote: Fri Aug 09, 2024 4:29 pm Skimming stones should be in there too. I have advocated this since i discoveted it at around 5 years old.
My best is 6 but I think with the correct stone, the right type of lake, and a smooth wrist action I reckon 7-8 is a possibility.
The World Stone Skimming Championships are held each year on the tiny Scottish island of Easdale. There are old slate mines there and lots of slates on the beach which are the best skimmers. The winning throw is recorded by distance rather than the amount of actual skims. Current record is about 400 feet
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An American is reputed to have made a stone skim 88 times. Was probably Trump I'd guess.
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Frogger wrote: Fri Aug 09, 2024 4:25 pm Well according to the 2024 Paris Olympic committee, it is now!! What the actual f*ck???

Does Bog out qualify? Or maybe the classic play ground slap hand??
Kite surfing now also an Olympic sport !!
Remember back in 1968 there was a television play made by the BBC called "The Year of the Sex Olympics"!!

Frst broadcast on BBC2 as part of Theatre 625. It stars Leonard Rossiter, Tony Vogel, Suzanne Neve and Brian Cox, and was directed by Michael Elliott. The writer was Nigel Kneale, best known as the creator of Quatermass. Influenced by concerns about overpopulation, the counterculture of the 1960s, and the societal effects of television, the play depicts a world of the future where a small elite controls the mass media, keeping the lower classes docile by serving them an endless diet of lowest common denominator programmes and pornography. The play concentrates on an idea the programme controllers have for a new programme that will follow the trials and tribulations of a group of people left to fend for themselves on a remote island. In this respect, the play is often cited as having anticipated the craze for reality television. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Year_ ... x_Olympics
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Sid Bishop wrote: Fri Aug 09, 2024 6:52 pm
Frogger wrote: Fri Aug 09, 2024 4:25 pm Well according to the 2024 Paris Olympic committee, it is now!! What the actual f*ck???

Does Bog out qualify? Or maybe the classic play ground slap hand??
Kite surfing now also an Olympic sport !!
Remember back in 1968 there was a television play made by the BBC called "The Year of the Sex Olympics"!!

Frst broadcast on BBC2 as part of Theatre 625. It stars Leonard Rossiter, Tony Vogel, Suzanne Neve and Brian Cox, and was directed by Michael Elliott. The writer was Nigel Kneale, best known as the creator of Quatermass. Influenced by concerns about overpopulation, the counterculture of the 1960s, and the societal effects of television, the play depicts a world of the future where a small elite controls the mass media, keeping the lower classes docile by serving them an endless diet of lowest common denominator programmes and pornography. The play concentrates on an idea the programme controllers have for a new programme that will follow the trials and tribulations of a group of people left to fend for themselves on a remote island. In this respect, the play is often cited as having anticipated the craze for reality television. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Year_ ... x_Olympics
So you haven't heard of Daniel Defoe then?
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Frogger wrote: Fri Aug 09, 2024 4:25 pm Well according to the 2024 Paris Olympic committee, it is now!! What the actual f*ck???

Does Bog out qualify? Or maybe the classic play ground slap hand??
Absolutely ridiculous, seriously can’t believe it’s in the Olympics
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Max B Gold wrote: Fri Aug 09, 2024 7:36 pm
Sid Bishop wrote: Fri Aug 09, 2024 6:52 pm
Frogger wrote: Fri Aug 09, 2024 4:25 pm Well according to the 2024 Paris Olympic committee, it is now!! What the actual f*ck???

Does Bog out qualify? Or maybe the classic play ground slap hand??
Kite surfing now also an Olympic sport !!
Remember back in 1968 there was a television play made by the BBC called "The Year of the Sex Olympics"!!

Frst broadcast on BBC2 as part of Theatre 625. It stars Leonard Rossiter, Tony Vogel, Suzanne Neve and Brian Cox, and was directed by Michael Elliott. The writer was Nigel Kneale, best known as the creator of Quatermass. Influenced by concerns about overpopulation, the counterculture of the 1960s, and the societal effects of television, the play depicts a world of the future where a small elite controls the mass media, keeping the lower classes docile by serving them an endless diet of lowest common denominator programmes and pornography. The play concentrates on an idea the programme controllers have for a new programme that will follow the trials and tribulations of a group of people left to fend for themselves on a remote island. In this respect, the play is often cited as having anticipated the craze for reality television. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Year_ ... x_Olympics
So you haven't heard of Daniel Fefoe then?
Yes I have and connection ?
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The good news is dancing is not in LA 2028 Olympics
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Sid Bishop wrote: Fri Aug 09, 2024 6:52 pm
Frogger wrote: Fri Aug 09, 2024 4:25 pm Well according to the 2024 Paris Olympic committee, it is now!! What the actual f*ck???

Does Bog out qualify? Or maybe the classic play ground slap hand??
Kite surfing now also an Olympic sport !!
Remember back in 1968 there was a television play made by the BBC called "The Year of the Sex Olympics"!!
I watched the Kite surfing and thoroughly enjoyed it. Very skilful and fast etc.
Was a much better watch than some blokes/women in bucket hats and baggy tracksuit bottoms, with Adidas sambas writhing around like they are having an uncontrolled fit after being knocked over by a car.
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They’ve had toffs on dancing horses for years, so not sure why people are so shocked/angry at these new events.
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The dancing horsey stuff is the worst "sport" and needs to be binned pronto.

I'm up for new things being tried at each Olympics. Sure, there will be plenty of events which don't catch on and get dropped, but every once in a while it will be worth it. I've quite enjoyed some of the BMX stuff, for example. And I much preferred kite surfing to the sailing stuff.
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All the toff ‘sports’ - dancing horses, sailing, fox killing, rowing - need to be removed immediately.
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Am I right in thinking that town planning was once an Olympic sport?
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Nah, rowing can stay. But it needs to be made more accessible to the lower classes.
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CEB2ElectricBoogaloo wrote: Sat Aug 10, 2024 10:02 am Am I right in thinking that town planning was once an Olympic sport?
That is correct.

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Dunners wrote: Sat Aug 10, 2024 10:03 am Nah, rowing can stay. But it needs to be made more accessible to the lower classes.
I meant rowing, not rowing.
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A team of volunteers from Leyton won silver in the 1900 Olympics in the Fire Fighting event.
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They should introduce something like Running Man. I guess they could do it with paintballs or something

Also, Gladiator type fights
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Arm wrestling and Skittles should also be included.

I remain unconvinced by the kiddies bike race thing.
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