If they "Curling" & Snowboarding as Olympic Sports , Then Why Don't they have SURFING as a Olympic Sport ?
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because there are (feelslike) 1000 sports for summer but winter needs stupid stuff to fill in time. I love snowboard but I think its not olympic, Maybe just slalom.  plus its hard to include,more, sports that are judged subjectivly like figure skating.
843954
Curling is a new sport that is coming. I think it is very exciting and  would like to play. I think it is alot differnet then other sports (AND THAT IS WHAT WE ARE DOING NOW IF YOU HAVE PROBLEM WIT IT TO BAD FOR U.) (JK) (JUST KIDDING)
656959
You know something is wrong with this picture.  There is the Olympics and the senior Olympics but no inbetween Olympics.  I think you could actually be onto something here.  I suggest that you get a committee together and begin the process of starting up an "Olympics for Late Blommers". We are  missing our chance here, after all what about all of us late bloomers?
1003640
I am not a swimmer or into gymnastics but i have been a figure skater for 10 years. I am 14 now. Some sports is different timing. But ice skating takes so much time to learn everything to be in the Olympics. Also all of the sports that you have put in your question seem like sports that you have to be young and in shape to be good. So start them young with there sports. But if you want to jump into it right now it may work depending on how much effort you give.
649437
Absolutely.  Haven't you seen the olympics?
95179
I am sure it has to do with certain factors such as overpopulation, lack of lots of money, and the wrong training conditions. For the MOST part it is hard to rig or fix an olympic event, and in the end, the Indians just aren't the best at any one event. Let's face it, surely they don't ski in India too much, and they don't exactly have pools and volleyball beach courts unless you live in one of the nicer areas. It goes on, but I am sure you catch my drift.
169025
no, the winter olympics contain sports that have to do wih the winter, basketball is a summer event.
857588
I dont really understand the point you are trying to make. Football, boxing, basketball, and many other sports are included in the Olympics...and all of them retain "identities of their own". The fact that they make up the Olympics for a mere two weeks every four years has no bad effect at all on them, it only puts them in a huge world-wide spotlight of publicity. and allows people who are unfamiliar with a particular sport to watch and appreciate it.\n\nAnd even if cricket were to be in the Olympics, it would have to be a limited overs tournament beceause it would be physically impossible to schedule so many test matches in only two weeks.\n\n\nAnd besides, cricket was already once an Olympic sport..Paris 1900, Great Britain beat France...check http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cricket_at_the_1900_Summer_Olympics
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"To be included in the programme of the Olympic , an Olympic sport must conform to the following criteria:\n\n1.1 only sports widely practised by men in at least seventy-five countries and on four continents, and by women in at least forty countries and on three continents, may be included in the programme of the Games of the Olympiad
734583
before you ask about curling you should ask about chess. Yes they are both sports... and to be honest if you dont know the rules or you arent playing they turn out to be the most boring sports ever
695778
the Olympics WAS a competition for AMATEURS ; Many countries support and train their athletes  some starting as children sent to boarding schools(training camps).\nEconomically there is no gain as to how many medals a country wins...the ONLY economic gain is the profits gained when a country is selected as the host.
758231
Is curling really a sport?  I thought you had to sweat in the matches to be a sport.
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Winter Olympics -- Skeleton ... I'm just amazed how they can fly down the track head first like that. Childhood sledding to the Nth degree.\n\nSummer Olympics -- Water Polo.\n\nNot that either sport is my favorite sport to watch that is part of the Olympics, but you can watch hockey and even skiiing and figure skating all the time and the same for swimming, basketball, baseball and even track and field. But other than when the Olympics are on can you see either skelton or water polo televised?
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I don't even think figure skating should be a sport.  No offense intended to anyone, especially because I still consider figure skaters athletes, but it isn't a sport!  It's more a competition, like ballroom dancing or something.  You don't see ballroom dancing in the Olympics.
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Most skateboards like to surf because most skaters live along the coastline which means their peer group is into surfing. I would think snowboarding would be easier to learn tho.
1030254
it is. it's a mentally and physically exhausting ordeal. trust me if curling can be considered a sport than hands down motorsports are grueling and are definitely a sport.
532876
You know it's not the sports that are admitted that I have a problem with. It's the players/athletes they allow to compete. The Olympics, I thought were not supposed to be for professional/paid athletes. Bring the sports into the games by all means but I feel the pro Basketballers, Tennis players, Cricketers etc should be replaced by "amateur" athletes. Cricket , the game, would have to be modified though, maybe limited overs, or it would still be being decided after the Olympics were over.....lol