Here is the list of countries whose national sports are not in the Olympics: Argentina - Pato Chile - Chilean Rodeo Colombia - Tejo Mexico - Charrería Philippines - Arnis Puerto Rico - Paso Fino Uruguay - Destrezas Criollas Afghanistan - Buzkashi Bangladesh - Kabaddi Brazil - Capoeira Cambodia - Bokator Indonesia - Pencak Silat Ireland - Gaelic games Malaysia - Sepak Takraw Peru - Paleta frontón Romania - Oina Russia - Bandy Saudi Arabia - Camel racing, Falconry Tajikistan - Gushtigiri Thailand - Muay Thai Turkey - Cirit, Oil wrestling
To be fair, I'm from Argentina, and I've never watched a game of Pato. It's a very niche sport for very wealthy people and it isn't even televised 99% of the time. The people who made it a national sport were very wealthy people a long time ago without taking into consideration how many people were actually playing it. It was their favourite game, so they decided unilaterally to make it official.
@takemyhand1988 how tf is that the same thing😂, pato is only popular in Argentina, whereas golf is played world wide, so don't compare two sports that are completely different in popularity
@@takemyhand1988 the number of people who play golf dwarf the people who play Pato even in Argentina. There are currently between thirty and thirty four teams of four people each who play officially. Even if we assumed there were three times as many people playing unofficially (and that's a very generous estimate), that only makes less than 600 people playing it, in a country of more than 45 million people. Let's say around a thousand people playing, counting people who play for fun in their enormous private lands with their rich friends. Meanwhile, there are more than three hundred golf clubs and around 110 thousand people who play golf in Argentina. Golf isn't even a very popular game to play over here; it's far more popular in other countries. In numbers alone, golf has more of a claim to olympic inclusion than Pato ever will.
It's just a guy trying to white knight. Most of these examples aren't viable as international sports, because they are barely viable where they are from. Plus USA real strength is track and field, but he didn't attack that category because it doesn't fit the narrative
Winter Olympics will be a failure...I'm sure of that cause I'm Italian,from Turin(remember Turin 2006?).Winter Olympics had to be in my city,but our stupid last mayor make us loose!!!So the next winter Olympics will be in Milan...a great mess,cause Milan doesn't have MOUNTAINS for skiing,also bob or another winter sport will be competed in Turin!!!Here IOC just made a mess...
I mean, the real reason why the us and China always dominate the top spots of the medal tables is because they both are large wealthy countries with lots of people and resources to put into preparing for the games, rather than what events are included. Event accessibility bias I feel is a lot more prominent in the winter games where most countries don’t even have access to half of the terrain required to practice many winter sports, and if they do it’s often incredibly expensive so very much has a certain biased barrier of entry.
Many sports are inaccessible in the summer Olympics too... Like mentioned swimming needs proper infrastructure, same with athletics... Canoeing needs water with no waves, canoe Slalom needs wild rivers with currents. Sailing needs a big body of water, surfing needs good waves, etc. Infrastructure, and weather dependent sports are always going to create an uneven playing field. Winter Olympics is not really that different, swimming and skating are probably equally "inaccessible". Surfing, canoe slalom, sailing, and canoeing is probably similar to alpine skiing. Cross country skiing is similar to cycling. The list goes on.
To be fair, sumo has such deep roots in Japanese culture it used to actively discriminate against foreginers. Also, not many other countries have sumo centers at all (mostly places with a large Japanese minority). So, not much fun for an internarional event
There exist other amazing sports. search highlights of pro kabadi online it's an insane sport from india I love it then many countries got ancient sports if Olympics can't make them competition it should at least make a show of them it would give world a good exposure to diff sports
@@castleanthrax1833 I am sure you love them. But it does'nt change the fact that there are still way too many divisons for swimming compared to other sports 😂😂. Happy new year tho
@@AbiduddinAhmed Swimming is a sport unlike any other. If you could run four different ways the track events would have an equal number of events, as well. It is a function of swimming itself and won't change because some people think others have a perceived advantage.
@@Colby753 That way every sports can be developed to have particular niche. You dont see a ton of variations in combat sports based on the style used. By using your logic every sport should have different sub events. Maybe watch the video again
@@AbiduddinAhmed I didn't use any logic. I stated a fact (swimming is done 4 ways), and a likely possibility (track events would have many more events if running was done 4 ways).
By IOC rules, a sport must be played in several countries in order to be an Olympic sport. This explains why many national sports are not included in the Olympics.
@frankgarcia9045 21 nations played in its World Championships. Its a staple of ASIA GAMES , 2nd most biggest sport event and recognised by IOC and its association. Sports are played by more people and bloody more interesting... than that breakdance...LoL
I think the problem with adding more niche sports from different countries is that they don’t have enough international participants to compete in it. It’s not a bias necessarily, just not enough people to actually play it.
And as a kayaker I love that we have enough slalom kayaker on this planet to have it as a sport in the summer Olympic Games. Of course there’s just one goddess: Jessica Fox, but there are enough others, who are good enough to make things interesting.
Kabaddi is played by 60+ countries but still not included. Because of racism not a single West country play kabaddi all Asians...why the hell basketball is included then?? When westboakys a sport it forces other countries to learn it, but never learn no western sports
@@unitedbeast6614I hope English is your second (or third, fourth, etc) language because I about had a stroke reading your comment. Also don't be so quick to play the racism card, if things were as biased as you say then Football (American) would be included. It could very well be the fact that most people don't know what the hell Kabaddi is.
Obscure to Americans... Despite banning Russia, increasing events Americans are good at, defaming china and exempting Americans to be able to use doping, America still has not been able to get more gold than any other country. So to avoid an other country getting more gold than America when the next Olympics held in America, America should add china in the ban to compete.
I don’t think American athletes would struggle with Kabaddi. I’ve watched a game on ESPN plus and it is not hard to understand. Our athletes are the best. And it is not a particularly technical sport. I’m sure we could medal in it pretty easily.
You can make the same argument that American football and baseball the most popular sports in the us aren’t in the Olympics . The reason many of these sports aren’t in the Olympics is not because of some pro us bias but because they aren’t popular around the world . Most Europeans don’t know how American football is played and most Americans don’t know how cricket is played . I feel like this video has a bias.
American football has steadily become more popular over here in Europe. I, however, see a problem in trying to have a proper football tournament in as little as 2 weeks or however long the olympics last. The example of swimming pools is wild, as most smaller cities have 25 meter pools in Europe and larger cities in Asia (and more affluent parts of SA and Africa), while 50 meter pools can be found in larger cities
There is rugby in the Olympics and baseball is back for the next Olympics as well (This will be the seventh time men's baseball and sixth time women's softball has appeared at the Olympic Games.).
In order to have a sport in the Olympics many countries need to have that sport. It's the sane reason cheerleading isn't there because it's mostly only done in America
@@eezing140funnily enough american football is growing rapidly world wide, its now in a few dozen countries and across every continent except antartica for obvious reasons
I don’t think there’s a bias in not including certain countries’ obscure national sports, but I do think they could be more inclusive of sports that have more international appeal - like cricket. Why is cricket not in the Olympics? Baseball is an example of an American sport that DOES have international appeal but is weirdly absent from the summer Olympics.
Traditional cricket matches are simply too long to be played in any practical way during a two week Olympics. (The traditional cricket match is 5 days long.) Now that shorter versions have been developed, cricket is scheduled to be played at the Los Angeles games in 2028.
Baseball is a sport that has been part of the Olympics. Every summer Olympics from 1992-2008, then was back for the 2020 games, and will be again for 2028
Cricket will be in the next summer Olympics (along with the return of baseball). Apparently cricket was a part of the games in 1900, but only two countries sent teams back then.
@@kaderiley3076yeah I just think it’s weird that they’ve only been including it in years when the host country has a domestic fan base (like when it was brought back for the 2020 Tokyo Olympics). Baseball, by most accounts, is considered one of the top ten most popular global sports, yet the olympics consistently features more obscure sports like fencing and athletics before it. MLB does need to suspend the regular season to allow the best players in the world to participate every four years though.
Pour moi les Australiens sont vraiment surprenants. 4e du classement des médailles avec une population de seulement 26 million de personnes?! Vous êtes vraiment une terre de sportifs. Félicitations.
Exactly, three of Sweden's four gold medals came in swimming and beach woolyball. Sweden where 9 out of 12 months are covered with snow. Instead of national sports, one should ask which sport is the biggest in the country. And for the US, not even the biggest sport is in the Olympics. The whole clip is about hating the West.
There will never be another traditional Japanese martial art represented in the olympics because many of the federations in charge of Japanese Budo “sports” want to protect the way the sports are done from changing the same way judo has changed due to influence from being included in the olympics. For example, the blue judo gi was introduced in the Olympics so that viewers could tell the opponents apart from each other. It’s not traditional. In particular, the kendo federation doesn’t want the sport to evolve the same way traditional fencing has to become sleek and technologically integrated. It takes away from the budo practice. Sumo can only be done in sacred arenas blessed by priests, and women aren’t allowed to step foot in those arenas. It was controversial when a sumo wrestler collapsed and a female doctor rushed to help him and was reprimanded for setting foot in the arena. Most of the sports represented in the Olympics might be American or Eurocentric, but some of the other national sports found around the world may have a large group of people who don’t want to see that event or practice change into some regulated sporting event just for spectacle. Some of them are sacred, and some aren’t done to determine winners or losers.
Oh good!! I was worried Kyudo and Aikido might be added to the world championships/olympic games, and be completely ruined, but you're telling me they're safe. I can relax then!
The fact that a woman doctor is criticized for rendering medical care shows that perhaps that sport should change a little. Way to keep the misogyny alive.
Well said. Many of these “sports” don’t have quantifiable metrics to judge by either. Hence why breakdancing should never have made it to the Olympics. It’s an art form not a sport.
@user-ip8bd7hd2n Table tennis and Badminton are great sports. 👍 Table tennis, very international, very fast. Badminton, very international, very fast and taxing. Superb sports.
When you consider that a lot of these sports that we view as "American" are also played internationally, it makes sense to include them. On the other hand, a lot of these sports that aren't included are only really played in their respective home countries.
@@Orneyrocks1609Cricket will be olympic in 2028, the 2nd time after 1900. And it's also not really a global sport, it's only really played in Britain and some former British colonies (although this includes very big countries like India or Pakistan). Also the majority of sports in the Summer Olympics is almost eclusively played in Europe and North America. I think in general the bias of the olympics is western, not just American.
@@Orneyrocks1609 You guys are looking at it incorrectly, the sports that are most natural to humans should have many medals, such as weight lifting, running, and swimming. Sports that have high levels of abstractions and rules should only be included if they are popular in many countries.
@@bobbabb That's an ad hoc explanation. Let's say we do assume that to be true, then why does swimming have more medals than track and field? Haven't humans have been running and jumping since long before we learnt to swim?
Kabaddi would be an amazing Olympic event. It's played fairly widely, and is a low infrastructure sport that would allow competition from poorer countries. It's also great fun to watch.
@@joshuafrimpong244 It's a sport popular in South Asia that feels like a school-yard development. A player from one team needs to invade the other team's region, touch one of the opposing team, and escape back to their own side. The opposing team draws the player deep into their zone and can tackle them once touched. In the original rules, the invader needed to repeat the word "Kabbadi" over and over without taking a breath, otherwise they were out. Modern Kabbadi usually has a fixed time to invade, and there are a several variations. It looks a bit like rugby 7's played without a ball. tldr: Google it.
@@gwo-burneloh9493 Once you accept that South Asia contains about 1/4 of the earth's population, "It's only done in Bangladesh, India, and Pakistan" becomes much less exclusionary. And world kabbadi has spread beyond the sub-continent. The New Zealand Women's team has placed very well, for example.
I always thought the host country got to introduce a sport into the Olympics, it makes sense if these places never host they don’t have the national sports in the Olympics
The way a sport gets into the Olympics is it has to be widely practiced in at least 75 countries by men and at least 40 countries by women. It’s unfortunate that some countries national sports aren’t in the Olympics, but there are rules in place about the whole thing. Host cities also choose 5 sports to add when they host, they have to qualify but still. It’s not rigged for the US or anything, the US just has one of the largest talent pools to pull from, having a large population with facilities for most of it
>"For swiming you need these large facilities in urban centers" >"Why isn't this obscure sport included that requires horses for every player and a massive field" Geez, one of these sports seems way less accessible and it isn't the one that requires a pool full lf water
@@roketynoramallorca2882there are middle schools with pools in America. If you're country is so poor they can't afford swimming pools the Olympics shouldn't be on their mind
Something else to think about is how so many sports in the Olympics actually need to be expanded on. There are many types of gymnastics and archery that could easily be added and would be well accepted around the world
@@larsmoney1013 I think the majority of my country South Africa's top athletes train in America. Even French swimmer Leon Marchand(he won 4 golds) trains in Arizona. It's not like it's a secret.
He never said that only Americans play it. Basketball and beach volleyball are both sports that originated from the US - basketball in Springfield College and beach volleyball in Hawaii (volleyball itself in Massachusetts). That was why he called them American sports.
Wdc wanted Ballroom dancing but settled on break dancing to attract the younger people. The media propped up RayGun to get views. The others were good.
It is, and it's called breaking, not "breakdancing". This was the first year it's been featured. It's not happening at the next one in LA (which was decided on about a year ago), but it could still be the one after that in Brisbane.
@@420sakura1none of what you claimed is accurate. WDC has been trying to get ballroom in the Olympics for decades, about four or so years ago they decided to support breaking to become an Olympic sport (presumably with the hope that this could open consideration for ballrofor ballroomsidered). Attracting a younger audience was not the primary goal, and it was definitely chosen by the host country of France for this year's Paris Olympics due to the popularity and strength of the breaking culture there. Raygun achieved her position fairly within the official parameters of the Olympic breaking qualifiers. Although rereading your comment now, I understand that you may have been suggesting with your second-to-last sentence that the media has disproportionately focused on her, and not that you were suggesting she was some kind of media plant. Finally, all the Olympic competitors in breaking were good, including Raygun (who is a good dancer, but evidently and regrettably was not on her A game in the moment), just some were significantly better than others.
@blakesby she was and is a horible person that can not dance and there is a lot of foul play . She deserves to have all of her actions questioned and needs to be investigated for fraud.
Don't forget how much resources and facilities the top 10 countries have, and don't get me started on how they have SO MANY more players than most of the other countries.
that’s kinda the whole point? the Olympics are proving the athletic prowess of a country, you don’t get athletic prowess from not investing a boat load of time and money.
Yeah but if your country is dirt poor or is extremely unstable it's not like the Olympics can bankroll tens of new training centers, coaches, and athletic scholarships for every country that needs it. A good example is actually Bangladesh. The majority of their population is in poverty, and the country has a history of revolutions and unstable governments. Meaning there isn't lots of money or athletes to be found.
Also the guy in the video cherry picked his data, the reason all those countries national sports aren't in the Olympics is cause they are the only ones who play them. Even the US's football and baseball arnt even in the Olympics unless the country that is hosting them plays it. Its simply a matter of popularity.
Besides that, saying that Avery Brundage is bad because he added swimming events isn't even scratching the surface of why he was bad. Check out the Behind the Bastards episodes on him for more.
@@einstein_god there's like a dozen of muay thai gyms in my city, in brazil. Muay thai is very well known by now and is practiced by several countries I think it could qualify as an olympic sport, but I also think it's not going to happen Honestly, that's a good thing
I think there are two main factors: global interest AND the ability to hold a tournament within the 16 days of the Olympic schedule. Rugby (proper rugby, not sevens) for instance has mass appeal, but the game is much too arduous to have a tournament in as little as 16 days (or even 18 days as is the case with football). Cricket has even wider appeal - roughly 400 million people tune in for any game between Pakistan and India. But until the advent of the short format T20 cricket, it was simply not practicable to hold a proper tournament for it.
@@grays617 That is an argument for there being too many games in the Olympics, not for the inclusion of cricket. Curling? Ridiculous (although there are are 70 worldwide members). Besides, cricket matches are HOURS long.
@Tru982Cricket is being added to the 2028 Olympics hosted in LA. Hopefully, it'll be taken seriously and not follow in the footsteps of football and baseball where the best sportspeople don't show up. Also, I don't think it's fair to blame the west and America for cricket's delayed inclusion. Many host countries simply didn't have cricket infrastructure and many cricket boards were opposed to joining the Olympics such as the BCCI.
Yeah I mean, here in Brazil we have all conditions to be a superpower at swimming but we’re not. It’s definetly not only about conditions you have in your country…
you learned something new today. good for you. only the western societies have the ability for this infrastructure. (I don't include china, because they have a different system)
On the other side ... The Olympics also have many global sports that aren't popular in the U.S. and that they struggle to get any medal or sometimes even qualify , like Handball, Table Tennis, Badminton, Rhythm Gymnastics, Field Hockey, Rugby, Race walk ....
How many medals are in each of these types of sports? And who added them in the Olympic in the first place? What region were good at them when they were added to the list?
The US medaled in women's rugby. The issue with field hockey is everyone else considers it a male sport but it's only a female sport in the USA so there's no development. We'd likely do very well in women's field hockey.
As someone from Bangladesh, nobody really cares about kabbadi here honestly, you'd find more pro kabbadi players in some indian district probably. Cricket and football is way more popular over here
It would be silly to have obscure national games at the Olympics, but yes, there are waaaaay too many swimming medals, and it's not like if you train for one you can't compete for the others
I don't think so i know they can't make competition but friendly fights or showcasing them on such a big events can be good for the sports. Try searching pro kabadi highlights on youtube it's an insane sport from india which nobody knows but my god is it good would recommend 💯
Australia's national sport is AFL (footy). The problem is, a lot of national sports aren't played anywhere else (well except nauru). But an event with 2 teams world wide doesn't make sense for an Olympic games. The same reason for many nation sports being missed
mate im sorry but its cricket because the tossas in NSW and Queensland like rugby so afl only has half the country whilst the whole country plays cricket. -also soccer is the most popular sport amongst kids so ...
@@ExampleName-j2n In terms of numbers playing at a grass roots and numbers in seats at a professional level AFL is still on top. Most people really only care about test cricket and even then it's pretty rare and only one of AFL and rugby has made any progress crossing the Berassi line so I think it's safe to say Australia's sport is Australia's sport
I think when he says national sport he means the recognised national sport. Australia doesn't technically have a national sport, although if there was to be one, cricket would have a huge advantage in being the lowest common denominator sport. However, soccer is growing quite rapidly and may take over cricket.
Netball is also trying to included in the Olympics! It was rejected for this year because there isn't enough participation in some continents, especially Asia. It's a huge commonwealth game, dominated by England, Australia and New Zealand, but slowly picking up around the world!
Forgot about Netball. Yet another more commonwealthy sport alongside Rugby (sevens don’t count we need a proper mixed code), Cricket, Snooker, Darts and Mixed Football (AFL / Gaelic Football) that are missing
@@DynMorgannwg I do think that another main consideration for inclusion of these sports is the facility! I'd imagine a lot of countries wouldn't be able to accommodate some sports due to the lack of facilities to host as many teams and games. The number of stadiums required to host 3 field sports concurrently 😅
@@tilroxnetball facilities arent that far from basketball all you need is a gym, netballs, bibs and the hoop its got a relatively cheap start price facility wise
Avery brundage was also a track and feild athelete himself, and thats why all of those small separate sports are in it, but not multiple competitions from other sports. Most other sports will have limited sections.
I have to hard disagree with the message here. Whether it's Jamaica in the short sprints, Kenya in the long runs, Taekwondo, Javelin, Long jump, countries have a fair opportunity to win. It's down to their respective governments to create the appropriate facilites and relevant tournaments to decide and for their athletes to train. You can say America has an unfair advantage but that is due to funding, events, population and having many of these facilities countrywide. Not down to who runs the IOC. If India were interested in winning more than America, they have the means to compete. It's a worldwide event and the fun isn't in getting the most medals but rather watching the best of the best compete and be in awe at their skill (Bonus if your country wins an event).
Totally agree. I would like to add a point here, let's take swimming as an example. If USA Aus are winning many medals in that event, it's not by just participating right. They have to qualify then heats semis and then top 3 in the finals. So their atheletes are good enough to qualify in in multiple events. So who is stopping you to do that. It's simple if you don't get medals then complain about an unfair due. What non sense. If china level up its swimming post 2008 then it means then why not india. After all you got almost same population and call yourself a future superpower. India has more youths than any other countries then where is the problem? Problem is not that IOC is favouring anyone. Basically you got identify in which multi displine event you have more chances. For example track and field so many games are there. Can't you produce a pole vault, triple jump, long jump, high jump, throws etc infra. Would it cost your fortune? Not at all. Need to understand blame game is not part of an Olympic event as such where you have medal chances so start playing instead
@@_magnifyit's not required. But don't expect your athletes would have a comfortable training. All your yapping is more of a jealousy that someone bested you.
@@_magnifyYou know, there is an alternative to pools to practice swimming in, it’s a large body of water called the ✨Ocean✨ and usually the countries that do well in swimming also happen to be near them. Like how Australia does well in swimming, because most of their population lives on the coastal areas. Crazy huh? Kinda like the misinformation in the video that you haven’t acknowledged yet. Like how you said the only American IOC president was the longest serving, even though he wasn’t. Avery Brundage served for 20 years, which is 9 years shorter than Baron Pierre de Coubertin who served for 29 years as the IOC president. (He was French) You should have also noted that beach volleyball was introduced to the Olympics in 1996, well after Brundage had served as president. Seems like you don’t do your research that well, do you?
This is misleading. There are many traditional sports in the US that are not Olympic sports. For example, professional cheer is a national sport, but the Olympic committee denied it becoming an Olympic sport since not enough people around the world played it. I think the reason you see a lot of sports in the Olympics that may have originated or been popularized in the USA, is more because of American influence than it is bias of the IOC. In fact, the IOC and the American Olympic committee haven't been getting along recently when it comes to the Chinese doping scandal and the stripping of an Olympic bronze.
You're right other countries don't have traditional sports only USA has them. Do you know there are 7 continent, and there are people loving outside usa. Now you know. 🎉🎉
its clear why cheer isnt an olympic sport i used to do it and im from england its not very widespread or popular but things like muay thai, netball, competitive dance and cricket are
I mean… but if there is a national sport that no other country plays…. What’s the point of including it in the Olympics. Fair competition should be the goal, not monopoly…
Yeah, that's why there is quotas for allowing a sport at the Olympics. It need to be practiced in multiple continents, in a certain number of countries, and having a certain number of person who practices in the sportive federation. So yeah, you won't add national sport when they are only know in their country, that would be really unfair
And it's also extremely unhealthy to be a sumo wrestler, they have an average lifespan of like 40 or something Definitely not something the Olympics wants to promote
I don’t disagree with the swimming thing but basketball is an international sport, it’s not in the Olympics just because the president is American and it’s an “American sport”
It's cuz of them playing it for so long and the US dominating culturally that it's so popular. Other sports given the same lime light would do the same if not better.
History and Rules are always written by the strong. There will come a time, when more games from Asia will dominate and Asian countries will dominate the top spots in the Olympics.
I want to see more sword fighting than just Olympic fencing in the olympics. As cool as Olympic fencing is different sword types change so much how someone would fight. I would love it if there was at least a saber, longsword and rapier category or even a mixed sword fighting event.
This guy just ignores the fact that there are conditions for a sport to be eligible for the Olympics. Heaps of these national sports are not played anywhere else, hence, they don’t have enough countries to be considered for the Olympics
I was just gonna say when people bitch about Americans caring more about the Super Bowl or Stanley Cup than the FIFA World Cup, but then we still take gold in a piss load of other sports that people around the world meddling participate in, but then send representatives from their country as well for everyone to compete.
The added swimming events weren’t just new events created to help Americans win. They were all pre existing swimming events they added to expand upon the event. You also conventionally left out all the non American events that have been added over the last 24+ years or so. Like badminton, rhythmic gymnastics, added events for diving. The Olympic Games are not skewed towards American medals. And the longest IOC president was actually a Frenchman who served almost 10 years and 3 Olympics longer than the American president.
American football isn’t in the Olympics. It’s a HUGE sport here. It’s not in the Olympics because no other country plays the game as seriously as we do. That’s what those other sports aren’t in the Olympics. Edit: Why tf is everyone tripping?? I was contradicting what the guy in the video was saying. His point makes no sense. The biggest sport in the US is not in the Olympics but somehow the Olympic committee is biased to the US??
It's called Rugby.. Nothing is like American football, Spanish football,German Football,Indian Football...Yours is Rugby and Football which is watched by billions.
Going to push back on this. My grandfather was Australian and was a competitive swimmer. His training wasn’t done in a pool at all, but in a nearby river. Expand your mind, sir.
Most countries have plenty of large pools even in big cities and dense urban areas. If developed countries can’t build a large recreational center or some type of public or community building with access to amenities to practice sports, that’s their fault.
I was about to say, there are always countries that share the competitiveness in a sport. Australia is a prime example for good competition in swimming. Jamaica in running athletics is another. It is just rare that America competes well in multiple events instead of only one. Just like China competes well in a different set of events that have many classes (badminton, competitive diving, table tennis, badminton, weight lifting)
@@jkrowdy I don’t understand why you say “it is rare that America competes well in multiple events instead of only one”. As far as I know, no country even approaches the Americans in terms of gold medals. Could you explain what you meant with an example?
@@austin3853it's a very "I hate America" coded video. Beach volleyball isn't a national pastime here. Most of the country is inland. Might as well say surfing is an American sport. Sure, it originated in HI but it's worldwide now. Same as basketball and baseball(which is coming back). Sumo has never been and will never be world wide as the Japanese don't want outsider doing it. He's also acting like tropical nations can't possibly swim as they don't have space for pools, that Aus just can't win because they don't have room for a pool, that China doesn't absolutely dominate in diving. There are a lot of incorrect or misleading statements in this video. Probably low on clicks and wants to boost his page with baited comments.
He hasn’t done his research. Each Olympic host is allowed to pick which sports they want to include. That’s why Japan had baseball, France had breakdancing and the US will have flag football.
You missed one. The United States national sport isn't in the Olympics because we don't have one. American Football is our most popular sport and has never appeared.
The US has the best formation of training and tournaments in Wrestling, Basketball and football than any country...right from high school to college/University..
@chuck_duck the ancient Greeks didn't identify themselves as european though. They viewed most Europeans as barbarians, and had closer relations with middle-eastern peoples than say for example northern europeans. Greeks didn't start viewing themselves as Europeans until after they lost claims to lands in Anatolia during the early 20th century.
@@BubbleyiesRiley Tell me a solution okay. We have been doing this for a century and guess what that means we put in the sports and we have been practicing. What is the soloution population based athlete guess what favors America and china. Give me a soloution.
@@stalkingcatstudios3698 The Olympics let multiple sports in. Is cricket there? As far as I know a lot of South Asian countries play cricket. If we let other countries in we let other countries decide too. We should have kept it just American and European but we didn't. Every country needs its own president at games like these. One president for what? Its rigged. A league of people deciding what sports should be in. Not one whole man deciding for all the 100+ countries. Solution is that or get rid of what makes the Olympics Olympics. Even Nazi Germany had Japan and African countries during the 1930s games. We made it. But everyone brought it forward. Every country in it. Not just the Euros and the Mericans. Who cares about the Greeks they don't even call themselves Europeans. Hell us Americans never started the Olympics the Greeks did. Either that solution or we just get rid of everyone let the Greeks play.
Cricket, Baseball and Rugby (likely a mixed code) have all been missing for ages. It took until 2016 for one of the biggest sports in the world (rugby) to be included but even then it was only sevens (which is very different to full). Meanwhile all the Track, Field and Pool sports you can think of are in there. Darts and Snooker are also widely played sports that have a noticeable absence
Baseball has been in the Olympics a lot. It used to be one of the stable sports of the Olympics. It has been out recently, but will be back in for 2028.
@@annasolovyeva1013 So? Everybody still knows those sports, and that’s just not even true though. Baseball is played in the entire western hemisphere and Asia, even European countries and Australia managed to get a decent team together and make the world baseball classic tournament last year. Rugby too, most countries still have rugby teams and it’s not that unpopular at all, all you need is a ball and some space to run after all. Cricket is interesting because it’s mostly only popular in a handful of commonwealth countries, yes, but those countries still have very large populations. The truth is adding those sports to the Olympics is much more complicated than meets the eye, which is why they’ve bounced in and out. I could speak to baseball as a fan, there are so many reasons why baseball isn’t in the Olympics and why so many baseball fans themselves don’t want it to be.
I feel this video is kind of disingenuous... kind of lying by omission. There's more to it, because the real reason a lot of sports aren't in it is representation. If no one outside one/a few countries plays the sport, it can't be internationally represented and there would not be enough competitors. You're totally glossing over how a major national American sport, American football, also isn't the Olympics, for that very reason. Very few other countries play it. No one outside Japan does sumo. But also cricket, one of the most popular sports in the world, also isn't in because while millions, billions even, enjoy it, only a few countries play it.
A Cricket game is just too long for the Olympic Games. You need to play a certain number of matches to get the winner and you can’t do that in the two weeks of the Olympic Games when one game is actually several days long.
And yet, cricket will be in LA... in other words, this will probably be the 41st gold medal of the US. Same for other sports that almost no one plays at, appart from American and à few countries. Will there even be enough teams to compete in these sports?
@@Alexielios haven‘t you learned, that England makes the rules for cricket and therefore wins? And there will definitely be enough teams for cricket, pretty much every country in the commonwealth has a team.
Sumo is very much done outside of Japan. Jerk one of the most popular sumo in the past decade was from the country of Georgia. Using off the cuff remarks that are wrong to sound smart, just makes you look like a bigger idiot. There's literally no excuse for ignorance like this when you are using the world's largest knowledge repository to post blatantly lazy ignorance.
@@_magnifyit’s not though, I learned to swim in a reservoir, and all my skills transferred to a swimming pool. Also if you have enough money to spend all year training for the Olympics, you have enough money to train in the US or afford to live somewhere with a pool
There’s a lot of info in this video that’s pretty far off. You really have to think about this a bit more. The United States does not have this unfair advantage that you think it does. Adding things like sumo wrestling or the national sport of Argentina wouldn’t make much sense. It would actually give these countries an unfair advantage that the US does not have. These countries would easily dominate these events, as most of the rest of the world has never heard of or participated in many of these sports. These events like swimming are actually not that bad of matchups either, and they are overall close. The United States does not have a national sport, and it still dominates the Olympics. Actually, it dominates other countries at their own national sports. Adding the national sports of other countries that are only participated in within those countries would be unfair in general. Not to mention, very few would watch or want to participate in these events. There would be no competition outside of the main country the sport is from. Like Japan would dominate sumo wrestling by far. Finally, the most important part, the Olympics is about making money. Adding these events would be more money than it’s worth for what would be obtained from adding them. Adding events like more swimming is very easy to do because they already have the facilities to do. They do not, however, have the facilities to add some of the things you suggested. Therefore it just wouldn’t be worth doing.
@@_magnifyalthough with those two, as with everything olympic, it really is about money. And not just the government supporting athletes, but simply being affluent enough to be able to pay for horse riding or skiing lessons. Without a affluent middle class that has the money to enable children to pursue these sports, the chances of winning a medal are slim. The horse was tamed in central asia after all, and there are plenty of mountain ranges with snow all over the world. Still you don’t see countries bordering the Andes or Himalayas win in the alpine events.
Yeah, the fact is it comes down to money. The Olympics are a product for entertainment after all, it's not a charity for ethnic exploration. I doubt an obscure sport played by maybe two handfuls of people in a single country is going to have the pull to be featured as an Olympic sport. Not to mention sports that require animals, are we testing human athletes or the ability of their animals now?
besides, if the us really cares about obscure sports like sumo, they could probably dominate that too within two decades and no one wants tk take away from Japanese culture
I mean.... Basketball has a bunch of games over a few weeks but generates 1 (maybe a 2nd) medal, whereas China won 8 of their gold in diving, 5 from shooting, table tennis, and weight lifting.... That's over half of their golds
I think the only complaint here is the US has money. Germany, China, Russia, England. They can all have these massive facilities as well, so not just a US thing. Also, winter Olympics involve a shooting event. No one complains about it because we never win. Despite having more guns than people as every other country will point out any other moment.
England does not have the same amount of money as USA lol.Not even close and they put most their money into soccer which they don’t even compete in the Olympics anymore
@uzaidgurjee4798 Still though, we never win olympic shooting events. And England not having money is an England problem. They have the economy to support major industry. My point was is the US is not a problem by their own. People just like to point fingers like they are.
China got 8 gold medals from diving events, which requires FAR more expensive, complex and large facilities compared to regular swimming centers with an Olympic swimming pool that can be found in much more places. China also got 5/5 possible gold medals in table tennis which has been completely dominated by China since forever and is essentially free gold medals for China and where everyone else is playing for silver (except a few odd years once every decade or so where S.Korea, Japan, Germany or Sweden has gotten maybe 1 of the available golds). The US does not have a sport where they are so dominant that they get all the possible gold medals, it’s kind of like having 5 different American football events at the Olympics. I agree that swimming, diving and some athletics events in running have way to many medals and distances - but it’s not really a conspiracy. Mostly because Swimming, diving and athletics are popular globally and sports most people can take up.
@@_magnifyChina took 8/8 golds in diving. The US took 8/29 golds in swimming. It’s not really comparable due to the US not being one sided dominant in swimming and because swimming is among the most popular sports in the entire world and much easier for people to become pro in, much more so than diving.
Unusually bad year for US swimming, at the previous two Olympics we got 16/29, which is a significant advantage in the medal count. I also disagree that swimming is an accessible sport, Olympic lap pools are inherently multimillion dollar facilities.
@@_magnify It’s true that Olympic 50 meter swimming pools are expensive, but most people start training in much more accessible 25 meter swimming pools at local swimming pools and gym facilities which are extremely common - and such swimming facilities are basically a staple in every European, post soviet, East Asian, Australian and somewhat wealthier South American/African small towns etc - with large 50 meter facilities in every big to mid size city in those middle to high income countries. Swimming knowledge and swimming as a form of exercise is a public good that most countries and governments are promoting for the general public, so swimming facilities isn’t useless vanity projects aimed at promoting Olympic medals and elite athletes - they serve the community and is a place for exercise and leisure in many places and used by lots of regular people everyday. Not just rich people in rich countries and they are easy to find in every town and city in some shape - usually with local swimming clubs. So it’s not in any way designed to or only benefitting American Olympics performances due to advantages, and it’s not anywhere close to as one sided as diving and table tennis for China where they essentially take 13/13 or 12/13 gold medals every single year for these 2 Chinese dominated sports combined. China seems to have loads of top notch Olympic swimming and diving centers due to their Olympic success in diving and increasingly good swimming performances every single Olympics, so I suggest China to start investing more in swimming in order to cash in on those medals and dethrone America in 2028 at home soil.
@@Fluxwuxyea, its pretty funny to complain about needing a 25 meter swimming pool thats in basically most towns and the counter-example is a sport that requires each player to have a horse...
@@_magnifyUS only won 8 gold from swimming out of 29 and dude is still complaining 🤣We won medal in ⚽ rugby basketball volleyball cycling fencing and many
@@_magnifyDo you genuinely not see a difference between table tennis and swimming? Table tennis is a game with rules. Swimming is just a mode of movement. Its no different from track. Hence why you can have multiple swimming events, same as you have multiple track events.
American hating propaganda 😂 nothing special as usual and this statement comin from non American, I don't know why many American hate their own country! while many of foreigners wanna be American citizens please for those who hate America as American, get out from that country so you can make space for those who seek opportunities in your country
@@alclay8689Also kind of forgets about the Soviet advantage during the Cold war, not to mention that having one medal in Pato or sumo won't change the medal count much. Why not ban all the categories in boxing or wrestling or gymnastics then to deny Uzbekistan (which won pretty much all its medals in one sport) and Bulgaria their advantage.😂 Also swimming medals are won by a lot of countries. Ergo, the USA did not win 40 golds on paper, it did win 40 medals.😂
I dont begrudge having lots of events for swimming because if you are going to include it at all you gotta make use of that pool, alot of them are built specifically for the games. Building a whole Olympic standard swimming pool for a couple of events is just wasteful 😂
also hes wrong im an aussie and we added all the backstroke events when we held the games- more of an unfair advantage as we are no offence the GOAT of swimming-look at population vs swimming gold medal winners
Thank you for mentioning Bangladesh. As almost no one mentions it in any sport kinda event (except cricket). Hadodo us really fun to watch. There are others sports too. (I am sorry if I couldnt explain it properly)
Here is the list of countries whose national sports are not in the Olympics:
Argentina - Pato
Chile - Chilean Rodeo
Colombia - Tejo
Mexico - Charrería
Philippines - Arnis
Puerto Rico - Paso Fino
Uruguay - Destrezas Criollas
Afghanistan - Buzkashi
Bangladesh - Kabaddi
Brazil - Capoeira
Cambodia - Bokator
Indonesia - Pencak Silat
Ireland - Gaelic games
Malaysia - Sepak Takraw
Peru - Paleta frontón
Romania - Oina
Russia - Bandy
Saudi Arabia - Camel racing, Falconry
Tajikistan - Gushtigiri
Thailand - Muay Thai
Turkey - Cirit, Oil wrestling
Ireland - Gaelic
Nobody plays Oina in Romania!😅
Canada - Lacrosse
But it'll be at 2028.
Pencak Silat in the Olympics would go crazyy, the entirety of Maritime Southeast Asia would be watching 👀
The Irish ones are Gaelic football, hurling and camogie for anyone wondering!
To be fair, I'm from Argentina, and I've never watched a game of Pato. It's a very niche sport for very wealthy people and it isn't even televised 99% of the time. The people who made it a national sport were very wealthy people a long time ago without taking into consideration how many people were actually playing it. It was their favourite game, so they decided unilaterally to make it official.
@takemyhand1988 how tf is that the same thing😂, pato is only popular in Argentina, whereas golf is played world wide, so don't compare two sports that are completely different in popularity
Still popular worldwide
@@takemyhand1988 the number of people who play golf dwarf the people who play Pato even in Argentina. There are currently between thirty and thirty four teams of four people each who play officially. Even if we assumed there were three times as many people playing unofficially (and that's a very generous estimate), that only makes less than 600 people playing it, in a country of more than 45 million people. Let's say around a thousand people playing, counting people who play for fun in their enormous private lands with their rich friends. Meanwhile, there are more than three hundred golf clubs and around 110 thousand people who play golf in Argentina. Golf isn't even a very popular game to play over here; it's far more popular in other countries. In numbers alone, golf has more of a claim to olympic inclusion than Pato ever will.
Dressage is at the olympics Pato can't be any more bourgeois than dressage
It's just a guy trying to white knight. Most of these examples aren't viable as international sports, because they are barely viable where they are from. Plus USA real strength is track and field, but he didn't attack that category because it doesn't fit the narrative
Wait until this guys hears about the Winter Olympics
Winter Olympics will be a failure...I'm sure of that cause I'm Italian,from Turin(remember Turin 2006?).Winter Olympics had to be in my city,but our stupid last mayor make us loose!!!So the next winter Olympics will be in Milan...a great mess,cause Milan doesn't have MOUNTAINS for skiing,also bob or another winter sport will be competed in Turin!!!Here IOC just made a mess...
@@LuLulu-jw3zwnot all events are held within the city. This years surfing events were held in Tahiti.
😂😂😂
Milano-Cortina-Bormio-Anterselva-Predazzo-Verona Olympics🥴
@@LuLulu-jw3zwNorthern Italians stay mad
I mean, the real reason why the us and China always dominate the top spots of the medal tables is because they both are large wealthy countries with lots of people and resources to put into preparing for the games, rather than what events are included. Event accessibility bias I feel is a lot more prominent in the winter games where most countries don’t even have access to half of the terrain required to practice many winter sports, and if they do it’s often incredibly expensive so very much has a certain biased barrier of entry.
That's balanced out by the fact that the winter Olympics don't really matter outside of those countries.
Many sports are inaccessible in the summer Olympics too... Like mentioned swimming needs proper infrastructure, same with athletics... Canoeing needs water with no waves, canoe Slalom needs wild rivers with currents. Sailing needs a big body of water, surfing needs good waves, etc.
Infrastructure, and weather dependent sports are always going to create an uneven playing field. Winter Olympics is not really that different, swimming and skating are probably equally "inaccessible". Surfing, canoe slalom, sailing, and canoeing is probably similar to alpine skiing. Cross country skiing is similar to cycling. The list goes on.
there’s also like 30 ping pong events
In this Olympics there were 5 table tennis events: individual (Men's, women's), team (Men's, women's) and mixed Doubles.@@Vortex_013
@@Vortex_013 theres like 4 or 5 bro
To be fair, you can't play ice hockey in the summer. Ice hockey is part of the Winter Olympics.
It was bandy. Hockey is already in the Olympics
You certainly CAN with enough money. And oh, look at that, the US has enough money for indoor ice arenas.
To be fair, it does originate from Europe. At any rate, I would totally watch sumo wrestling at the Olympics!
Eastern Europe though,
@@sumanamukherjee2423 Greece is a Western European exclave
@@sumanamukherjee2423 greece is southern europe, and was the center of Europe when the olimpics started
I bet my horses on the Bolivian or American sumo wrestler xD
@@FTN_Alewhen the olybic started only italy and greece existed in Europe.
And Italy wasn't even invited. These were pure greek games
To be fair, sumo has such deep roots in Japanese culture it used to actively discriminate against foreginers. Also, not many other countries have sumo centers at all (mostly places with a large Japanese minority). So, not much fun for an internarional event
Only ice hockey could be one
Edit: yes, I now know ice hockey is an olympic sport
I mean, not all countries let their civilians use guns too but shootings are there in the Olympics
@@ItsBeePOfficial what country doesn't use guns
@@joshuafrimpong244 a lot
Guns are only allowed by the army and some police
There exist other amazing sports.
search highlights of pro kabadi online it's an insane sport from india I love it then many countries got ancient sports if Olympics can't make them competition it should at least make a show of them it would give world a good exposure to diff sports
The longest serving IOC president was actually French and served for 29 years vs 20 years for the American one
Someone finnaly said it!
Twas the very first one, wasn't it?
Shows you how much "research" this guy actually did
He was the first one
@@MegaTeckguyjust because he got one fact wrong doesn't discredit his entire argument
I've always thought there are way too many swimming competitions in the Olympics
No, we love em. Australia always does really well In the pool. 💪🇦🇺
@@castleanthrax1833 I am sure you love them. But it does'nt change the fact that there are still way too many divisons for swimming compared to other sports 😂😂. Happy new year tho
@@AbiduddinAhmed
Swimming is a sport unlike any other. If you could run four different ways the track events would have an equal number of events, as well. It is a function of swimming itself and won't change because some people think others have a perceived advantage.
@@Colby753 That way every sports can be developed to have particular niche. You dont see a ton of variations in combat sports based on the style used. By using your logic every sport should have different sub events. Maybe watch the video again
@@AbiduddinAhmed
I didn't use any logic. I stated a fact (swimming is done 4 ways), and a likely possibility (track events would have many more events if running was done 4 ways).
By IOC rules, a sport must be played in several countries in order to be an Olympic sport. This explains why many national sports are not included in the Olympics.
SEPAK TAKRAW - 650 milllion population of South East Asia , NOT ENOUGH ?.
Apparently not…
@@ulooqulgjust only SEA nation which is, 10 nation? It's not worldwide enough mate. You still get sepak takraw at SEA games and Asian games.
@@ulooqulgonly being played is SEA doesn’t qualify it LMAO
@frankgarcia9045
21 nations played in its World Championships.
Its a staple of ASIA GAMES , 2nd most biggest sport event and recognised by IOC and its association.
Sports are played by more people and bloody more interesting... than that breakdance...LoL
I think the problem with adding more niche sports from different countries is that they don’t have enough international participants to compete in it. It’s not a bias necessarily, just not enough people to actually play it.
And as a kayaker I love that we have enough slalom kayaker on this planet to have it as a sport in the summer Olympic Games. Of course there’s just one goddess: Jessica Fox, but there are enough others, who are good enough to make things interesting.
For sure, although there are sports where that’s not true, but it’s more complicated than that. Like rugby, cricket, baseball
Kabaddi is played by 60+ countries but still not included. Because of racism not a single West country play kabaddi all Asians...why the hell basketball is included then?? When westboakys a sport it forces other countries to learn it, but never learn no western sports
@@unitedbeast6614I hope English is your second (or third, fourth, etc) language because I about had a stroke reading your comment. Also don't be so quick to play the racism card, if things were as biased as you say then Football (American) would be included. It could very well be the fact that most people don't know what the hell Kabaddi is.
@@jacedostal4399You're wrong, most western people don't know what it is. Doesn't mean it shouldn't be included.
This is what I doom scroll for. Very interesting stuff 👌🏽
The lack of representation for obscure sports should be the least of anyone's concerns when it come to the IOC.
What exactly?
@@MarieAmeliaFreyaAster probably cheating and having biases
Obscure to Americans... Despite banning Russia, increasing events Americans are good at, defaming china and exempting Americans to be able to use doping, America still has not been able to get more gold than any other country. So to avoid an other country getting more gold than America when the next Olympics held in America, America should add china in the ban to compete.
Obscure sports like the second most popular sport in the world, cricket?
And 3 * 3 basketball can just walk into the games. What a scam, this comment and the games as well.
That's why IOC Don't allow Kabbadi game but allow break dance.
Break dance is no longer an Olympic sport.
I don’t think American athletes would struggle with Kabaddi. I’ve watched a game on ESPN plus and it is not hard to understand. Our athletes are the best. And it is not a particularly technical sport. I’m sure we could medal in it pretty easily.
@@wwpjd28LOL Even seen India and Iran Kabaddi Matches?
@wwpjd28 sure they would. It's like saying og boxing is just throwing punches. There's a science to it just like kabbadi
@@wwpjd28"our athlete " what a joke 90% of ur athlete aren't even natives just immigrants
You can make the same argument that American football and baseball the most popular sports in the us aren’t in the Olympics . The reason many of these sports aren’t in the Olympics is not because of some pro us bias but because they aren’t popular around the world . Most Europeans don’t know how American football is played and most Americans don’t know how cricket is played . I feel like this video has a bias.
American football has steadily become more popular over here in Europe.
I, however, see a problem in trying to have a proper football tournament in as little as 2 weeks or however long the olympics last.
The example of swimming pools is wild, as most smaller cities have 25 meter pools in Europe and larger cities in Asia (and more affluent parts of SA and Africa), while 50 meter pools can be found in larger cities
Hey you’re the GTA guy!
what a ridiculous argument 😂
There is rugby in the Olympics and baseball is back for the next Olympics as well (This will be the seventh time men's baseball and sixth time women's softball has appeared at the Olympic Games.).
@@Haru2609 yes they did have rugby, but that was rugby sevens, not "real" rugby that is popularly played around the world.
Gaelic football is genuinely such a fun sport to watch, it’d be fantastic for other countries to start playing it, so entertaining
In order to have a sport in the Olympics many countries need to have that sport. It's the sane reason cheerleading isn't there because it's mostly only done in America
American Football is a prime example
@ericzingeler7140 it will be added in LA 2028 for the first time. Guaranteed gold for America
@Glen-qh5xqbaseball was in 2021
@@eezing140funnily enough american football is growing rapidly world wide, its now in a few dozen countries and across every continent except antartica for obvious reasons
@@derrickmeade4891 facts im in Iceland and they have a Football team that travels
I don’t think there’s a bias in not including certain countries’ obscure national sports, but I do think they could be more inclusive of sports that have more international appeal - like cricket. Why is cricket not in the Olympics? Baseball is an example of an American sport that DOES have international appeal but is weirdly absent from the summer Olympics.
Traditional cricket matches are simply too long to be played in any practical way during a two week Olympics. (The traditional cricket match is 5 days long.) Now that shorter versions have been developed, cricket is scheduled to be played at the Los Angeles games in 2028.
Baseball is a sport that has been part of the Olympics. Every summer Olympics from 1992-2008, then was back for the 2020 games, and will be again for 2028
Cricket will be in the next summer Olympics (along with the return of baseball). Apparently cricket was a part of the games in 1900, but only two countries sent teams back then.
@@gemmeldrakes2758Then why not have T20 or one-day cricket?
@@kaderiley3076yeah I just think it’s weird that they’ve only been including it in years when the host country has a domestic fan base (like when it was brought back for the 2020 Tokyo Olympics). Baseball, by most accounts, is considered one of the top ten most popular global sports, yet the olympics consistently features more obscure sports like fencing and athletics before it. MLB does need to suspend the regular season to allow the best players in the world to participate every four years though.
As an Australian, we're mostly happy with lots of swimming in the Olympics. It's where most of our medals come from too.
Yep
Yea but Australia isn't even a real place
Nah bruh u did him bad 💀@@kawkasaurous
Pour moi les Australiens sont vraiment surprenants. 4e du classement des médailles avec une population de seulement 26 million de personnes?! Vous êtes vraiment une terre de sportifs. Félicitations.
Exactly, three of Sweden's four gold medals came in swimming and beach woolyball. Sweden where 9 out of 12 months are covered with snow.
Instead of national sports, one should ask which sport is the biggest in the country. And for the US, not even the biggest sport is in the Olympics.
The whole clip is about hating the West.
Ice Hockey is in the Winter Olympics......
There will never be another traditional Japanese martial art represented in the olympics because many of the federations in charge of Japanese Budo “sports” want to protect the way the sports are done from changing the same way judo has changed due to influence from being included in the olympics. For example, the blue judo gi was introduced in the Olympics so that viewers could tell the opponents apart from each other. It’s not traditional. In particular, the kendo federation doesn’t want the sport to evolve the same way traditional fencing has to become sleek and technologically integrated. It takes away from the budo practice. Sumo can only be done in sacred arenas blessed by priests, and women aren’t allowed to step foot in those arenas. It was controversial when a sumo wrestler collapsed and a female doctor rushed to help him and was reprimanded for setting foot in the arena.
Most of the sports represented in the Olympics might be American or Eurocentric, but some of the other national sports found around the world may have a large group of people who don’t want to see that event or practice change into some regulated sporting event just for spectacle. Some of them are sacred, and some aren’t done to determine winners or losers.
Oh good!! I was worried Kyudo and Aikido might be added to the world championships/olympic games, and be completely ruined, but you're telling me they're safe. I can relax then!
Thank you for talking about this. Not many people know
The fact that a woman doctor is criticized for rendering medical care shows that perhaps that sport should change a little. Way to keep the misogyny alive.
Well said. Many of these “sports” don’t have quantifiable metrics to judge by either. Hence why breakdancing should never have made it to the Olympics. It’s an art form not a sport.
@@lloydlego6088 lol you want an entire country to change a cultural tradition to conform to your principles. Get real
The 5 badminton events were added since 1996, additional diving events were added in 2000, and all table tennis events have been added since 1988.
There was no women's boxing until 2012.
@user-ip8bd7hd2n Table tennis and Badminton are great sports. 👍 Table tennis, very international, very fast. Badminton, very international, very fast and taxing. Superb sports.
What? Badminton made its debut in Argentina in 1992, get yout facts right mate.
@@ClemenGG Exhibition sports in 1992. Not exactly wrong.
@@beerharmien wrong, Susi Susanti and Alan Budikusuma won both their gold medals in 1992, and also the korean pairs, the exhibition was in Seoul 1988.
we need an ironlandian Olympic president
Landic
Where is iron land?
Thanks
Gordon Freemλn
Why not the Olympics were made by the Greeks, and so was democracy So the Olympics having presidents only seems right
@@richardmason7840 Asheville NC apparently
When you consider that a lot of these sports that we view as "American" are also played internationally, it makes sense to include them. On the other hand, a lot of these sports that aren't included are only really played in their respective home countries.
These sports are played internationally because they were included in the olympics by americans so long ago, not the other way round.
@@Orneyrocks1609Cricket will be olympic in 2028, the 2nd time after 1900. And it's also not really a global sport, it's only really played in Britain and some former British colonies (although this includes very big countries like India or Pakistan).
Also the majority of sports in the Summer Olympics is almost eclusively played in Europe and North America.
I think in general the bias of the olympics is western, not just American.
@@rfvtgbzhn I agree with you, I just used american sports due to the short itself focusing more on them.
@@Orneyrocks1609 You guys are looking at it incorrectly, the sports that are most natural to humans should have many medals, such as weight lifting, running, and swimming. Sports that have high levels of abstractions and rules should only be included if they are popular in many countries.
@@bobbabb That's an ad hoc explanation. Let's say we do assume that to be true, then why does swimming have more medals than track and field? Haven't humans have been running and jumping since long before we learnt to swim?
1. Invent a sport
2. No one plays it
3. Declare world championship
🇺🇸 🔫 🦅 🔫
And what sport does your nation have that every nation plays that isn't soccer?
@VaqueroCervantez idk what soccer is, but I know everyone plays football, and US sucks at it
@@joaopedro.8206Lol, nice burn
@@joaopedro.8206we are literally average
@@VaqueroCervantezbasketball, track, swimming, tennis, baseball, volleyball, and hockey
Kabaddi would be an amazing Olympic event. It's played fairly widely, and is a low infrastructure sport that would allow competition from poorer countries. It's also great fun to watch.
Played fair widely where? In India?
Although i think kabbadi is super fun to watch, i just don’t completely get the rules
@@fennugreek-gs5zb one question: what's that?
@@joshuafrimpong244 It's a sport popular in South Asia that feels like a school-yard development. A player from one team needs to invade the other team's region, touch one of the opposing team, and escape back to their own side. The opposing team draws the player deep into their zone and can tackle them once touched. In the original rules, the invader needed to repeat the word "Kabbadi" over and over without taking a breath, otherwise they were out. Modern Kabbadi usually has a fixed time to invade, and there are a several variations. It looks a bit like rugby 7's played without a ball. tldr: Google it.
@@gwo-burneloh9493 Once you accept that South Asia contains about 1/4 of the earth's population, "It's only done in Bangladesh, India, and Pakistan" becomes much less exclusionary. And world kabbadi has spread beyond the sub-continent. The New Zealand Women's team has placed very well, for example.
It's like an athletic version of wrestling😅@@joshuafrimpong244
I don’t think random sports only played in one country are going to be in the Olympics, heck baseball isn’t even in the Olympics.
It will be in 2028 and softball I believe
I always thought the host country got to introduce a sport into the Olympics, it makes sense if these places never host they don’t have the national sports in the Olympics
Baseballs played in other countries, though. That seems like an odd comparison.
The way a sport gets into the Olympics is it has to be widely practiced in at least 75 countries by men and at least 40 countries by women. It’s unfortunate that some countries national sports aren’t in the Olympics, but there are rules in place about the whole thing. Host cities also choose 5 sports to add when they host, they have to qualify but still. It’s not rigged for the US or anything, the US just has one of the largest talent pools to pull from, having a large population with facilities for most of it
@@dyanimoriah Well, it's going to take place in the US, so it makes sense. It's unlikely to become a staple.
And it's not the number of medals that count
>"For swiming you need these large facilities in urban centers"
>"Why isn't this obscure sport included that requires horses for every player and a massive field"
Geez, one of these sports seems way less accessible and it isn't the one that requires a pool full lf water
Ice hockey.
Equestrian.
But... that wasn't his point... lol
He was just pointing out one of the many reasons why the US is historically very succesfull in swimming.
Why not include Kabaddi then? Majority of Asian countries play kabaddi
Kabaddi probably has been played by wat more people than most sports in the Olympics.
No, his point was that the olympics are unfair because of it. Which makes no sense.
Today I learned that most countries don't have enough space for a swimming pool.
it's never too late to learn my man. just look outside the western world.
Only indoor sports stadiums and 5* hotels may have swimming pools. Which you can tell are very rare in most countries
let's see how many countries can afford schools with olympic pools and a own swim team.
@@roketynoramallorca2882"Enough space" not "enough money"
@@roketynoramallorca2882there are middle schools with pools in America. If you're country is so poor they can't afford swimming pools the Olympics shouldn't be on their mind
Something else to think about is how so many sports in the Olympics actually need to be expanded on. There are many types of gymnastics and archery that could easily be added and would be well accepted around the world
Most big powers will then lose their position. Fyi Indians are toppers in compound archery.
Kabaddi is the most deserving sport
@@ankanmaiti9864 sadly compound archery is not there in olympics 🥲
@@ankanmaiti9864Lose what position? That's only one sport
@@unitedbeast6614what even is a "kabaddi"
It’s a shame Breaking won’t be in the next games, it was actually entertaining to watch.
There's also a graphic that shows all the medals won by athletes born, raised, and trained in the US who compete for other countries.
I think this guy is just anti-American.
You guys import a few too.
where’s the graphic
@@larsmoney1013 I think the majority of my country South Africa's top athletes train in America. Even French swimmer Leon Marchand(he won 4 golds) trains in Arizona. It's not like it's a secret.
@imjustme110 yeah, but just training in America shows what a strong country it is. I don't think the guy who made the video should dis them.
Basketball is HUGE in Europe. So that’s the reason it’s in the olympics. Don’t think that only Americans play it
I don't think he knows a lot about sports.
Basketball isn’t that big tbh. You’ll barely people playing it in the streets.
@@Pezzerd very popular in Eastern Europe
@@Pezzerd it's also a very popular sport in Asia as well, like China and Japan for example.
He never said that only Americans play it. Basketball and beach volleyball are both sports that originated from the US - basketball in Springfield College and beach volleyball in Hawaii (volleyball itself in Massachusetts). That was why he called them American sports.
My friend explaining to me why he didn’t loose his bet:
FYI there should be even more swimming events like distance medleys, coed distance medleys, relays, etc.
I didn't even know breakdancing was an Olympic sport.
Countries who host can choose a new sport to include, France chose breakdancing. So it was only ever going to be a one-time only thing
Wdc wanted Ballroom dancing but settled on break dancing to attract the younger people. The media propped up RayGun to get views. The others were good.
It is, and it's called breaking, not "breakdancing". This was the first year it's been featured. It's not happening at the next one in LA (which was decided on about a year ago), but it could still be the one after that in Brisbane.
@@420sakura1none of what you claimed is accurate.
WDC has been trying to get ballroom in the Olympics for decades, about four or so years ago they decided to support breaking to become an Olympic sport (presumably with the hope that this could open consideration for ballrofor ballroomsidered).
Attracting a younger audience was not the primary goal, and it was definitely chosen by the host country of France for this year's Paris Olympics due to the popularity and strength of the breaking culture there.
Raygun achieved her position fairly within the official parameters of the Olympic breaking qualifiers. Although rereading your comment now, I understand that you may have been suggesting with your second-to-last sentence that the media has disproportionately focused on her, and not that you were suggesting she was some kind of media plant.
Finally, all the Olympic competitors in breaking were good, including Raygun (who is a good dancer, but evidently and regrettably was not on her A game in the moment), just some were significantly better than others.
@blakesby she was and is a horible person that can not dance and there is a lot of foul play . She deserves to have all of her actions questioned and needs to be investigated for fraud.
I can't believe that break dancing was introduced as an "Olympic sport" before skating.
Both come from America
Skating is in the Winter Olympics
What about Roller Skating like in Racing Format
@@casarooo5704 hes talking about skateboarding i think. And I’ll tell you skate boarding is hard asf I’ve snapped my shit up like 5 times
Break dancing should be a hobby and passion....not a sport
If mountain climbing was a 40 gold medal sport, Nepal would win 40 gold medals.
And if i had a billion dollars, i would be a billionaire.
Nepal would send all their sherpas to the Olympics....lol
But I guess it would be part of winter Olympics
The real heroes in all Everest mountain climbing stories are the Sherpas, so it's about time they get the limelight ❤️
Sherpas are insane in certain areas, especially their low oxygen tolerance. However if it comes to technical complexity they would not win
How would the IOC fit a mountain inside their stadiums?
Hate the game not the player
Don't forget how much resources and facilities the top 10 countries have, and don't get me started on how they have SO MANY more players than most of the other countries.
that’s kinda the whole point? the Olympics are proving the athletic prowess of a country, you don’t get athletic prowess from not investing a boat load of time and money.
The U.S. doesn't even sponsor its athletes, as every other country does ...
lmao bangladesh has 170,000,000 people and 0 medals in 80 years. just get good
Yeah but if your country is dirt poor or is extremely unstable it's not like the Olympics can bankroll tens of new training centers, coaches, and athletic scholarships for every country that needs it.
A good example is actually Bangladesh. The majority of their population is in poverty, and the country has a history of revolutions and unstable governments. Meaning there isn't lots of money or athletes to be found.
Also the guy in the video cherry picked his data, the reason all those countries national sports aren't in the Olympics is cause they are the only ones who play them. Even the US's football and baseball arnt even in the Olympics unless the country that is hosting them plays it. Its simply a matter of popularity.
What's the connection with the single US president and events? It feels like it is a complaint desperately searching for a fall guy.
They are.
@@can-i-go-now This sentence no verb.
Besides that, saying that Avery Brundage is bad because he added swimming events isn't even scratching the surface of why he was bad. Check out the Behind the Bastards episodes on him for more.
Your president your sports will be included
@@username_PK Other presidents were forbidden from making changes?
Part of this issue is also that if there isnt enough global intrest certain sports wont be added.
Yeah like Muay Thai… even though popular in Thailand and other south east Asia countries … it not that well known outside unless you include MMA
@@einstein_god there's like a dozen of muay thai gyms in my city, in brazil. Muay thai is very well known by now and is practiced by several countries
I think it could qualify as an olympic sport, but I also think it's not going to happen
Honestly, that's a good thing
@@ulysses-pact yes but other countries need to recognize it at an official level
I think there are two main factors: global interest AND the ability to hold a tournament within the 16 days of the Olympic schedule.
Rugby (proper rugby, not sevens) for instance has mass appeal, but the game is much too arduous to have a tournament in as little as 16 days (or even 18 days as is the case with football).
Cricket has even wider appeal - roughly 400 million people tune in for any game between Pakistan and India. But until the advent of the short format T20 cricket, it was simply not practicable to hold a proper tournament for it.
Skateboarding and break dancing is global? 😂😂😂😂 And the frickin Fencing!
I lost the awe of the Olympics which i used to have when im kid😅 now they feel like commerical event nothing more
Interesting enough to hear, all of these sports are played around the world and the others you mentioned are not.
do you think Alpine Skiing and Horseback Riding are played around the world?
Bandy is played on three continents.
@@_magnifyHow is skiing not played during winter?
@@_magnifyyes
@@fabianauer1986Do you think every single country has winter?
Cricket is one of the most watched sport. 300 million watched the WC final. But it is not in the Olympics 😢
Will be in the next Olympics
There's a good reason.
Watched and played are two different things.
@@usx06240it's the second most watched sport in the world and has over 250 million players 🤣
@@grays617 That is an argument for there being too many games in the Olympics, not for the inclusion of cricket. Curling? Ridiculous (although there are are 70 worldwide members). Besides, cricket matches are HOURS long.
In order to qualify, a sport needs to be played "widely" on 4 continents. Hockey is an Olympic sport
@Tru982Cricket is being added to the 2028 Olympics hosted in LA. Hopefully, it'll be taken seriously and not follow in the footsteps of football and baseball where the best sportspeople don't show up.
Also, I don't think it's fair to blame the west and America for cricket's delayed inclusion. Many host countries simply didn't have cricket infrastructure and many cricket boards were opposed to joining the Olympics such as the BCCI.
The video shows bandy for Russia not hockey.
Cricket not being in olympic is puzzling
Apparently America is the only country with 50 meters in its cities to build swimming pools who woulda thought
Yeah I mean, here in Brazil we have all conditions to be a superpower at swimming but we’re not. It’s definetly not only about conditions you have in your country…
@@Gustavovisk21bone density
it’s obviously not just the space but the constant 24 hour year long maintenance that a pool needs to be functional, especially rlly big ones
you learned something new today. good for you. only the western societies have the ability for this infrastructure. (I don't include china, because they have a different system)
Australia has the 50m pools and not all but in the city I believe most stay open year round
Bro cricket is included in 2028 olympics 🔥🔥🔥
The sport's which England invented but they suck at at the soorts.
@@420sakura1 like every sport the English invented
@420sakura1 Not necessarily they suck at it cause they have won 3 different World Cups in Cricket far better than football/soccer(only 1).
America for the Upset!!!!!
A good way to attract people from India, Pakistan and more from the region to take more interest at Olympics
On the other side ... The Olympics also have many global sports that aren't popular in the U.S. and that they struggle to get any medal or sometimes even qualify , like Handball, Table Tennis, Badminton, Rhythm Gymnastics, Field Hockey, Rugby, Race walk ....
How many medals are in each of these types of sports? And who added them in the Olympic in the first place? What region were good at them when they were added to the list?
Stop it with your facts! 😂
Great point.
The US medaled in women's rugby. The issue with field hockey is everyone else considers it a male sport but it's only a female sport in the USA so there's no development. We'd likely do very well in women's field hockey.
Field Hockey is moderately well known in America but its strictly a womens sport.
As someone from Bangladesh, nobody really cares about kabbadi here honestly, you'd find more pro kabbadi players in some indian district probably. Cricket and football is way more popular over here
Yes. Let's get cricket back into the Olympics. ✌️🇦🇺
That slapping competition should be an Olympic sport. That’s something I would be glued to the screen and watch from beginning to end 😂
It would be silly to have obscure national games at the Olympics, but yes, there are waaaaay too many swimming medals, and it's not like if you train for one you can't compete for the others
I don't think so i know they can't make competition but friendly fights or showcasing them on such a big events can be good for the sports.
Try searching pro kabadi highlights on youtube it's an insane sport from india which nobody knows but my god is it good would recommend 💯
which is why basketball should also not be in the olympics hot take
@@mossbugprincess
...Wha.. why..?
@@Owain_Lord_Of_Glyndyfrdwy Because it's pretty obscure everywhere except for the US.
@@Owain_Lord_Of_Glyndyfrdwy Most likely a baiter LOL!
Oh yeah because breakdancing was a better addition to the Olympics than more swimming events.
Unironically yes. Or how much swimming events do you need fgs?
Proves his point dear USA won gold in it 😂😂
They have dancing but not cricket, world second most popular sport
@@mukeshdhami2492
Also kabaddi should be added.
False dichotomy. Who said either needed to be added?
As an Argentine, if they put pato into the olympics i would be so happy. Such a beautiful sport
Australia's national sport is AFL (footy). The problem is, a lot of national sports aren't played anywhere else (well except nauru). But an event with 2 teams world wide doesn't make sense for an Olympic games. The same reason for many nation sports being missed
mate im sorry but its cricket because the tossas in NSW and Queensland like rugby so afl only has half the country whilst the whole country plays cricket. -also soccer is the most popular sport amongst kids so ...
Rugbys better
@@CashOut3 thats your opinion and i agree that rugby union is better than League but i havent played either so i wouldnt know
@@ExampleName-j2n In terms of numbers playing at a grass roots and numbers in seats at a professional level AFL is still on top. Most people really only care about test cricket and even then it's pretty rare and only one of AFL and rugby has made any progress crossing the Berassi line so I think it's safe to say Australia's sport is Australia's sport
I think when he says national sport he means the recognised national sport. Australia doesn't technically have a national sport, although if there was to be one, cricket would have a huge advantage in being the lowest common denominator sport. However, soccer is growing quite rapidly and may take over cricket.
It would also be tough to find athletes of these sports from other countries where the sport isn’t the national sport
Netball is also trying to included in the Olympics! It was rejected for this year because there isn't enough participation in some continents, especially Asia.
It's a huge commonwealth game, dominated by England, Australia and New Zealand, but slowly picking up around the world!
Forgot about Netball. Yet another more commonwealthy sport alongside Rugby (sevens don’t count we need a proper mixed code), Cricket, Snooker, Darts and Mixed Football (AFL / Gaelic Football) that are missing
@@DynMorgannwg I do think that another main consideration for inclusion of these sports is the facility! I'd imagine a lot of countries wouldn't be able to accommodate some sports due to the lack of facilities to host as many teams and games. The number of stadiums required to host 3 field sports concurrently 😅
Hopefully Brisbane!!
@@tilroxnetball facilities arent that far from basketball all you need is a gym, netballs, bibs and the hoop its got a relatively cheap start price facility wise
@@DynMorgannwgCricket is included in la 28 🎉 🤩
Avery brundage was also a track and feild athelete himself, and thats why all of those small separate sports are in it, but not multiple competitions from other sports. Most other sports will have limited sections.
I have to hard disagree with the message here. Whether it's Jamaica in the short sprints, Kenya in the long runs, Taekwondo, Javelin, Long jump, countries have a fair opportunity to win. It's down to their respective governments to create the appropriate facilites and relevant tournaments to decide and for their athletes to train. You can say America has an unfair advantage but that is due to funding, events, population and having many of these facilities countrywide. Not down to who runs the IOC. If India were interested in winning more than America, they have the means to compete. It's a worldwide event and the fun isn't in getting the most medals but rather watching the best of the best compete and be in awe at their skill (Bonus if your country wins an event).
I don’t think it makes sense for a sport that requires multimillion dollar facilities to have 40 separate events at the Olympics.
@@_magnifythere's a big enough difference between events to justify making a new one
Totally agree. I would like to add a point here, let's take swimming as an example. If USA Aus are winning many medals in that event, it's not by just participating right. They have to qualify then heats semis and then top 3 in the finals. So their atheletes are good enough to qualify in in multiple events. So who is stopping you to do that. It's simple if you don't get medals then complain about an unfair due. What non sense. If china level up its swimming post 2008 then it means then why not india. After all you got almost same population and call yourself a future superpower. India has more youths than any other countries then where is the problem? Problem is not that IOC is favouring anyone. Basically you got identify in which multi displine event you have more chances. For example track and field so many games are there. Can't you produce a pole vault, triple jump, long jump, high jump, throws etc infra. Would it cost your fortune? Not at all. Need to understand blame game is not part of an Olympic event as such where you have medal chances so start playing instead
@@_magnifyit's not required. But don't expect your athletes would have a comfortable training. All your yapping is more of a jealousy that someone bested you.
@@_magnifyYou know, there is an alternative to pools to practice swimming in, it’s a large body of water called the ✨Ocean✨ and usually the countries that do well in swimming also happen to be near them. Like how Australia does well in swimming, because most of their population lives on the coastal areas. Crazy huh? Kinda like the misinformation in the video that you haven’t acknowledged yet. Like how you said the only American IOC president was the longest serving, even though he wasn’t. Avery Brundage served for 20 years, which is 9 years shorter than Baron Pierre de Coubertin who served for 29 years as the IOC president. (He was French)
You should have also noted that beach volleyball was introduced to the Olympics in 1996, well after Brundage had served as president.
Seems like you don’t do your research that well, do you?
This is misleading. There are many traditional sports in the US that are not Olympic sports. For example, professional cheer is a national sport, but the Olympic committee denied it becoming an Olympic sport since not enough people around the world played it. I think the reason you see a lot of sports in the Olympics that may have originated or been popularized in the USA, is more because of American influence than it is bias of the IOC. In fact, the IOC and the American Olympic committee haven't been getting along recently when it comes to the Chinese doping scandal and the stripping of an Olympic bronze.
Sure, but it probably was easier to increase swimming categories than add new sports.
It probably costs a lot less as well.
You're right other countries don't have traditional sports only USA has them. Do you know there are 7 continent, and there are people loving outside usa. Now you know. 🎉🎉
its clear why cheer isnt an olympic sport i used to do it and im from england its not very widespread or popular but things like muay thai, netball, competitive dance and cricket are
If there's no influence, then why do they have 29 swimming events? Only the super wealthy nations can afford building such huge swimming facilities.
I mean… but if there is a national sport that no other country plays…. What’s the point of including it in the Olympics. Fair competition should be the goal, not monopoly…
Yeah, that's why there is quotas for allowing a sport at the Olympics. It need to be practiced in multiple continents, in a certain number of countries, and having a certain number of person who practices in the sportive federation. So yeah, you won't add national sport when they are only know in their country, that would be really unfair
Fun fact: most Olympic swimmers train in Florida
...and?
@@bobbycheese2793 so America has some of the best training facilities so they usually have better olympians
I don't think you could really have Sumo in the olympics. It's not just a sport, it's a ritual as well.
And it's also extremely unhealthy to be a sumo wrestler, they have an average lifespan of like 40 or something
Definitely not something the Olympics wants to promote
Kabaddi in the olympics would be mad fun
Boring if anything, they should reduce the sports.
It makes the stake much higher.
I don’t disagree with the swimming thing but basketball is an international sport, it’s not in the Olympics just because the president is American and it’s an “American sport”
It was invented there. The only competition for americans was yugoslavia but that does not exist anymore.
@@zootoo9232 Serbia is still a very formidable opponent, did you even watch the Olympics??
It's cuz of them playing it for so long and the US dominating culturally that it's so popular. Other sports given the same lime light would do the same if not better.
@@sourswift there are many sports like basketball which even played by more countries but still they are not in Olympics.
Basketball is in the Olympics. Am I missing something?
History and Rules are always written by the strong. There will come a time, when more games from Asia will dominate and Asian countries will dominate the top spots in the Olympics.
I want to see more sword fighting than just Olympic fencing in the olympics. As cool as Olympic fencing is different sword types change so much how someone would fight. I would love it if there was at least a saber, longsword and rapier category or even a mixed sword fighting event.
This guy just ignores the fact that there are conditions for a sport to be eligible for the Olympics. Heaps of these national sports are not played anywhere else, hence, they don’t have enough countries to be considered for the Olympics
I was just gonna say when people bitch about Americans caring more about the Super Bowl or Stanley Cup than the FIFA World Cup, but then we still take gold in a piss load of other sports that people around the world meddling participate in, but then send representatives from their country as well for everyone to compete.
Glosses over the fact that rope climbing and tug-a-war were literally Olympic sports in the past haha
What conditions did Breakdancing meet? I'd genuinely like to know.
@@beastascrahat6002clearly jumping like a rabbit was one of them
@@spacecats2185Only for the Australians tho. Lmfao
The added swimming events weren’t just new events created to help Americans win. They were all pre existing swimming events they added to expand upon the event.
You also conventionally left out all the non American events that have been added over the last 24+ years or so. Like badminton, rhythmic gymnastics, added events for diving.
The Olympic Games are not skewed towards American medals. And the longest IOC president was actually a Frenchman who served almost 10 years and 3 Olympics longer than the American president.
watching someone swimming is as fun as not watching someone swimming.
American football isn’t in the Olympics. It’s a HUGE sport here. It’s not in the Olympics because no other country plays the game as seriously as we do. That’s what those other sports aren’t in the Olympics.
Edit: Why tf is everyone tripping?? I was contradicting what the guy in the video was saying. His point makes no sense. The biggest sport in the US is not in the Olympics but somehow the Olympic committee is biased to the US??
It will be soon with flag football
They just added flag football dude 😂😂😂
Here we have rugby. It's cooler
It's called Rugby.. Nothing is like American football, Spanish football,German Football,Indian Football...Yours is Rugby and Football which is watched by billions.
You mean Handball running, 😅
Going to push back on this. My grandfather was Australian and was a competitive swimmer. His training wasn’t done in a pool at all, but in a nearby river.
Expand your mind, sir.
Yeah it seems like a relatively smooth brain take to have when you consider horses came from the Asian steppes
Most countries have plenty of large pools even in big cities and dense urban areas. If developed countries can’t build a large recreational center or some type of public or community building with access to amenities to practice sports, that’s their fault.
I was about to say, there are always countries that share the competitiveness in a sport. Australia is a prime example for good competition in swimming. Jamaica in running athletics is another. It is just rare that America competes well in multiple events instead of only one. Just like China competes well in a different set of events that have many classes (badminton, competitive diving, table tennis, badminton, weight lifting)
@@jkrowdy I don’t understand why you say “it is rare that America competes well in multiple events instead of only one”. As far as I know, no country even approaches the Americans in terms of gold medals. Could you explain what you meant with an example?
I love how his content is a mix of iron and interesting topics
Sumo in the olympics would go SO hard. Imagine these giants duking it out next to all the other wrestlers would be awesome
I thought hockey was in the winter olympics?
The Russians were playing Bandy. It's similar but different
Yeah it's been in olympics for more the 100 years
@@JoshuaKimbroughWell then this is a stupid video lol. Of course highly localized sports aren't in the Olympics
@austin3853 yeah this one is a miss.
@@austin3853it's a very "I hate America" coded video. Beach volleyball isn't a national pastime here. Most of the country is inland. Might as well say surfing is an American sport. Sure, it originated in HI but it's worldwide now. Same as basketball and baseball(which is coming back). Sumo has never been and will never be world wide as the Japanese don't want outsider doing it. He's also acting like tropical nations can't possibly swim as they don't have space for pools, that Aus just can't win because they don't have room for a pool, that China doesn't absolutely dominate in diving.
There are a lot of incorrect or misleading statements in this video. Probably low on clicks and wants to boost his page with baited comments.
He hasn’t done his research. Each Olympic host is allowed to pick which sports they want to include. That’s why Japan had baseball, France had breakdancing and the US will have flag football.
Just want to point out that this has literally only started happening since japan, Brazil and London or Beijing never got to pick anything
You missed one. The United States national sport isn't in the Olympics because we don't have one. American Football is our most popular sport and has never appeared.
Its appearing next time, along with baseball…
Australia sure seems to be very enthusiastic about the olympics
National Iranian sport “freestyle wrestling” is in Olympics and US still won
i believe there’s nothing between usa and iran lol. it’s more like china or russia etc
It’s still rigged. How many people represented the US. Like a 1000????? Of course they will have more medals.
The US has the best formation of training and tournaments in Wrestling, Basketball and football than any country...right from high school to college/University..
But Iran dominated in men's freestyle wrestling ranking also Greco-Roman one. so no US didn't won that one
@@Mersad7 freestyle US won. Greco Roman the US didn't even participate.
The dude complains about it being focused on europeans and americans when they host the most and started it
Someone tried to mansplain to me that the Olympics are Ancient Greek and not European and I just… like… do you know geography?
@chuck_duck the ancient Greeks didn't identify themselves as european though. They viewed most Europeans as barbarians, and had closer relations with middle-eastern peoples than say for example northern europeans.
Greeks didn't start viewing themselves as Europeans until after they lost claims to lands in Anatolia during the early 20th century.
Even if we started it or not. We have let Asian and Oceania,African countries to play. So its unfair if we still favour ourselves more than them.
@@BubbleyiesRiley Tell me a solution okay. We have been doing this for a century and guess what that means we put in the sports and we have been practicing. What is the soloution population based athlete guess what favors America and china. Give me a soloution.
@@stalkingcatstudios3698 The Olympics let multiple sports in. Is cricket there? As far as I know a lot of South Asian countries play cricket. If we let other countries in we let other countries decide too. We should have kept it just American and European but we didn't. Every country needs its own president at games like these. One president for what? Its rigged. A league of people deciding what sports should be in. Not one whole man deciding for all the 100+ countries. Solution is that or get rid of what makes the Olympics Olympics. Even Nazi Germany had Japan and African countries during the 1930s games. We made it. But everyone brought it forward. Every country in it. Not just the Euros and the Mericans. Who cares about the Greeks they don't even call themselves Europeans. Hell us Americans never started the Olympics the Greeks did. Either that solution or we just get rid of everyone let the Greeks play.
Cricket, Baseball and Rugby (likely a mixed code) have all been missing for ages. It took until 2016 for one of the biggest sports in the world (rugby) to be included but even then it was only sevens (which is very different to full). Meanwhile all the Track, Field and Pool sports you can think of are in there. Darts and Snooker are also widely played sports that have a noticeable absence
Cricket, Baseball, Rugby, etc are commonwealth sports. Nobody does them outside ex-British empire
Baseball has been in the Olympics a lot. It used to be one of the stable sports of the Olympics. It has been out recently, but will be back in for 2028.
@@annasolovyeva1013 So? Everybody still knows those sports, and that’s just not even true though. Baseball is played in the entire western hemisphere and Asia, even European countries and Australia managed to get a decent team together and make the world baseball classic tournament last year. Rugby too, most countries still have rugby teams and it’s not that unpopular at all, all you need is a ball and some space to run after all. Cricket is interesting because it’s mostly only popular in a handful of commonwealth countries, yes, but those countries still have very large populations. The truth is adding those sports to the Olympics is much more complicated than meets the eye, which is why they’ve bounced in and out. I could speak to baseball as a fan, there are so many reasons why baseball isn’t in the Olympics and why so many baseball fans themselves don’t want it to be.
@@annasolovyeva1013"outside of the ex British empire"
So half the world.......
@@annasolovyeva1013😂😂😂you’re acting like the British empire was small.Thats quarter of the world
If horseback riding isn’t in the Olympics but swimming is imma cry
I feel this video is kind of disingenuous... kind of lying by omission. There's more to it, because the real reason a lot of sports aren't in it is representation. If no one outside one/a few countries plays the sport, it can't be internationally represented and there would not be enough competitors. You're totally glossing over how a major national American sport, American football, also isn't the Olympics, for that very reason. Very few other countries play it. No one outside Japan does sumo. But also cricket, one of the most popular sports in the world, also isn't in because while millions, billions even, enjoy it, only a few countries play it.
A Cricket game is just too long for the Olympic Games. You need to play a certain number of matches to get the winner and you can’t do that in the two weeks of the Olympic Games when one game is actually several days long.
And yet, cricket will be in LA... in other words, this will probably be the 41st gold medal of the US. Same for other sports that almost no one plays at, appart from American and à few countries. Will there even be enough teams to compete in these sports?
@@Alexielios haven‘t you learned, that England makes the rules for cricket and therefore wins? And there will definitely be enough teams for cricket, pretty much every country in the commonwealth has a team.
Baseball is also absent from the Olympics despite being the sport of the US and nobody complains
Sumo is very much done outside of Japan. Jerk one of the most popular sumo in the past decade was from the country of Georgia. Using off the cuff remarks that are wrong to sound smart, just makes you look like a bigger idiot. There's literally no excuse for ignorance like this when you are using the world's largest knowledge repository to post blatantly lazy ignorance.
This dudes beefing with swimming, uhhh idk jump in a lake???
Yeah where the mosquitoes and diseases are, that should work just fine
Lap Swimming is very different from Open Water swimming.
@@_magnifywhat? You got some limited time water or some shit
@@_magnifyit’s not though, I learned to swim in a reservoir, and all my skills transferred to a swimming pool. Also if you have enough money to spend all year training for the Olympics, you have enough money to train in the US or afford to live somewhere with a pool
There’s a lot of info in this video that’s pretty far off. You really have to think about this a bit more.
The United States does not have this unfair advantage that you think it does. Adding things like sumo wrestling or the national sport of Argentina wouldn’t make much sense. It would actually give these countries an unfair advantage that the US does not have. These countries would easily dominate these events, as most of the rest of the world has never heard of or participated in many of these sports. These events like swimming are actually not that bad of matchups either, and they are overall close.
The United States does not have a national sport, and it still dominates the Olympics. Actually, it dominates other countries at their own national sports. Adding the national sports of other countries that are only participated in within those countries would be unfair in general. Not to mention, very few would watch or want to participate in these events. There would be no competition outside of the main country the sport is from. Like Japan would dominate sumo wrestling by far.
Finally, the most important part, the Olympics is about making money. Adding these events would be more money than it’s worth for what would be obtained from adding them. Adding events like more swimming is very easy to do because they already have the facilities to do. They do not, however, have the facilities to add some of the things you suggested. Therefore it just wouldn’t be worth doing.
It's definitely complicated, but consider that the Olympics already has highly localized sports like Alpine Skiing and Horseback Riding.
@@_magnifyalthough with those two, as with everything olympic, it really is about money. And not just the government supporting athletes, but simply being affluent enough to be able to pay for horse riding or skiing lessons. Without a affluent middle class that has the money to enable children to pursue these sports, the chances of winning a medal are slim. The horse was tamed in central asia after all, and there are plenty of mountain ranges with snow all over the world. Still you don’t see countries bordering the Andes or Himalayas win in the alpine events.
Yeah, the fact is it comes down to money. The Olympics are a product for entertainment after all, it's not a charity for ethnic exploration. I doubt an obscure sport played by maybe two handfuls of people in a single country is going to have the pull to be featured as an Olympic sport. Not to mention sports that require animals, are we testing human athletes or the ability of their animals now?
besides, if the us really cares about obscure sports like sumo, they could probably dominate that too within two decades and no one wants tk take away from Japanese culture
I mean.... Basketball has a bunch of games over a few weeks but generates 1 (maybe a 2nd) medal, whereas China won 8 of their gold in diving, 5 from shooting, table tennis, and weight lifting.... That's over half of their golds
I think the only complaint here is the US has money. Germany, China, Russia, England. They can all have these massive facilities as well, so not just a US thing.
Also, winter Olympics involve a shooting event. No one complains about it because we never win. Despite having more guns than people as every other country will point out any other moment.
England does not have the same amount of money as USA lol.Not even close and they put most their money into soccer which they don’t even compete in the Olympics anymore
@uzaidgurjee4798 Still though, we never win olympic shooting events. And England not having money is an England problem. They have the economy to support major industry.
My point was is the US is not a problem by their own. People just like to point fingers like they are.
This is the most Olympics I've ever watched without changing the channel.
Bro😅😂
China got 8 gold medals from diving events, which requires FAR more expensive, complex and large facilities compared to regular swimming centers with an Olympic swimming pool that can be found in much more places. China also got 5/5 possible gold medals in table tennis which has been completely dominated by China since forever and is essentially free gold medals for China and where everyone else is playing for silver (except a few odd years once every decade or so where S.Korea, Japan, Germany or Sweden has gotten maybe 1 of the available golds). The US does not have a sport where they are so dominant that they get all the possible gold medals, it’s kind of like having 5 different American football events at the Olympics.
I agree that swimming, diving and some athletics events in running have way to many medals and distances - but it’s not really a conspiracy. Mostly because Swimming, diving and athletics are popular globally and sports most people can take up.
Now imagine if China took over the IOC and increased the diving events from 8 to 29.
@@_magnifyChina took 8/8 golds in diving. The US took 8/29 golds in swimming.
It’s not really comparable due to the US not being one sided dominant in swimming and because swimming is among the most popular sports in the entire world and much easier for people to become pro in, much more so than diving.
Unusually bad year for US swimming, at the previous two Olympics we got 16/29, which is a significant advantage in the medal count. I also disagree that swimming is an accessible sport, Olympic lap pools are inherently multimillion dollar facilities.
@@_magnify It’s true that Olympic 50 meter swimming pools are expensive, but most people start training in much more accessible 25 meter swimming pools at local swimming pools and gym facilities which are extremely common - and such swimming facilities are basically a staple in every European, post soviet, East Asian, Australian and somewhat wealthier South American/African small towns etc - with large 50 meter facilities in every big to mid size city in those middle to high income countries. Swimming knowledge and swimming as a form of exercise is a public good that most countries and governments are promoting for the general public, so swimming facilities isn’t useless vanity projects aimed at promoting Olympic medals and elite athletes - they serve the community and is a place for exercise and leisure in many places and used by lots of regular people everyday. Not just rich people in rich countries and they are easy to find in every town and city in some shape - usually with local swimming clubs. So it’s not in any way designed to or only benefitting American Olympics performances due to advantages, and it’s not anywhere close to as one sided as diving and table tennis for China where they essentially take 13/13 or 12/13 gold medals every single year for these 2 Chinese dominated sports combined.
China seems to have loads of top notch Olympic swimming and diving centers due to their Olympic success in diving and increasingly good swimming performances every single Olympics, so I suggest China to start investing more in swimming in order to cash in on those medals and dethrone America in 2028 at home soil.
@@Fluxwuxyea, its pretty funny to complain about needing a 25 meter swimming pool thats in basically most towns and the counter-example is a sport that requires each player to have a horse...
As a Canadian, I am still salty that Rissia somehow claimed hockey before we did
How many Chinese gold medals came from table tennis or diving though…
there are 5 table tennis events, imagine if there were 29.
@@_magnifyUS only won 8 gold from swimming out of 29 and dude is still complaining 🤣We won medal in ⚽ rugby basketball volleyball cycling fencing and many
@@_magnifyDo you genuinely not see a difference between table tennis and swimming?
Table tennis is a game with rules. Swimming is just a mode of movement. Its no different from track. Hence why you can have multiple swimming events, same as you have multiple track events.
There are 23 track and field events, should we cut that down as well? @@_magnify
Olympics should have a white knight fencing. You would win everytime ⚔️
Alright let’s add 29 ping pong events.
@@_magnifythere are only 2 basketball events whereas there are 7 ping pong ..I see it favour china very much ..
They should include an edgy competition so you can finally win something
fun fact: one of the fencing judges (who’s european of course) blatantly and openly favors their own country.
It’s because nobody outside of those places play those. People in a lot of countries play volleyball, basketball, etc
I swore never to be a patron of those dratted olympics until they included a buzkashi tournament.
Many Olympic events didn’t exist in the past as well? What’s the point of that sentence?
150 years ago, there were no Olympic events, so its an invitation to think about how we ended up with the ones we have now.
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@@_magnifyor...just look it up. I would invite people to do their own research.
Is he telling us that wealthier countries shouldn’t use their money to build large swimming facilities to train their athletes.
He just wants to seem edgy by hating his country
American hating propaganda 😂 nothing special as usual
and this statement comin from non American, I don't know why many American hate their own country! while many of foreigners wanna be American citizens
please for those who hate America as American, get out from that country so you can make space for those who seek opportunities in your country
Hating America is probably a trend in social media... Which is stupid in my opinion
He is just saying the US did what the US is famous for doing: rigging to win
@@alclay8689Also kind of forgets about the Soviet advantage during the Cold war, not to mention that having one medal in Pato or sumo won't change the medal count much. Why not ban all the categories in boxing or wrestling or gymnastics then to deny Uzbekistan (which won pretty much all its medals in one sport) and Bulgaria their advantage.😂 Also swimming medals are won by a lot of countries. Ergo, the USA did not win 40 golds on paper, it did win 40 medals.😂
I dont begrudge having lots of events for swimming because if you are going to include it at all you gotta make use of that pool, alot of them are built specifically for the games. Building a whole Olympic standard swimming pool for a couple of events is just wasteful 😂
interesting perspective.
I think the same applies for athletics too.
A lot of facilities aren't used after the Olympics. They are just left to rot after the events.
They built a skatepark for 2 action sports while at least 3 others would love some attention.
also hes wrong im an aussie and we added all the backstroke events when we held the games- more of an unfair advantage as we are no offence the GOAT of swimming-look at population vs swimming gold medal winners
@@ExampleName-j2nso much greatness at swimming that you had a prime minister vanish mid-swim
Thank you for mentioning Bangladesh. As almost no one mentions it in any sport kinda event (except cricket). Hadodo us really fun to watch. There are others sports too. (I am sorry if I couldnt explain it properly)