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Is Tetris the next Olympic event?

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    Unusual games of the past raise questions about future contests

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Well the Olympic Games celebrate the best of human achievement and while some sports seem totally appropriate others.

Not so much.

Trace Gallagher has some examples Trace.

The -- of the Summer Olympics have 25 core sports negative three floating sports they -- and -- load out take a look at some of these floaters over the years one you mentioned earlier I know you love this solo synchronized.

Swimming.

But you -- -- -- synchronize with maybe it's a left and the right hand but there's no others who over the pool.

Sculpture.

Was -- past Olympic event how's that grab you right that's for the fans of solo synchronized swimming.

There was motor boating back in the day they took it out -- the top speeds back in the day were only nineteen miles per hour so not exactly riveting.

Tug of war.

They took it out because the day of live television they took six or seven hours of Tug -- war.

And -- -- about life pigeon shooting this is eighty years before Peta was around the pigeon shooting ended.

Pistol building was one -- -- they ran at a contestants there and town planning.

Was glad thank compared -- I'm planning apparently the zoning commission was that I was using steroids that they took that one out.

That was the last one and here's the thing the future of this could be could be crazy dollar no I was gonna -- ago.

This is now.

They're talking about tetris.

As one of the -- mega talent -- And yeah they are treacherous as in the future again not only that but they're talking about star craft.

And league of legends video games being used in this to go along with rugby -- the way and golf which is in 2016.

Video games in May be the 2020s.

Olympics 124.

Can you believe that.

I've got to always got to submit to the IOC and say hey I want this then there.

And if the majority say it's and it's and may be just as a demonstration sport at first but then it could become one of those three floaters.

We talked about at the beginning.

The only one that's -- -- -- that's gonna make badminton look real never -- -- billboard yesterday saying not everything -- -- analytics part issue like that didn't.

I think that it look at this any day.

And the.

And seventeen got in trouble for trying to throw the matches right so who who would throw -- --

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