How this was in the Olympics and karate isnt is hard to understand.
Knowing olympics, it’ll be yet another sport where it’s all men on men / women on women, separated by weight class.
Karate isn’t in the Olympics because they can’t agree on rules and by extension have one rule making body.
This person undeservingly getting a spot on stage is not representative of the sport. But surely you wouldn’t be commenting on the validity of a sport after seeing only one person do it because then you would be susceptible to being wildly misinformed
I wouldn’t. Like many other sports, bboying (which I use because it a dumb AF moniker) is totally subjective for scoring, and as someone who has done a LOT of karate, gymnastics, and ballroom dance, it seems like all of those should have been included first.
It’s not totally subjective, because they define a way to measure an athletes performance objectively. It’s also a bit ironic because gymnastics could also be quite subjective too. Ultimately the judges and the athletes are aware of how everything is being scored, and the athletes plan their routines around how highly they can score on this rubric.
This is not representative of the rest of the event. The athleticism the real competitors were doing was incredible. It’s closer to an improvised, artistic version of a gymnastics floor routine than this bullshit.
This is all I have seen of it. Being a cord cutter since the last Olympics, I’m not sure where to watch any of it.
YouTube, for a start.
