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Post by Bilal Kreidieh on Jan 21, 2011 8:40:49 GMT -5
Do you guys think arm wrestling will ever be an Olympic sport?
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Post by Hugh Brodie on Jan 21, 2011 16:49:27 GMT -5
Can it happen? I doubt it. I think the last thing the Olympics want is another weight-division sport (not to mention both left and right categories - as well as male and female), and another several dozen medals to hand out.
If we look at boxing: the 2008 Beijing Olympics had a quota set for a maximum of 286 entries in 11 weight classes - a maximum of 1 per country in each weight class. Prior to the Olympics, there were 5 continental qualifying events.
Weightlifting: 170 men in 8 weight classes (and 90 women in 7 classes).
Wrestling (freestyle and Greco-Roman combined): 266 men in 7 weight classes (and 64 women in 4 freestyle classes).
Judo: 228 men; 148 women - both in 7 weight classes.
The only way armwrestling would have any chance at all at the Olympics would be under some sort of team arrangement in which only teams got medals - not individuals. Otherwise - you might see Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan near the top of the overall medal counts. :-)
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Post by Bilal Kreidieh on Jan 21, 2011 16:53:34 GMT -5
Can it happen? I doubt it. I think the last thing the Olympics want is another weight-division sport (not to mention both left and right categories - as well as male and female), and another several dozen medals to hand out. If we look at boxing: the 2008 Beijing Olympics had a quota set for a maximum of 286 entries in 11 weight classes - a maximum of 1 per country in each weight class. Prior to the Olympics, there were 5 continental qualifying events. Weightlifting: 170 men in 8 weight classes (and 90 women in 7 classes). Wrestling (freestyle and Greco-Roman combined): 266 men in 7 weight classes (and 64 women in 4 freestyle classes). Judo: 228 men; 148 women - both in 7 weight classes. The only way armwrestling would have any chance at all at the Olympics would be under some sort of team arrangement in which only teams got medals - not individuals. Otherwise - you might see Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan near the top of the overall medal counts. :-) wow, that is a lot of detail  |
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Post by Heintje Bergeron on Jan 21, 2011 22:28:29 GMT -5
this is my dream!!!
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Post by Bilal Kreidieh on Jan 21, 2011 23:25:06 GMT -5
Do you think it will happen? |
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Post by Chris Macpherson on Jan 22, 2011 23:04:43 GMT -5
I could be wrong but I think that sometime prior to the 90's armwrestling was part of track and field competitions. Atleast I remember as a kid playing this flippin sweet NES game called "track and field" and it featured armwrestling.
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Post by Bilal Kreidieh on Jan 23, 2011 5:11:30 GMT -5
I could be wrong but I think that sometime prior to the 90's armwrestling was part of track and field competitions. Atleast I remember as a kid playing this flippin sweet NES game called "track and field" and it featured armwrestling. really? I did track & field all through the 90s. Late 90s. Did shot-put and middle distance. Must've missed arm wrestling. Would've been awesome to have that. |
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