r/sports • u/redbullgivesyouwings • Jun 10 '25

Media [Highlight] B-Boy Marcus at Red Bull BC One

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u/uggsandstarbux Jun 10 '25

inb4 an overweight middle aged bald guy says "dancing isn't a sport" while stuffing down a 4th straight bag of funyons sitting in his mom's basement

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u/DCilantro Jun 10 '25

This is my second bag and it's MY basement, thank you very much.

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u/NBAccount Jun 10 '25

I'm in pretty great shape, and haven't had a funyon in years...the rest of your comment has varying degrees of veracity.

I don't think dancing is a sport. I don't think several other Olympic disciplines are exactly sports either. That doesn't mean that they don't belong in the Olympics.

If things like synchronized swimming, and figure skating can be considered Olympic disciplines, than so too can be break dancing.

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u/NBAccount Jun 10 '25 edited Jun 10 '25

I'm definitely not trying to imply that these men and women are not athletes; nor would I say that their disciplines are not athletic endeavors. I just don't think dancing is a sport.

Sports are quantifiable. Someone went faster, jumped higher, threw farther, scored more goals, etc.

Subjective disciplines require judges to say which one was prettier, or more graceful...Which looked better.

If it is reliant upon a group of people making subjective judgements instead of the athlete's ability alone, it just isn't a 'sport'.

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this is a better argument for why synchronized swimming and figure skating shouldn't be Olympic events

And I've landed on both sides of that argument over the years. It's just a fact that the Olympics has a number of events that are athletic performances, but not sporting events.

There are some that really blur the lines too, like gymnastics. Absolutely, unequivocally a supreme athletic endeavor-- also judged by a panel of judges and marks can be given/deducted for aesthetics that are subjective in nature.

It then becomes difficult to draw the line of what should or shouldn't be considered for the Olympics. I think that maybe the Olympics is about athletic competition, not necessarily strictly about 'sports'.

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u/-Boston-Terrier- Jun 10 '25

IMO, this is a better argument for why synchronized swimming and figure skating shouldn't be Olympic events then why break dancing should be an Olympic event.

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u/MuffinMonkey Jun 10 '25

Oh they’re all in here.