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gab13by13

(25,302 posts)
Thu Aug 1, 2024, 02:55 PM Aug 2024

Do We Really Need 3 ON 3 Basketball In The Olympics

I like basketball, but they cut out 4 weight classes for wrestling. Wrestling was an original sport in the Olympics.

We only have 6 weight classes now - 4 wrestlers belong to the Nittany Lion Wrestling Club, talking freestyle wrestling. Little plug for Penn State.

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Do We Really Need 3 ON 3 Basketball In The Olympics (Original Post) gab13by13 Aug 2024 OP
Whether you like it or not, it's there Jilly_in_VA Aug 2024 #1
Break dancing kind of surprised me displacedvermoter Aug 2024 #2
Tell the wrestlers to enter the Judo competition Ponietz Aug 2024 #3
I really don't think they cut the number of weight divisions in wrestling to accommodate 3x3 basketball. Voltaire2 Aug 2024 #4
Sign of the times. The Big 3 League is growing in popularity. They even have their games on tv. tulipsandroses Aug 2024 #5
We don't REALLY need any of it. RockRaven Aug 2024 #6
It's just become another circus. Wonder Why Aug 2024 #9
No. obnoxiousdrunk Aug 2024 #7
My pet peeve snowybirdie Aug 2024 #8

Jilly_in_VA

(10,991 posts)
1. Whether you like it or not, it's there
Thu Aug 1, 2024, 03:01 PM
Aug 2024

3 x 3 is a different sport from full court basketball. It's more like driveway basketball than it is the full court game. If you can't appreciate that, then so be it.

I don't much care for wrestling, but that"s me. They still have Greco-Roman wrestling, which is the original thing, if you want to be petty about it.

I'd rather cut out the equestrian events, especially dressage. Silly.

Ponietz

(3,322 posts)
3. Tell the wrestlers to enter the Judo competition
Thu Aug 1, 2024, 03:05 PM
Aug 2024

Looks soft, but not as soft as 3v3 hoops or surfing.

The gymnasts could enter Breakdancing and clean up.

Waiting to hear about the new synchronized BMX event.

Does it still have the ribbon twirlers?

Voltaire2

(14,807 posts)
4. I really don't think they cut the number of weight divisions in wrestling to accommodate 3x3 basketball.
Thu Aug 1, 2024, 03:06 PM
Aug 2024

So I really don't understand what the connection is between these events.

tulipsandroses

(6,233 posts)
5. Sign of the times. The Big 3 League is growing in popularity. They even have their games on tv.
Thu Aug 1, 2024, 03:08 PM
Aug 2024

When it was just launched, I didn't think it would last but I was wrong. They are taking it internationally.

RockRaven

(16,453 posts)
6. We don't REALLY need any of it.
Thu Aug 1, 2024, 03:08 PM
Aug 2024

And all of it is arbitrary to varying degrees. It is fine not to care for some of it, or to wish it were different. But there is no correct way for it to be.

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