Trying to remove subjectivity from any human endeavor is a fool's errand.

The founder of the modern Olympics vision was that it be a celebration of art as well.

The society that separates its scholors from its warriors will have its thinking done by cowards and its fighting by fools.

The idea of some kind of "purity" in physical competition is robbing ourselves of the completeness of the human experience IMO.

One thing I didn't learn until this year was that gymnastics is scored two ways. Execution starts at 10.0 and has points deducted for each error. Difficulty starts at zero and increases based on the composition of the required elements, and how they are connected.

Besides, gymnastics is one of the original Olympic sports

Judges sports are ok if the judging can be objective. If the commentators can't explain the difference between an 8.0 and a 9.0 score then it's a problem. Many sports have made changes to address this, which has been beneficial to their sports.

It's also why break dancing was such a bad event. They kept repeating the criteria, but couldn't really explain anything about why a person won or why it was so one sided most of the time.

One could use something like a panel of experts, that could, maybe, hold up their verdicts in an easy understandable format, numbers, perhaps.

The Olympics itself doesn't get judged enough on its destructive impact wherever it goes. Measure that. Also, OP hates ice skating.

And give up Raygunning?

Can’t give up those boys in tights and bikinis! Maybe they should be in the nude again? Actually, the idea of “most graceful” is indeed a competition, so snap.

This take reminds me of the family dinner scene from Whiplash

How do you ensure there is not biase from judges based on their knowledge of the competitor, be it country they are representing, or personal connections, or racial / religious opinion?

So yeah, remove the feels sports and limit the Olympics to reals sports.

So guess we would have to remove things like baseball, fencing, football, boxing, rugby, tennis, karate, basketball, wrestling… basically any opposition sport where a judge has to make subjective determinations of edge cases, such as calling balls/strikes, in/out, off/on-sides or determining whether an act is sufficient to warrant a foul, or whether an infraction or series thereof is egregious enough to warrant an elevated penalty. We can’t have events where officials might be affected by perspective, bias or poor judgment.

So that leaves us left with: races, target sports, feats of prowess (jumping, throwing & weightlifting) and… Golf, I guess. Though, maybe golf counts as a target sport…🤔 With all the time and space freed up from getting rid of all the subjective sports we can add more objective ones, like chess, hot dog eating and cubing.

affected by popularity or politics

You seem to assume that everybody is corrupted. Judges etc

The "Olympic spirit" thinks exactly the opposite.

You should try to think about it this way: Not all of them come from where you come from.

So, @trk@aussie.zone you gonna expound on any of the discussion that systematically disproves every single one of your complaints?

Nah. I knew you wouldn’t. Because you don’t care about logic or reason or scoring or competition. You don’t even give a shit about the Olympics.

All you care about is how your feefees are offended.

Good thing facts don’t care about your feelings.