Do We Really Need 3 ON 3 Basketball In The Olympics

[gab13by13]

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.

[Jilly_in_VA]

1. Whether you like it or not, it's there

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.

[displacedvermoter]

2. Break dancing kind of surprised me

[Ponietz]

3. Tell the wrestlers to enter the Judo competition

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]

4. I really don't think they cut the number of weight divisions in wrestling to accommodate 3x3 basketball.

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

[tulipsandroses]

5. Sign of the times. The Big 3 League is growing in popularity. They even have their games on tv.

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

[RockRaven]

6. We don't REALLY need any of it.

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.

[Wonder Why]

9. It's just become another circus.

[obnoxiousdrunk]

7. No.

It's so boring.

[snowybirdie]

8. My pet peeve

Is millionaire professional golfers in the Olympics. Why?