Should judged sports really be in the Olympics? This is a questions raising concern in the International Olympic Committee. Although sports like figure skating, gymnastics and skiing are a pleasure to have in the Olympics, many people still question if judging is fair. It is a judges duty to always go with what their head says(which is who did the best performance), than what their heart says (which is to honour their countries athletes) and that may or may not lead to them being a bit more generous towards certain athletes. The IOC was first founded in 1894. Around that time there were only a few events such as boxing, wrestling, running, equestrian events and pentathlon. None of there events really needed judging so I assume that judged sports were brought up in the 1900's.
Many people believe that the idea of the Olympics is to have a peaceful international competition. But including the judging in the games may not be the best choice for the athletes. If the Olympics had no judged events there would probably be less controversy between the countries that have judges from their nationality and countries without any judges participating in the games. Even if we do continue judging events, there will always be a suspicion towards the judges from the losing team. Its not fair when an athlete has spent his/her whole life preparing for that event and after that they are told that they have lost by only a few points. How is an athletes career supposed to depend on a couple of judges?
If the Olympic committee were to take judged sports out of the Olympics there would be lots of protests. There are many judges sports out there, some of which are the only events that matter to some watching the Olympics. Judged events are a big part of the Olympics and stopping them would be extremely disappointing to the viewers and even more to the athletes. Maybe if the judges weren't told which team was competing at that moment, they would sort of go on neutral and focus on the performance only.
My opinion is that there should still be judged events. Because if there wasn't the hard work of some if not most of the athletes would go to waste. I think there should just be more loyal and strict judges. The only way to make sure nothing was going on between the judges and athletes would be to not let the athletes or coaches communicate with any of the judges.
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ReplyDeleteGreat job on your post! You did a really good job with presenting the evidence in your post for both the for and the against paragraphs. Try to avoid starting a sentence with the word because. Try to make sure you use the word question rather than questions if there is only one question being asked. Overall I enjoyed reading your current events post.
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