I wouldn’t, but we’re different people. I guess if she wants to continue competing at the Olympics she’ll have to.

I assumed it was going to be like a gymnastics floor exercise, with each contestant dancing for 3-4 minutes to their own mix of tracks. At least that’s what made sense to me.

That would be a good way to go about it. Give them all a list for types of tricks required and see what they can come up with. I get that it’s not what they do in clubs and on the street, but it’s the Olympics. If it’s a sport and not just art then we have to make it accessible for non-fans to understand and for judges to have some scoring to back up their decisions.

Flag football is very popular among the youth now. Football is the most popular sport here but there’s not a lot of international investment, hardly any women play even in the US, and there’s not enough time for recovery from a full contact game. Flag football is played outside the US. This is the best method to share America’s favorite sport for the restrictions of a 2 week international tournament.

I have a lot of hope for Lacrosse 6s to be enjoyable like rugby 7s.

Don’t forget cricket, squash, and baseball/softball.

Baseball/softball are always optional. Cricket and Lacrosse used to be in the Games way back when.

Only squash and flag football are entirely new test sports.

I’m not opposed to it, but they need to make it more sport like and lose the spontaneity for it to work well.

We need compulsory trick types, clear score values, executions scores, etc…

This is the same battle that figure skating has with art. There’s a reason you can find exhibition skaters that people love that aren’t competitive.