Olympic Committee Says Esports Are Real Sports, Gamers Are Now As Athletic As Skiers

Where do I post my Shredsauce edit to get on the team?

THANOSDOGFARTTrue, there used to be a shooting person in my gym and he would walk in with a target, take out his laser shooting gun and spend 2 hours trying to be accurate. Literally no physical demand, it’s as much as a sport as juggling or water bottle flipping.

Juggling takes far more exertion than air pistols or whatever. at least you have to have dynamic balance and deal with a lot of moving distractions...

as far as shooting events in the olympics, Biathlon is the only one that's worth anything because they have to shoot a gun accurately from a fair distance after huffing and puffing on cross country skis and working up quite a sweat and a heavy heartrate - which makes the shooting accuracy that much more impressive when they nail their targets. However, all these shooting events where they just stand there at a super chill resting heartrate and use some gun that looks like it was put together by a formula 1 team or some ridiculous archery contraption... they're all so lame.

You know what I want to see in the olympics? fuckin laser tag.. or paintball.. or some sort of event where you have to run and shoot and actually show some ninja stealth and athleticism... that would be fucking COOL..

DingoSeanJuggling takes far more exertion than air pistols or whatever. at least you have to have dynamic balance and deal with a lot of moving distractions...

as far as shooting events in the olympics, Biathlon is the only one that's worth anything because they have to shoot a gun accurately from a fair distance after huffing and puffing on cross country skis and working up quite a sweat and a heavy heartrate - which makes the shooting accuracy that much more impressive when they nail their targets. However, all these shooting events where they just stand there at a super chill resting heartrate and use some gun that looks like it was put together by a formula 1 team or some ridiculous archery contraption... they're all so lame.

You know what I want to see in the olympics? fuckin laser tag.. or paintball.. or some sort of event where you have to run and shoot and actually show some ninja stealth and athleticism... that would be fucking COOL..

Bring competition tag to the olympicshttps://www.newschoolers.com/videos/watch/997429/WCT-3---Match-4---The-Boys-v-Ape-Escape

DingoSeanTo be fair, if anyone's ever seen precision shooting in the olympics, that takes about as little skill as it takes to headshot people in an FPS...

Literally all you gotta do is spend a shitload of money on an insanely accurate air gun. Might as well spend that money on some crazy gaming computer at that point...



What im saying is neither should be in the olympics as they're both dumb as fuck and a waste of time.

dont downplay the difficulty of shooting, especially like pistols and shit. Have you ever tried to keep that shit steady on a 50m target? It's about the gear to an extent (if ur gun is shitty it wont be accurate) but at a certain point it just becomes about the skill.

I see no reason coco grande here wouldn’t be considered as athletic and stand with the likes of THall, Andri spaghetti, Jesper tjader, e Heath....

Why do people care about stupid things like this that in no way effect their life?

Everyone knows that skiing is not a sport and none of us are athletes. Leave that delusion to the fucks on tgr, now watch me hit this bowl and get nasty in the kiddie park.

shinbangclandont downplay the difficulty of shooting, especially like pistols and shit. Have you ever tried to keep that shit steady on a 50m target? It's about the gear to an extent (if ur gun is shitty it wont be accurate) but at a certain point it just becomes about the skill.

You could be fat as fuck but have one arm that can be held steady. That's a skill, not an athletic trait.

Show me someone doing that while also having to run around doing flips and shit while stiff explodes around them like in the matrix and I'm sold...

Magnus Carlson.. 10 time olympic gold medalist

DingoSeanYou could be fat as fuck but have one arm that can be held steady. That's a skill, not an athletic trait.

Show me someone doing that while also having to run around doing flips and shit while stiff explodes around them like in the matrix and I'm sold...

Fair enough. If olympics is about athleticism, though, not sure why we have shooting or archery or curling or any of the sports in which you can be obese and still do well.

shinbangclanFair enough. If olympics is about athleticism, though, not sure why we have shooting or archery or curling or any of the sports in which you can be obese and still do well.

Strangely enough, it seems curling athletes seriously work out haha. Lots of squats and shuffles so they have a lot of control of themselves while traversing the ice.

But yeah, Archery used to be a lot more work for the athlete. Controlling a big giant longbow with a ton of power behind it is not something one can do casually. But now, the bows and pistols are basically effortless and you just have to practice your motor skills and breathing...

But yeah, your question is still valid.

Now, if they had to do curling while also shooting guns or hunting bows? that would be fuckin cool

All of these sports you guys are complaining about are more objective than skiing though. There's clear winners in things like archery (closest to the bullseye), curling (best score), and honestly, most video games (best score). Whereas skiing requires judging by another person which renders it subjective and we can argue about who was best. The Olympics used to be about the farthest, fastest, etc, but all of these judged sports can never have a clear winner because there is no best, it's just opinion. It's not about being athletic, it's about being the objectively best person at something.

a_pla5tic_bagAll of these sports you guys are complaining about are more objective than skiing though. There's clear winners in things like archery (closest to the bullseye), curling (best score), and honestly, most video games (best score). Whereas skiing requires judging by another person which renders it subjective and we can argue about who was best. The Olympics used to be about the farthest, fastest, etc, but all of these judged sports can never have a clear winner because there is no best, it's just opinion. It's not about being athletic, it's about being the objectively best person at something.

I'll be the first to say that I hate when sports come down to judgery and didn't really want our version of skiing to be placed into the olympics.