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Taro Toporific wrote:Japanese professor pushes for Hide and Seek at the Olympics
The Telegraph | 05 Sep 2013 | by Julian Ryall
At 64, Yasuo Hazaki admits he may no longer have the speed of an Olympic athlete, but guile is as important an attribute in his chosen sport - competitive hide-and-seek - and he is lobbying for it be included in the 2020 Games.
Prof. Hazaki set up the Japan Hide-and-Seek Promotion Committee in 2010 and the organisation has around 1,000 members across the country...more...
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Screwed-down Hairdo wrote:No fair. The Japanese already have their own sport, judo, that nobody else does and so ensures they get a big bag of medals each Games.
Coligny wrote:Screwed-down Hairdo wrote:No fair. The Japanese already have their own sport, judo, that nobody else does and so ensures they get a big bag of medals each Games.
You sure ?
Screwed-down Hairdo wrote:No fair. The Japanese already have their own sport, judo, that nobody else does and so ensures they get a big bag of medals each Games. . . .
Isle of View wrote:Screwed-down Hairdo wrote:No fair. The Japanese already have their own sport, judo, that nobody else does and so ensures they get a big bag of medals each Games. . . .
The time when Japan dominated Judo has long passed.
Even at the Tokyo Olympics 1964, the heavy weight final was between Isao Inokuma and the Canadian Doug Rogers.
Russell wrote:Isle of View wrote:Screwed-down Hairdo wrote:No fair. The Japanese already have their own sport, judo, that nobody else does and so ensures they get a big bag of medals each Games. . . .
The time when Japan dominated Judo has long passed.
Even at the Tokyo Olympics 1964, the heavy weight final was between Isao Inokuma and the Canadian Doug Rogers.
..., which was won by Inokuma.
Better example: Anton Geesink, who won Gold at the 1964 Olympics in the open weight division.
Russell wrote:Isle of View wrote:Screwed-down Hairdo wrote:No fair. The Japanese already have their own sport, judo, that nobody else does and so ensures they get a big bag of medals each Games. . . .
The time when Japan dominated Judo has long passed.
Even at the Tokyo Olympics 1964, the heavy weight final was between Isao Inokuma and the Canadian Doug Rogers.
..., which was won by Inokuma.
Screwed-down Hairdo wrote:They are still anomalies. Judo may well be a global sport in the same way a World Series can be played by teams from the same cuntry (there is one team in another cuntry, but they don't make the World Series anyway...).
Actually, I agree judo may be a global sport, but the bulk of the medals are still won by Japan, which has the sport in the Olympics because it supplies lots of sponsors,
Screwed-down Hairdo wrote:the same way the Koreans got taekwondo
Screwed-down Hairdo wrote:and women get things like synchronized swimming, rhythmic gymnastics and figure skating recognized as sports.
Samurai_Jerk wrote:Can we just go ahead and bring back pankration?
Taro Toporific wrote:I got "excused" from the Colorado Springs Olympic wrestling camp in 1971~72 because my opponents kept getting injured.
Isle of View wrote:2012 Summer Olympics: Judo medal tables
Japan = 7 medals = top medal winner (joint)Screwed-down Hairdo wrote:the same way the Koreans got taekwondo
2012 Summer Olympics: Taekwondo medal tables
Screwed-down Hairdo wrote:Isle of View wrote:2012 Summer Olympics: Judo medal tables
Japan = 7 medals = top medal winner (joint)
Screwed-down Hairdo wrote:the same way the Koreans got taekwondoIsle of View wrote:2012 Summer Olympics: Taekwondo medal tables
South Korea = 2 medals = second top medal winner (joint)
Screwed-down Hairdo wrote:and women get things like synchronized swimming, rhythmic gymnastics and figure skating recognized as sports.
My implication was not that the IOC is catering to a minority, I was saying that it deliberately included non-sporting events appealing to women because it wanted to screw them out of their hard-earned, too.
Isle of View wrote:Besides inventing a new math, you're now also the arbiter of what is and is not a sport.
Have you informed the IOC yet?
Taro Toporific wrote:Japanese professor pushes for Hide and Seek at the Olympics
The Telegraph | 05 Sep 2013 | by Julian Ryall
reddit.com/r/japan wrote:British journalist interviews head of Japanese National Onigokko Association. Translates it into hide-and-seek. Global confusion ensues. (self.japan)
reddit.com/r/japan 2013Sept12 by fall_ark
This is a sad story that needs to be told. Here's the gist of it.
Professor Yasuo Hazaki (羽崎泰男) is the head of Japan's Onigokko Association. A professor specializing in children's sports and development, he devotes himself to the promotion of a standardized form of the game Onigokko(鬼ごっこ), the Japanese equivalent of the simple game Tag.
A few days ago, just as Tokyo had landed the 2020 Olympics bid, Hazaki had an interview with a journalist from the British newspaper The Daily Telegraph to speak about his dreams and visions of seeing Onigokko as an Olympic event.
The news article translates "Onigokko" into "Hide-and-seek".
Media around the world quickly picked up this outrageous story...
...The ridiculous notion that Japanese people can play hide-and-seek on a 65ft x 65ft pitch leads to easy jokes of Ninjitsu and other things...
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wagyl wrote:I can't say that I understand what constitutes an Olympic sport worthy of ridicule or not. There has beentug of war and motor boatracing
wagyl wrote:I can't say that I understand what constitutes an Olympic sport worthy of ridicule or not. There has beentug of war and motor boatracing
Gulshan cafe attack: Sole Japanese survivor says he hid behind bushes
bdnews24.com (Bangladesh) 2016/07/14
Taro Toporific wrote:wagyl wrote:I can't say that I understand what constitutes an Olympic sport worthy of ridicule or not. There has beentug of war and motor boatracing
Here's a good candidate for the Team Japan's captain for Olympic Hide-and-Seek...
Gulshan cafe attack: Sole Japanese survivor says he hid behind bushes
bdnews24.com (Bangladesh) 2016/07/14
Russell wrote:Taro Toporific wrote:wagyl wrote:I can't say that I understand what constitutes an Olympic sport worthy of ridicule or not. There has beentug of war and motor boatracing
Here's a good candidate for the Team Japan's captain for Olympic Hide-and-Seek...
Gulshan cafe attack: Sole Japanese survivor says he hid behind bushes
bdnews24.com (Bangladesh) 2016/07/14
Not only that, but he hid there for 12 freaking hours.
That requires a cool head, to keep quiet...
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