Cs 137 HIDE AND SEEK for the Tokyo Olympics?

[Taro Toporific]

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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[IparryU]

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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my boss circulated this around the office today... what a fucking joke.

[Screwed-down Hairdo]

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. And these cunts are fucken great at hide-and-seek.
(Actually, the Taiwanese are even better, but that's a bit of a dirty little secret most of the world wants to forget about, so let's just pretend it didn't happen....)

[Coligny]

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 ?

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[Screwed-down Hairdo]

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 ?

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French do kancho, too?

[Taro Toporific]

Tokyo 1964 Olympics: Japan was powering up. Tokyo 2020 Olympics will be the most radiant ever! A real blast!
~ via Jake Adelstein (@jakeadelstein) September 8, 2013

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Via twitter.com/DailyGomiuri...

[Isle of View]

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.

Judo is now an international sport with global participation.

[Russell]

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.

[Isle of View]

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.

Quite right.

[Mike Oxlong]

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.

I believe that was by judge's decision, kinda like figure skating...

[Screwed-down Hairdo]

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, the same way the Koreans got taekwondo and women get things like synchronized swimming, rhythmic gymnastics and figure skating recognized as sports.

[Isle of View]

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,

2012 Summer Olympics: Judo medal tables

the same way the Koreans got taekwondo

2012 Summer Olympics: Taekwondo medal tables

and women get things like synchronized swimming, rhythmic gymnastics and figure skating recognized as sports.

Yeah, it is a shame, is it not, how the IOC caters to this minority.

Frankly, I'd rather watch rhythmic gymnastics than, say, American football, where a bunch of steroidillas hold overly long meetings in the middle of an otherwise perfectly good field.

At least the IOC was forced to restore wrestling as an Olympic sport.

[Samurai_Jerk]

Can we just go ahead and bring back pankration?

[Taro Toporific]

Can we just go ahead and bring back pankration?

Ple-e-e-ase!*

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*I got "excused" from the Colorado Springs Olympic wrestling camp in 1971~72 because my opponents kept getting injured.

[Isle of View]

The IOC should accept UFC as an Olympic sport.

Close enough to pankration and more interesting in terms of technique.

[Isle of View]

I got "excused" from the Colorado Springs Olympic wrestling camp in 1971~72 because my opponents kept getting injured.

From this fragment, it sounds like the coaches made the right decision: that you were not able to learn how to wrestle properly.

In Judo, such character types were assigned supplemental training with one of the senior black belts.
After such training, these characters were always happy to "excuse" themselves and depart on their own.
Relieved to leave injury-free, aside from their deflated egos, I'll note.

[pallidknight]

[Screwed-down Hairdo]

2012 Summer Olympics: Judo medal tables
Japan = 7 medals = top medal winner (joint)

the same way the Koreans got taekwondo

2012 Summer Olympics: Taekwondo medal tables

South Korea = 2 medals = second top medal winner (joint)
[quote="Screwed-down Hairdo"]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.

Now traditional wrestling has returned, I'm also for the return of other traditions like competitors being naked (I'll make exceptions for those European discuss chuckers, Chinese female swimmers, weightlifters and wrestlers), the 1904 St. Louis Darkie Games and saluting Der Fuhrer upon winning a medal the way Japanese kids still do for the national sporting competition held each year as they make pledges for good sportsmanship.

[Isle of View]

2012 Summer Olympics: Judo medal tables
Japan = 7 medals = top medal winner (joint)

7 out of a possible 56 medals: 12.5% of the total medal count.

the same way the Koreans got taekwondo

2012 Summer Olympics: Taekwondo medal tables

South Korea = 2 medals = second top medal winner (joint)

2 out of a possible 32 medals: 6.25% of the total medal count.

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.

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?

[Coligny]

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?

The guy is honorary french, give him a break. Now let me guess, Xbox live is down again ?

[Samurai_Jerk]

SDH, give it up. You don't know wtf you're talking about when it comes to judo and apparently can't read the tables in Wikipedia.

[Taro Toporific]

Japanese professor pushes for Hide and Seek at the Olympics
The Telegraph | 05 Sep 2013 | by Julian Ryall

Oops. It was Olympic game of Tag, not "hide and seek."

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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[Russell]

And playing tag is less ridiculous as an Olympic sport?!?

[wagyl]

I can't say that I understand what constitutes an Olympic sport worthy of ridicule or not. There has been tug of war and motor boat racing in the past. And then there was the cultural side to the Olympics, abandoned only because the various competitors were deemed to not be amateurs.

[matsuki]

I can't say that I understand what constitutes an Olympic sport worthy of ridicule or not. There has beentug of war and motor boat racing

I'd definitely make a run for gold...

[Taro Toporific]

I can't say that I understand what constitutes an Olympic sport worthy of ridicule or not. There has beentug of war and motor boat racing

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

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[Russell]

I can't say that I understand what constitutes an Olympic sport worthy of ridicule or not. There has beentug of war and motor boat racing

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

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Not only that, but he hid there for 12 freaking hours.

That requires a cool head, to keep quiet...

[Coligny]

I can't say that I understand what constitutes an Olympic sport worthy of ridicule or not. There has beentug of war and motor boat racing

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

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Not only that, but he hid there for 12 freaking hours.

That requires a cool head, to keep quiet...

FUCKING AMATEUR
is this how low the standards have become ?

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