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#25 (and last sport in the bottom quarter)













Sailing

Because I've always thought of sailing as a pasttime, a recreational activity for rich people, I have trouble accepting it as a sport I find aquatic sports pretty kick-ass usually, but sailing just doesn't do anything for me. It must also be a pretty difficult sport to watch. One cool tidbit: Israel's sailor Gal Fridman, who won Israel's first ever Olympic Gold in Athens.

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Modern Pentathlon

On paper, this sport should be pretty badass, given that it essentially consists of 5 sports put into one : shooting, fencing, running, swimming and equestrian. Someone who is a fast swimmer and runner, a skillful rider, a great fencer and a precise shooter is definitely someone to respect. On second thought, however, who the hell decides to become a pentathlete? Probably not a top swimmer, a top fencer, or a top rider. I mean, this sport has a bit of a "Jack of all trades and master of none" feel to it, which is definitely not cool. It really seems as if they put together a bunch of random, unrelated sports without an unifying common theme (unlike for triathlon, where the common link is endurance) and in the end, no one gives a damn about pentathlon. (Well, I guess in the beginning, these 5 events could be used to determine who could be the best soldier?)

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Field Hockey

Field hockey is a cheap version of the best pro sport evah, ice hockey Seriously, it seems pretty boring, and if it wasn't for the fact that I've experience live the crappiness of water-polo and am willing to give field hockey the benefit of doubt, this would rank below water-polo for sure.

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Cycling

Of the three types of cycling, I find two extremely boring (Mountain biking and road cycling). I do find track cycling moderately interesting and find it nice to watch. The other 2, not at all.