Fishing to became an Olympic Sport?

[gregy]

Anybody else see this? Fishing an Olympic Sport.

 

 

[Horton]

Massive long link PANDA

[gregy]

@horton Sorry fixed it.

[Horton]

Thanks

[Than_Bogan]

Wow, that could actually happen. Japanese are hugely into bass fishing. All throughout Tokyo you can see the ancient carp and the more-recently-introduced largemouth bass hanging out in a variety of aqueducts, ponds, etc. Some quite large.

 

If anyone gives a damn about waterskiing going into the Olympics someday (not sure I do), I think you should be in favor of this. Cracks open the door for a sport in which a motor assists the ... um ... "athlete."

[gregy]

@Than_Bogan Good point.

[RazorRoss3]

I mentioned something to that extent in another post. Can only name so many, personally zero, Olympic sports that are motor assisted unless you count the chair lifts in downhill. Having boats in the Olympics at all maybe doesn't open the door but at least unlocks it.

[MISkier]

What would the Olympic training for fishing entail? Drinking beer and driving a 300 HP bass boat through a 40 foot wide canal at 70 mph?

[thager]

Also need the ability to park in a slalom course so as to be most obtrusive to any concerned and not know it.

[Roger]

Motors are allowed if they are not used in the actual competition. IE: there is a bicycle sport where a motorcycle pulls the bikes to speed and then drops out for the actual competition. Skydiving was (briefly) in the Olympics. The plane took them to altitude, but the competition was in free fall after exiting the plane. I've never seen anyone Bass fish while under power (well maybe if they got drunk enough).

[Than_Bogan]

Fishing with the gasoline engine on is illegal in most bass tournaments. (Or at least it was 25 years ago; probably still is.) However, I still think it's pretty fundamentally different than what exists currently in the Olypmics, because the competitor himself drives the boat. Finding fish is a big part of tournament success, and the so the competitor's use of the engine greatly influences the final outcome. (Unlike in waterskiing, btw.)

[ozski]

Put the skiers, the rowers and the fishermen on the same lake at the same time, then you have a serious Olympic sporting event..

[Ralph Lee]

@ozski That might actually get me to watch an Olympic event!

[Than_Bogan]

@Mark_Matis HAH! Trolling! Took me a minute...

[Roger]

If they're allowed to use the engine to do the fish finding, then the sport should not be allowed in the Olympics IMO. Either allow power or don't...

[gregy]

There's a lot $$$ behind fishing. Tournaments have pots of hundreds of thousands even millions.

[Edbrazil]

If fishing gets in, then in the true spirit of the Olympics, the only boats allowed should be

dugout and birch bark canoes. And, bamboo fishing poles.

Water skiing has spent enough $$ sucking up to the IOC. Too bad, as our sport could

provide thrills similar to the Alpine Skiing events. Summer Olympics tend to be a good

bit ho-hum, although the bike road races in Rio were good Demo Derby at times.

[Zman]

Fishing in the Olympics? Cool! Can't wait to grab some cold beers, a chair and watch that on TV all day!

Please, shoot me!

[aupatking]

@thager. They know. I'm sure they know

[BrennanKMN]

I'd rather see Formula 1 or something of that nature in the Olympics before Fishing.

[Ralph Lee]

I might be old school but I'll watch fishing any day over men running and jumping around in thier revealing underpants. Just can't do it.

[Mateo_Vargas]

What about all the plumbers crack when they are picking up the fish?

[Zman]

Maybe World Series of Poker will be next? If ESPN thinks it is a sport, maybe Olympics will too!?!?

Hey, probably even be some of the same athletes.....

[Than_Bogan]

I would watch Olympic Bass Fishing and Olympic Poker and Olympic Waterskiing, but something tells me I'm the only one! :)

[DaveD]

@Than_Bogan You would break away from watching synchronized swimming and diving?

[klindy]

While I'd agree with @Than_Bogan about being supportive for new sports being added to the Olympics, to the best of my knowledge there are a finite number of sports allowed and one must be eliminated for a new one to replace it. Here is a link to an article about how sports are selected.

[klindy]

While I'd agree with @Than_Bogan about being supportive for new sports being added to the Olympics, to the best of my knowledge there are a finite number of sports allowed and one must be eliminated for a new one to replace it. Here is a link to an article

[klindy]

While I'd agree with @Than_Bogan about being supportive for new sports being added to the Olympics, to the best of my knowledge there are a finite number of sports allowed and one must be eliminated for a new one to replace it. Here is a link to an article

[klindy]

While I'd agree with @Than_Bogan about being supportive for new sports being added to the Olympics, to the best of my knowledge there are a finite number of sports allowed and one must be eliminated for a new one to replace it. Here is a link to an article