Should eating a pizza be an Olympic sport? Some people are making a case for it
Olympic sports are considered to be the pinnacle of human athletic achievement.
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The thing is that not everyone is a top level Olympian. Some of us are gifted in other ways. In a world of incredible joblessness and procrastination, it's fair to question that who decides what exactly are Olympic Sports?
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Like it's just a group of people decided which makes it pretty arbitrary.
People have differnet talents which should be rewarded with medals right? Like stuffing yourself with 20 burgers at one point?
Who is to say that requires less effort and perseverance than running a 10K marathon? (Well everyone will, but you get the point right?)
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Some tweeters decided to play disrupters and started tweeting with #MyOlympicSportWouldBe resulting in some good old Twitter snark.
Here are some of the best ones: