Competitive eating not a candidate for 2016 Olympics

November 16, 2008 at 9:08 am by ojrifkin · More posts about:Eating and Society

Seven sports (baseball, softball, golf, karate, roller sports, rugby and squash) made their case to be included in the 2016 Olympics. Competitive eating was not among them. Chicago and Tokyo are considered the leading candidates to land the games.

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  1. John said

    November 16, 2008 @ 10:26 am

    Good grief! The Olympics are for PHYSICAL SPORTS!!!

    Eating is not a sport, but a human function. And “competitive eating” is not a sport, but a bastardization of a human function. Since it often involves one of the “seven deadly sins” (gluttony), humans really ought usually to avoid it.

    Despite the name (Olympic “Games”), the Olympics don’t include mere games either (such as bridge, poker, old maid, Monopoly, etc.).

  2. nic"TheIncredibleBulk"fry said

    November 16, 2008 @ 12:57 pm

    and i was getting my hopes up to be an olympian… damn this cruel world (sarcasm)

  3. anonymous said

    November 16, 2008 @ 5:24 pm

    I say lets discuss Pete Murniki , Jill Stoler and Don Lerman. They are far more interesting than the possiblility of competitive eating making it to the olympics which we know will never happen in this lifetime

  4. Tonto said

    November 18, 2008 @ 7:54 pm

    Think about the starving people around the world watching Koby and Joey gorge themselves. No wonder it isn’t being considered.

  5. nic"TheIncredibleBulk"fry said

    November 18, 2008 @ 9:03 pm

    tonto shut your mouth that is the dumbest thing i have ever heard, think about all the fat people around the world and have to watch them athletes compete…. tard its the same argument

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