As a former thrower, I've just got to say that asking the throwers to go nude is a Very Bad Idea. They're a really fun crowd and great people, but they're just not, um, aesthetically pleasing for the most part, and a little bit of clothing helps a lot to hide the extra eight fat rolls on the back of shot put dude's back.

"Criquet is a very popular game in Paki, India, some of england, some of AUS, NZ, but it's hardly a world game, and it doesn't even rank near to hockey (which is just under curling in North America) as far as participation or viewship is concerned. "

Modern MMA would be a good addition to the olympics. Popular all over the world; Asia, Europe, N.America, S.America, Australia, even Africa (to a lesser extent).

Maybe if they knew that they would be performing in the nude, they would approach their diet/training regimen in a new way.

Unreal. I will probably waste my entire day on this thread defending my opinion and not change a single mind, but at least I tried.

Yes, there is a stereotype of cubicle working, McDonald's eating, Five Sport focused, American that exist. But it is not the majority. It's just the easy target that won't get on this forum to defend themselves or travel to Europe except to go to Euro Disney.

Why do these people suck at life because they don't like watching triathlon, or the networks won't carry it because the masses won't watch it. I race and have raced for a long time. But I don't want to watch it on TV ever. Just like I don't like watching men's rec league softball on tv. Age group racing is the same as softball. Professional is less engaging that this even. I'm a professional, and he's a professional but we would never race because I don't race that month, and he won't race this month, and he goes long, I go short, and my sponsors won't pay for me to go to NY this week and my VW won't make it cross country. Try to market that to the masses. That is our situation.

I would never watch NASCAR even if I was flown to Florida, and put in the seat next to Dale Earnhart. But those fans fill tracks of 200,000 every weekend. If this debate is about passion, guess what? NASCAR wins over F-1 and Soccer and ranks up there with American football (pro and college).

The United States is so passionate about our top five, big deal. And guess what's more? We have more kids playing soccer than anywhere else in the world. Guess what's else? We have hundreds of cities like Pacific Beach, Boulder, Ann Arbor, Portland, that have fit people working out every weekend. And when they go to dinner or the bar that night after their work out, they don't have to deal with fat unhealthy smokers like you do in every other country outside of the US.