SPORTS, ANYONE?
- Tilda
- Jun 11
- 3 min read
As our annual Sports Day and Water Day are approaching (yay, so much fun, just awesome!), our staff writer Tilda takes a look at some sports that should be Olympic sports. Here is her report about this (with outsourced photos and lots of research done). Feel free to check out her suggestions - we wonder which sports you would include?
You might also want to check out what it was like during our last year's Sports Day at Bright Horizons:).
Sports That Should Be In The Olympics
All-Star Cheerleading
Cheerleading, a discipline in which participants do a 2 1/2 minute performance, is a competition-oriented activity. Unlike typical school cheerleading, All Star Cheer concentrates on cheer parts and is organized by clubs. Teams are organized into tiers based on their talent level, ranging from novice to elite. All Star rules are scaled based on cheering skill progressions, ensuring that competitors' talents are developmentally appropriate for their age.
(PS: check out our cheerleading team from Bright Horizons on their way to glory:))
Parkour
Parkour is an athletic training discipline or sport in which practitioners (called traceurs) seek to go from one point to another in the quickest and most efficient way possible, without assisting equipment and often completing feats of acrobatics. Parkour has its roots in military obstacle course training and martial arts, and it includes flipping, running, climbing, swinging, vaulting, jumping, plyometrics, rolling, and quadrupedal movement—whatever is appropriate for the situation.
American Football
American football, originating in North America, differs from soccer in that players can touch, throw, and carry the ball with their hands and from rugby by allowing each side to control the ball in alternating possessions. In the United States, American football, a variant of rugby, is played with 11 players on each side, making it the country's most popular spectator sport. American football was played officially as a demonstration sport only once, in 1932.
Flag Football
Flag football is a variant of gridiron football (American football or Canadian football depending on location) where, instead of tackling players to the ground, the defensive team must remove a flag or flag belt from the ball carrier ("deflagging") to end a down. In flag football, contact is limited between players. In early September 2023, the list of sports was finalized by the IOC. In mid-October, flag football was approved by the IOC at their meeting in Mumbai, India, as one of five additions to the 2028 program.
Lacrosse
Lacrosse is a contact team sport played with a lacrosse stick and a lacrosse ball. It is the oldest organized sport in North America, with its origins with the indigenous people of North America as early as the 12th century. The game was extensively modified by European colonists, reducing the violence, to create its current collegiate and professional form. Players use the head of the lacrosse stick to carry, pass, catch, and shoot the ball into the goal. World Lacrosse’s decades-long vision to return the sport to the Olympic stage has been realized, with the International Olympic Committee approving lacrosse’s inclusion in the 2028 Olympic Games in Los Angeles.
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