Breakdancing is set to become a new Olympic sport. Watching America’s Got Talent, I feel like I’m looking at the future of Olympic sports, with human and dog acrobatics, human pyramids, acrobats spinning 30 feet in the air, and complex acrobatic dance troupes. What’s next for quick costume changes, knife throwing, and magic tricks?
Richard Holmen
Trabuco Canyon
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Breakdancing? I was curious about Tiddlywinks, so I went and watched it. It was great entertainment. The young people there were very athletic, funny, kind, and very supportive of each other. Everyone seemed to be having a great time. I support keeping breakdancing in the 2028 Los Angeles Games.
John Laronde
Camarillo
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One of the great moments of sportsmanship in Olympic history was when high jumpers Mutaz Barshim and Gianmarco Tamberi tied in Tokyo to share the gold medal. Amazingly, Hamish Carr of New Zealand and Shelby McEuen of the United States tied in Paris too. They both opted for a jump-off, with Carr winning the gold after an exhausted jumper missed 11 times in a row (while losing altitude!). Our collective obsession with winning and medals ignores the mission statement of Baron Pierre de Coubertin, father of the modern Olympics: “It’s not about winning, it’s about taking part.”
Brad Kearns
Stateline, Nevada
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Nobody is interested in the Olympics anymore. There is cheating, corruption, dirty water, insulting shows, men and women fighting, French ideology imposed on the athletes, virtue signalling on housing and food, horribly unsafe venues, biased refereeing during the event, terrible programs and TV listings, outrageous arrogance on the part of the athletes, an unchecked atmosphere of impending terrorism, and there will be a lot more to come in 2028. The Olympics are killing interest in sports in the same way that the Oscars killed interest in movies.
Russell Beecher
Canyon Lake
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Thank you for your excellent email newsletters every day during the Paris Olympics. John Cherwa’s daily recaps of the events were excellent, with his own entertaining antics and observations that were almost as entertaining as the events themselves. With more lively coverage like this, maybe big city newspapers won’t disappear after all.
Steve Weinstein
West Hollywood
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“My country fought for me to come home, and I brought home a gold medal,” Brittney Griner said. It seems she learned a valuable lesson: America isn’t perfect, but it’s still a country we can be proud of and cry about during the national anthem.
David Waldowski
Laguna Woods
