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by mcphage 677 days ago
> The argument is that it is not a sport, but an artistic expression.

It can be both. And really, if that's his argument, then he needs to take it up with the World DanceSport Federation. From my understanding, the IOC is kinda like the Unicode Consortium—their job is not to codify some alphabet, it's to take an already defined, used, and supported encoding, and bring it into the fold. The IOC doesn't make up what the sports are, they take sports that are already judged at the world level, and put them into the Olympics.
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krisoft 677 days ago
> And really, if that's his argument, then he needs to take it up with the World DanceSport Federation.

He is taking it up with the whole world. Wrote an article to do it.

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mcphage 677 days ago
That's fair, I suppose, but unfortunately I neither agree with him, nor am in a position to do anything about it, even if I did.
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krisoft 677 days ago
> I neither agree with him

I don't agree with him either! Or rather I don't have an opinon. I neither agree nor disagree with him. It's just that I can understand his argument without having to form an opinion about it.

> nor am in a position to do anything about it,

Same. The day when dancers need my help to decide anything about dance we all are in a big trouble. Hopefully it never happens. :)

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