Sports Acrobatics Global

Throughout the world many countries are facing the same problem; many nations are pushing for sports acrobatics to be part of the Olympics. Sports acrobatics is very popular throughout the world and has incredible world-class groups. In the United States clubs are doing exhibitions and shows trying to publicities to make the society become more familiar with the sport. Especially during the United States Gymnastics National Championships they allowed our best athletes to compete to bring awareness to the sport. Sports acrobatics deserves attention and a place into the Olympics.

During the recent 2012 summer Olympics in London, many teams had trouble with their Olympic participants. For example, the host team Britain had  “falling numbers of participants in Olympic sports including gymnastics, swimming and rowing” (Falling Numbers 1). Personally, it was quite sad to see Britain only win one medal in the men’s gymnastics in front of their home crowd and the Royal couple. During my acrobatics career I was able to meet athletes from a club called Whales that were located in England. Whales have fantastic groups that could be a great asset to the British team if sports acrobatics was put into the Olympics. By adding sports acrobatics into the Olympics this would give countries more opportunities to win medals for their nation and to create better competition. Also it would increase the number of Olympic athletes and the variety of different new nations into the Olympics. During the Olympic ceremony, people can see that there were several countries with just a few athletes. Countries such as Azerbaijan, Israel, and South Africa could be expanded with sports acrobatic athletes. Sports acrobatics should be in the Olympics because of the new variety of athletes that could increase the participants.  

This drive to push sports acrobatics into the Olympics is global and has gone on for many years. Sports acrobatics was “exhibited at the 1992 Olympics” (Olsen 5) to expose the sport to a vast range of audiences. Many people believe that Olympics sports are a tradition since it has been around for thousands of years. But these sports are slowly decreasing athlete participants. Why not add sports acrobatics to the Olympics to increase new athletes to participant and bring new countries together.

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 Works Cited:

"Falling numbers for Olympic sports." Evening Standard [London, England] 3 Nov. 2009: 47. Global Issues In Context. Web. 5 Nov. 2013.