Worst sporting events?

The Confederations Cup.

boat race

the up and coming winter olympics in russia will be farce

Last weekend's horseracing

Sochi is gonna cost thirty billion quid, three times the london summer olympics.

The Boat Race by far. Then the F1 season.

I should have said this was a "without the boat race" market.  Though it did result in the extradition of an aussie last hear so it has recently gone up in my estimation.  F1 is utter sh1t though I will watch if an englishman might win the title,  sailing is the worst spectator sport in the olympics imo, not a clue what is going on.

FI
Greyhound Racing
Long distance running
Long distance swimming
Most horseracing except a bit of Cheltenham

Shergar Cup

Polo has to be up there.

Superbowl

for me any tennis, cricket or rugby

F1 and on the whole anything ending in ball

the boat race is shyte imvho

American Football
Baseball
Non-Olympic Basketball.

Football friendlies

Long Jmp
Snooker
Wrestling

sorry didn;t read thread correctly.  Not strictly events (probably with good reason), all boring as xxxx

WOMENS TENNIS !!!! utter overpaid garbage.

1. Womens Tennis
2. Fish-O-Mania
3. Womens Football
4. Cricket
5. Womens Cricket
6. Equestrian
7. Any other sport where Women attempt to compete on an equal footing as men when they are clearly not built for it.

agree with alot of the above

also any darts but particularly if the chavy smarm bag Phil Taylor is playing.

Shergar Cup is a good shout but at least it's an opportunity for a break between Glorious Goodwood and The Ebor meeting.

F1 I just don't get but a lot of people do, why do we have to pretend the Women's European Football Championships is worthy of blanket coverage? - it is n't - the standard is garbage. 

Summer Jumps racing also of zero interest - I love NH racing but have no involvement between the mixed fixture at Sandown at the end of April and the weekend when the Charlie Hall Chase takes place at end Oct/early Nov.

1/ F1
2/ Basketball
3/ Rugby

England friendlies
Champions league
In fact any footy game without a bankruptcy size bet on
Sunday horseracing
Baseball All Star game
NFL Pro Bowl (nap)

As stated, the boat race is a given.

Synchronised swimming and dressage must be the most pointless sporting waste of time for people to get good at.

Walking at the Olympics is pretty naff - Why don't you just run ya' buggers, you like like you are dying to.

Europa League football until they give the winners a Champions League place

Watching any football team managed by Sam Allardyce

For me, any sport that is 'judged' has no place. Diving, Gymnastics, Dressage, Sync Swimming are all a joke. I like Boxing, but the judges scores should be made common knowledge after each round.

Cricket
Football
Tug 'o' war
Triathlon
Biathlon
Triple Jump
Snooker
Pool
Formula 1
100 metres underwater hurdling

Best to take part in:
darts
banger racing
racing round the M25 in the opposite direction to your opponent, at 2-00 a.m.
racing through the old Blackwall Tunnel before the speed cameras were put in
treasure hunts in cars (don't see them these days)

Biathlon

Shocking ommission: Yacht Racing, also curling, WTF is that all about!

I went to an airshow which finished with an aeroplane race.
If you think F1 is boring..........................

olympic rifle shooting, it's basically darts but without the fat drunks lumbering about in costumes.

fishing - how the fck is hooking fish out of water a sport?

The Champions (sic) League (sic)

Formula  One.

GB,

It is to determine the Champions of Europe.
It does have a League phase.

The few football matches that I like are the latter stages of the champions league(if english teams are involved), the world cup(if england are involved) and the euros(if england are involved).

Basketball

Darts

Speedway

Charity Shield  - when people pay good money to watch nothing more than a warm up

athletics and cycling. all dopers

I caught a bit of waterpolo the other night on Eurosport - poor viewing. Bunch of guys in skull caps trying to drown each other in between paddling & treading water frantically.

second the boat race by a number of lengths.

rowing itself is a terrible terrible sport. In fact, i barely consider it a sport. that's not to say it doesn't allow individuals and teams to demonstrate immense athletic achievement, but it's still in the vauxhall conference of "sports". Endless Repetition, strength in place of touch and skill, one dimensional pressure with zero scope for anything extraordinary,  and it's slow. It's just completely crap.

then we've got the fact that it's between two universities which at least 90% of the population have no conceivable affiliation to.

the present undergraduates of the universities will most likely not know any of the rowers given that the boats are now pretty much exclusively made up of post graduates whose rowing prowess has played an overwhelming part in their admission.

and having been down to the river once in my life i was totally unsurprised to see that it's attended by the very worst of the universities' alumni.

just no redeeming features at all.

Hi Rob. T20 cricket is actually ok. I've been to a few matches & it's entertaining. Friendly/relaxed vibe to it all. Affordable too, compared to a lot of other professional team sports.

Can't abide watching gymnastics/show jumping/dressage etc. In fact, while having the utmost respect for the competitors, half of the Olympics is a total bag of shyte watchability-wise.

The Boat Race is an over-hyped event too. One close race every 50 years.

any event in
Paralympics

there, I've said it

and
any event that's 'judged'

If you don't have an interest (financial or personal), then a lot of sport is boring.  Eg, would you like horse racing if you weren't allowed a bet, didn't know the odds of any of horses, and didn't know any of the horses names?  If would just be horses running round in a circle.

Much of the appeal comes from watching either close contests or the best displaying skill levels well beyond the capability of enthusiastic amateurs.  You also need context (eg, watching horses or people running might be boring to some, but if you have the context of times, head-to-heads, records, odds, importance of race etc) then it can be compelling.

That said, how anyone can get so excited about motorsport is beyond me.  Same goes for pre-season friendlies in football.
Actually, most football is utter sh!te tbh.

Rugby union is far too beloved by rugger b*ggers to be truly enjoyed. Not just the Twickenham hampers and Barber jacket mob who are a detestable rabble. The players are usually just as bad. There was a bloke who played in the Berkshire minor leagues a few years back who got banned for continually sticking his finger up opposing players ar*eholes in scrums. Seriously. I’m not making that up. That says it all for me about the players. They like to think of themselves as tough guys, hard nuts, proper men's men but the sport is actually quite homoerotic, grabbing each other's private parts in scrums. Then on nights out, they always try & overtly display how manly they are, by drinking lots of pints, then p*ssing into their pint pots & drinking that too.
Rugby is always loved by your aristo uncle type. The one who has a touch of the Monty from ‘Withnail And I’ about him, and who, you sense, might one day show you his true colours and will have you “even if it must be burglary”.

Table tennis on the other hand is great viewing. As is 10-pin bowling. What's not to love about the movie Kingpin?

was gonna say the commonwealth games. what the hell is the point in that? if you win, youve proved youre the best out of all the countries in the world...except all the countries that are actually any good at anything cos they arent in it!

table tennis is for homosexuals as is tennis

Horse Racing. It's ridiculous. It just comes down to who's on the faster horse. If they introduced some kind of system whereby those riding the faster horses started a bit later, or better still, made them all ride identical horses, then at least it would be fair. Until then, the stables with the most money to spend on their horses will always come out on top.

Has anybody mentioned fishing yet? ;)

Chelsea winning the Champions League

Scottish football

Scottish football

Clunge is fishing - I'm not biting.

It's the sport of Kings, SF - He's a peasant from Stoke. No further explanation required.

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that thing where a bunch of halfwits chase a big cheese down the hill

The worst sporting events for me would be the Waterloo Cup (hare coursing) or anything in the same vein.  I also detest National Hunt horse racing and fishing.

Equestrianism - the lottery funding for equestrianism is roughly the same as for swimming - we may not be that good at swimming, but at least its a sport that most of the people in the country can identify with and participate in - giving money to the toffs that do equestrianism is a total joke - no-one has any interest and none of them need the money, and the prestige is almost non-existent

rob is right re sailing. Don't think its because of the actual sport, it is exactly because nobody at any point actually explained it.

NOt sure about that one where you run across a snow-covered forest to then lie down and shoot targets. A bit too much like paintball for nonces

paintball for nonces.

Or as it's otherwise known, paintball.

hmmm..without it we wouldn't have had Spaced....ah that reminds me...

A crime to add this to the list as I personally love watching this for ironic amusement
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GOlEYNlSZ44

Running across snow-covered forests and then shooting targets is derived, like many sports, from military training.

League Cup in 1990 was sensational

Commonwealth Games were awesome back in the day

Lots of sports today are fodder for the insatiable appetite that is the umpteen live sports channels & there need to fill schedules.

Can't imagine a Rugby Union match without tv & hearing the ref deciding which of the many fouls in a ruck he has decided to rule against ignoring all the others.....ludicrous sport.

As sporting events -- F1 is very loud. Golf is on the cusp -- you can get close to the action but you can't see the overall picture. I'd defend the boat race in that at least you can tell who is winning, unlike, say, diving.

Rugby union today is better than last century. If you look at the classic era rugby internationals from the 70s and 80s, the sport really was a joke: played on ploughed fields by unfit players who could barely pass in the vague direction of their team mates, but that didn't matter because none of them could catch.

American football is dire. It goes on for hours and most of the time, nothing is happening. They are just standing around or walking a few yards up the pitch.

The Bore,aka Boat, race wins by a 'country mile' but has anyone mentioned Speedway.Went to a fixture at Hampden Park many years ago.The first rider to the first bend,i.e.,either the rider in lane 1 or 2,would win every race.

Does that apply to every race, or just that particular night?

Badminton horse trials

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26 Jul 13 13:43   
Speedway. Went to a fixture at Hampden Park many years ago.The first rider to the first bend,i.e.,either the rider in lane 1 or 2,would win every race.

I was at West Ham the night that Swindons Tad Teodorowicz had a bike run over his neck.


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Wimbledon - Was great to watch as a kid. But now all we get is, good shot, close up of a clenched fist, to close up of the players dad, bad shot, close up of a players face being wiped with a towel, to close up of a few fans with mini union jacks in the crowd. Then its over to henman hill, murray mound, robsons rise, rusedskis hardon etc.

American pool with the impossible-to-miss pockets.

Surprise surprise, my five all time favourite sports have been nominated by the philistines on here.

Horse racing
Greyhound racing
Cricket
Rugby
NFL

I'll agree with F1 and to me the boat race is a given.
I'll throw football into the mix, I cannot possibly watch a game unless I have had a punt on it not even if the mighty Crystal Palace are playing.

Lots have always been terrible - F1, Boat Race, Rugby Union (yawnion or kick & clap) probably most high profile of these.
Then there are sports that sensibly never saw the light of day when the BBC had rights to all the good stuff but now get airtime either for PC reasons - Paralympics & Women's football lead the way here - or because GB suddenly become good at it, with Cycling currently following in the footsteps of Rowing & Ice Dancing.
More worryingly lots of the good sports have now made themselves unwatchable, either wholly or in part. Abolition of promotion/relegation in place of horrific franchise system means I no longer watch Super League. Pathetic standard & allowing John Higgins to carry on playing means snooker now just about off the agenda too. Champions League is just an obnoxious money spinning disgrace. Cricket is busily selling it's soul with all the garbage T20 leagues doing untold damage to Tests.
Golf & Tennis only ones that emerge with reputations intact.
Have just taken it as read that all US sports are obviously totally pathetic.

Ice Skating... Not even a sport, IMO. You can be the best on the planet, but if that fat old Russian doesn't fancy you, then forget it.


Ski jumping... You can jump ten yards further than the rest, but unless you look like Danny La Rue, as you're flying through the air, then don't bother.


Aussie Rules...  there is a very good reason why only one country on the planet plays this garbage. The fella from Dewhurst's the Butchers gesticulating behind the posts. What the fek is that all about ?


Dressage...  Horses are meant to be ridden. They have carried warriors into battle. King Richard III even offered to swap his entire kingdom for one. They are not meant to bounce up and down in a fekin sand pit, whilst some toffee deliberates on whether the poor bugger has taken one stride too many.

Aussie Rules is the best sport ever invented

disabled sport  - great for those that compete would who the f00k wants to watch it
basketball - invented only for black people over 7 feet tall and someone scores every 2 seconds
swimming - 4 different strokes,30 distances,mens,womens,relay and all look the same as soon as they dive in
tennis  -  a sport for posh boys and girls.peasants on hand to fetch the balls and provide towells.feigning injury allowed if a player is losing
marathon running - 1000s of sweaty do gooders running 13 miles behind the race leaders wearing silly costumes.participants allowed to pi55 in road

american football is a cracking sport. you obviously havent watched it properly.

theres a lot of "standing about" cos thats how the game works. a game lasts 3 hours, big deal. a test match lasts 5 days. sports take different lengths of time to be played, thats just how it is.

So, inevitably, the 'worst sporting events' thread has just become 'worst sports' thread.

If this was not intended to be a 'worst sports' thread then surely the enjoyability of the individual sport is not relevant to the discussion.It should just be about events that are unsatisfactory in some way because of the structure/climax of the competition.

So i would nominate club rugby where they have an 8 month long home and away season where everyone plays each other ,then they have play offs between the top 4 finishers . So the league programme is diminished by the fact that it will be followed by play offs and the play offs are diminished by the the fact they've already all played each other and finished 1-2-3-4 in the table .

The Europa League is surely the most pointless competition in Sport . Absolutely interminable process of hundreds of games to get down to 24 , then add 8 more teams who qualify for being no good in another competition , then another 4 rounds before the final to decide which team is the...... erm what exactly ? The best team other than the 20 odd better teams that played in the real thing ? The original point of The UEFA Cup was that The European Cup could only be for Champions so they needed another tournament for other teams to get a taste of European Football . Once that was no longer the case the logical thing was to scrap the lesser ones and have everyone in 1 competition .They ditched the Cup Winners Cup for that reason but this other nonsense drags on tediously for no reason anyone can explain.

Euro 2016 will be absurd as well .24 teams so even countries with two 0-0s and a 0-1 will have a good chance of making the last 16 .Any tournament where it is harder to get knocked out than get through is inherently stupid .

I watched Sussex in a T20 last week.  I admire the skills of people that can bowl about ninety mph and more so those that can then hit that bowling for six.  The mascots and music and six hitting all make it attractive to kids, women and those with short attention spans.  Thing is I just didnt care who won and went home between innings'.  Hopefuly those that are introduced to cricket via this T20 nonsense will progress to appreciating Test cricket, if not then there is little point to it imo.  I enjoyed Englands world cup win three years ago, but that is the ony time a T20 match ever means anything for me, the rest is just mickey mouse sport.

cycling,utter ****,unless theres a crash.

F1,see above

Maggot. Your views on dressage might be a little bit askew. You mention that knights of old rode their steeds into battle. What you patently fail to comprehend is how the aforementioned knight controlled his aforementioned charger. Well, let's think about it. He's got a shield in one hand and a sword in the other. That means he has to control the horse with signals from his legs only.

Dressage is how the rider/horse combination rehearsed all the skills they would  need in battle. All the dressage disciplines are essential to a warhorse. HTH.

Formula One is NOT a 'sport'. It is a motor-racing event. Why can't you see the difference? It has never been a 'sport' and it was never intended to be.

It's you moaning sods who call it a 'sport' and hen decry it as being a rubbish one!
It's no more meant to be a 'sport' than bell-ringing.
It is a competition. So stop trying to call it something that it is not intended to be!

If they were pedalling the cars.................

RockMonkey 26 Jul 13 22:05 
Lots have always been terrible - F1, Boat Race, Rugby Union (yawnion or kick & clap) probably most high profile of these.
Then there are sports that sensibly never saw the light of day when the BBC had rights to all the good stuff but now get airtime either for PC reasons - Paralympics & Women's football lead the way here - or because GB suddenly become good at it, with Cycling currently following in the footsteps of Rowing & Ice Dancing.
More worryingly lots of the good sports have now made themselves unwatchable, either wholly or in part. Abolition of promotion/relegation in place of horrific franchise system means I no longer watch Super League. Pathetic standard & allowing John Higgins to carry on playing means snooker now just about off the agenda too. Champions League is just an obnoxious money spinning disgrace. Cricket is busily selling it's soul with all the garbage T20 leagues doing untold damage to Tests.
Golf & Tennis only ones that emerge with reputations intact.
Have just taken it as read that all US sports are obviously totally pathetic.

I agree with 99% of this post.
Saw this once on Eurosport - table football world championships. A sporting event? I think it qualifies.
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BSCKOMfmZsg

For me, any sport that is 'judged' has no place. Diving, Gymnastics, Dressage, Sync Swimming are all a joke.

This. By extension ballet could legitimately be called a sport. Which it isn't.

For me, 'sport' means the physical confrontation between humans, either as a team or individually.
This rules out Darts, Snooker, Angling, Car races, Horse races and Phishing!

Agree with tobers re uefa cup.  Seem to play masses of games just to get to the last 32.

Has anyone said "Fencing"?

Must be a pretty small following I would think!

TV Wrestling, featuring Mick McManus etc..

I always thought it would have been more interesting if you could have got a bet on.

Wrestling was and is diabolical. Not a sporting event clearly, but not entertainment either,just a total nonsense.

F1

cars look like scalextric,so boring

Anyone who saw Chiefs play Crusaders tonight could not include rugby in the list.