These "sports" have been replaced by new "sports". Here's a few examples of what kids now think is an olympic event. 1) Being able to use a new phone app. 2) Eating (dude, I ate 3 Angus burgers) 3) Shoving an entire tin of "altoids" in their mouth at once 4) texting several hundred times a day
Agreed on the first two, not the last. When you get into the specifics of boxing, you'll see that it's much more than just two guys beating the crap out of each other.
YES! Anyone who has ever actually gone curling knows that athletics are involved. They make it look MUCH easier on TV than it actually is!