The bodybuilding and the Olympics is always a debate in this place and time when the London Olympics are in full again the question arises whether bodybuilding should be considered as an Olympic sport.
Of course there are those who favor and those who are against it and each wields arguments to be taken into account. There are those who say that if the weight lifting has long been an Olympic sport, why can not be bodybuilding? However, it would be necessary to begin by asking if the bodybuilding should be considered a sport.
Doing a bit of history may be recalled that between 1970 and 1980 there was a significant attempt to make the split bodybuilding participate in the Olympics as a sport but always getting a negative response by government agencies basing their decision on the fact that bodybuilding can not be considered a sport.
On the other hand, the definitions that exist on “sport” are ambiguous and in the case of the dictionary of the Royal Academy: “Sport is all physical activity, exercised as a game or competition, whose practice involves training and rules”.
While the French Academy Dictionary defines it as: “All kinds of physical exercises, games and racing skill and strength, horse racing competitions in the water, hunting, fencing, gymnastics, automobile, etc.”.
And finally, a definition which expresses the Australian Sports Foundation says that sport is “a human activity capable of achieving a result requiring physical exertion and / or physical skill which, by its nature and organization is competitive and is generally accepted as a sport”.
Reading these definitions could be said that bodybuilding was adjusted in a way all the concepts and even more so the latter, but in truth this is not enough for the International Olympic Committee and strictly speaking the main problem lies in the fact of use and in many cases substance abuse to improve the performance of bodybuilders, something forbidden in the policies of this type of competition.
There are rules that besides being anti-doping cause severe closely monitoring the Olympians excluding professional bodybuilders. But this argument might be for those bodybuilders who use performance enhancing drugs and physical results, which does not happen with those found in the body building not using substances.
Another reason argued by the IOC for not including bodybuilding is the fact that the jury’s decision is entirely subjective, as it evaluates the physical harmony and this may be different for each person.
Today, the Olympic program consists of sports events and develops all of them, but for now the discussion about bodybuilding prevails and the obstacle is still the International Olympic Committee and OPC continue to claim that bodybuilding is not a sport and therefore has no space within the powers of the Olympics.
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