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Originally Posted by Cory
You guys don't really think FRC could/should be an Olympic sport right?
As someone who loves the Olympics more than almost any other sporting event... if that somehow happened (in some alternate reality) I would be very unamused.
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Complete agreement on this, and I don't think you'll get much counterargument. I mean, this would be setting a crazy precedent and taking human achievements and putting them on the same stage as man made mechanical ones. I think that defeats the entire principle behind the olympic games. That's just a step away (a large one, granted) from putting robots on the field with human athletes or allowing cypernetic enhancements to athletes. That's a horribly threacherous slope to be approaching, IMO. That's a Jurrasic Park level, red flag situation - don't focus on weather you could, stop to think if you should.
While I feel that FIRST teams should be recognized on the same level as sporting events and sport programs in the communities, I don't feel they should be compared outside of the recognition of the accomplishments.