Obscure Olympic Sports

Just sitting in my living room on a cloudy Minnesota day watching the Today show when I saw a crazy segment.  It was two brothers who are both trying out for the Olympic Trampoline Team! What the .....

This is actually a sport in the Olympics?   I guess it is, check it out: 

Here are some other sports that I didn't realize were part of the summer Olympics: 

BMX Biking

Canoe\Kayak Sprinting.  If that's too fast they also have normal races. 

Tennis 

Table Tennis

Even more strange are the sports that are, according to Wikipedia, are not recognized as Olympic sports but their governing bodies are  which means these may be considered for inclusion: 

• Auto Racing: cmon, really. 
• Billiard Sports: guess all those times at the pool hall could have paid off for me. 
• Bridge- nuff said
• Floorball- essentially floor hockey.  Darn it, I should have kept my floor hockey goalie stick. Apparently it's big in Europe (the sport not my stick). 
• Korfball- no kidding.  It's like basketball with a basket at the end of a pole, see

• Basque Pelota- I guess it's essentially like handball. How exciting

• Tug of War- What the .... Tug of War?  

This is just a few among many so called sports that you may some day see on your TV screen. Wow!

Check out the list for yourself:  Olympic_sports