Plugged in winners

The Robot Humanoid Olympics are on in China over the weekend with hundreds of teams from 16 countries. There are many of the usual sports including track and field, football, table tennis, but also speed medicine sorting and cleaning services. Finally, I might have a chance for an Olympic medal, maybe in the medicine sorting events.

The last real Olympics showed how wide the definition of ‘sport’ has become with the introduction of ‘break dancing’ and ‘skate boarding’ although the traditional events were still there. At least the 1900 event ‘Live Pigeon Shooting’ hasn’t returned to the Olympics.

I might be out of date but I prefer the old sports. I’d rather see a person competing not a person with a keyboard competing.

Dennis Fitzgerald,

Melbourne, Australia