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Here's my hot take. Disclaimer: I'm not saying any of these don't require any skill.
No sport that isn't objective or purely human should be allowed in the Olympics. No horse dancing, or horse jumping, no skateboarding, or gymnastics, etc etc.
I would be fine with skateboarding if it was objective stuff like who can ramp off the furthest or who can do X amounts of spins in x time and same for gymnastics. Wrestling should be purely on who can knock out/pin the opponent for x time and not have any technical subjective points.
Again, I'm not saying any of these shouldn't be allowed to exist or that they aren't impressive/difficult. If it's gonna be a competition about whose the best human on the planet for something it needs to be objective with no room for argument. It's always the subjective sports that people have complaints about, usually about the judges not scoring correctly.