About two weeks ago, I came across an article titled "5 sports that don't belong in the Olympics," written by Chris Chase. The cover photo was of a rhythmic gymnast with a hula hoop. Chris Chase wrote this particular article for Fox Sports and bashed 5 sports that are currently in the olympics - one being rhythmic gymnastics. For those that don't know, rhythmic gymnastics combines ballet, tumbling and object manipulation. It's pretty amazing to watch.

I want to a make it clear that I am not a rhythmic gymnast. Although, I am a hula hoop dancer and was once a tumbler, so I understand hard work and talent in this field when I see it. The amount of strength, flexibility and precision that rhythmic gymnastics requires is incredible in itself.

So, you, Chris Chase, could not be more wrong.

To begin with, you start your article off by setting up this perfect scenario of you spending the Olympics on your couch ordering food. You state that you are, "attempting to get the food delivery guy to come directly inside the house to save me the trouble of getting the door. (It's my best chance at Olympic gold.)" Within that first paragraph, I wondered to myself if you were even qualified to decide which sports belong in the Olympics. I wondered if you had ever played a physically demanding sport and felt what it was like to train your life away. So I of course googled you. The answer is no. Before being a writer, you were a school teacher. Then you became one of the most infamous sports bloggers of all times.

You say in your article that, "They throw balls into the air and catch them on their feet and we're supposed to act impressed." I'm sorry. I forgot that just about every sport ever includes the act of throwing and catching balls, and us being impressed. I've seen a crowd go crazy over a caught ball. These women, on the other hand, do three front walk overs and then catch the ball in a split. Seems a lot more impressive.

It was to my surprise that Fox Sports, a network that should be praising all athletes that have the potential to bring home a gold medal, would let Chase publish click-bait that would easily piss off entire athletic communities and tear down people who have worked their butts off to be good at what they do.

I would go into the other five sports and tell Chase why he was so wrong, but I know nothing about those sports. Therefore, it wouldn't be right for me to write about them. Too bad no one gave him that memo.