Arts Olympics

As if we can forget, London is hosting the Olympics later this year and two sports that won't be seen are baseball and softball which have both been dropped. The Olympic Committee have decided not to replace them so both the derivative of rounders become consigned to the bin of former Olympic sports along with many other events that have been discarded but once earned a shiny medal for the winners.
Events like the one won by John Hughes in 1932 who took top placing on the podium in the Town Planning discipline for his design of a recreation centre in Liverpool. Shamefully Town Planning was removed from the list of Olympic events in 1948, as was Architecture with Adolf Hoch's design for a ski jumping hill being the last recipient.
Other much missed Olympic events include Sculpture, painting (watercolours) and aeronautics.
The Europeans dominated all the music disciplines, one instrument, Orchestral and songs for choirs until it was sadly dropped in the 40's.
German Rudolf Georg Bindoing only managed a silver medal in 1928 for his dubiously entitled song 'Rider`s Instructions to his Lover' but countryman Paul Raur won the gold medal for literature four years later.
The 1928 Olympics saw the one and only appearance of Dramatic works but unusually no 1st or 3rd prizes were awarded, just silver to an Italian for his drama 'Icarus'.
The Olympic museum states that the art competitions were dropped from the Olympic program due to difficulty of determining the amateur status of the artists.
Considering that most of the athletes at the Olympics are far from amateur now, this could be a great time to reintroduce a drawing contest and Town Planning as Olympic events.