Karate in the Olympics

As sad as it may seem, golf was voted more likely to join the Olympics than karate. The Olympics already includes many different fights such as taekuondo and judo and they did already invite karate but they refused. The real problem with karate in the Olympics is that people don’t want to see katás, only fights. As I mentioned before, karate is a deep and philosophical martial art, the Karate representatives did not acknowledge going to the Olympics without a kata tournament (which is the most important and the one which is most contemplated in any karate tournaments). This brought up a very controversial issue because who should be really responsible to judge if karate is or not worthy of joining the Olympics only as kumite (fights)? Going even further, how can we judge which karate-style should be performed as katas, could all styles be performed? Or only the official ones? Who decides what is karate and what isn't? What are the rules since some styles allow hitting and others dont? Personally, I take karate seriously enough to think that it is best not to be in the Olympics than to show the world that we are about fighting and hitting; we - not like other martial arts - still hold true to the old ways of meditation and morals. But there are those who join it so they can learn to fight and hit others, rarely they get to high belts though. Maybe one day they will realize that it is worthy having more martial arts and giving them space to show what they really mean, but until then, I rather not participate in a superficial tournament of fighting meaningless matches.