It seems the creators of spinning top battle game Beyblade lowkey want it to become an Olympic sport. Speaking to Metro, designer Kenji Horikoshi spoke about the continued popularity of Beyblade ...

Beyblade is a line of competitive spinning tops, which sounds like a joke until you learn it’s sold more than 160 million toys since 1999. Like many toy lines, it at first seemed to be a fad.

“Have you heard about the creator of Beyblades?” he asks. “He wants to make Beyblade an Olympic sport. So if that ever happens, you know, I want to be one of those Olympic participants.