Author Topic: If you could add an event to the Olympics... (Read 20980 times)

Rob S · « **Reply #100 on:** 20 August, 2008, 12:29:03 pm »

I think softball should be returned immediately for 2012....I've been watching the Japan v Australia match all morning when I should be getting out on my bike under very grey skies!! I guess it's a lot of infrastructure for one event but it makes good spectating

Gus · « **Reply #101 on:** 21 August, 2008, 09:14:30 pm »

Rugby

Cudzoziemiec · « **Reply #102 on:** 22 August, 2008, 05:20:57 am »

Quote from: KidJambo on 18 August, 2008, 02:36:51 pm

Being serious for a moment if I may, I caught the World Championships of a sport that was like a cross between billiards and shove ha'penny on Eurosport the other day - can anyone remind me what it was called? - looked like an ideal potential Olympic sport - a bit of a pub-game that we could rule at!

Was it carambol?

Cudzoziemiec · « **Reply #103 on:** 22 August, 2008, 05:23:18 am »

Camel racing. With blindfolds (on the camels, not the jockeys - they have no control over their mounts anyway).

rower40 · « **Reply #104 on:** 22 August, 2008, 11:14:42 pm »

Rowing Slalom. With an eskimo-roll for extra points.
Or Le-Mans-Style start in the rowing/cycling events. Run to the boat/bike, get in/on, set off.

[contraversial]
opening up track racing to all designs of bikes, 'bents-n-all.
[/contraversial]

Extreme T5-baggage-reclaim.

Surfing?

+1 for Rugby.

Jon P · « **Reply #105 on:** 23 August, 2008, 12:11:49 am »

Bog-snorkelling.

Seriously, snooker - one of the few sports I find interesting

scott · « **Reply #106 on:** 23 August, 2008, 03:29:00 am »

midnight forum takeovers.

dkahn400 · « **Reply #107 on:** 23 August, 2008, 11:14:33 am »

Trolling uk.rec.cycling

gonzo · « **Reply #108 on:** 25 August, 2008, 12:21:45 pm »

How about adding cycloX to the winter games? It could be spectacular!

Cudzoziemiec · « **Reply #109 on:** 03 February, 2022, 06:40:48 pm »

For the Winter Olympics, karate on ice and sumo on thin ice.

rogerzilla · « **Reply #110 on:** 04 February, 2022, 07:58:32 am »

Playground slides.

Each team gets a long strip of snow-covered tarmac and has to turn it into the longest possible slide by running at it and skidding in school shoes. Points are awarded for length and style, e.g. one-footed, piggyback, "the Diddyman", etc.

After 1 hour, a sour-faced caretaker turns up with a bucket of rock salt and tells the competitors to do something more useful with their lives.

TPMB12 · « **Reply #111 on:** 04 February, 2022, 08:13:39 am »

Most pointless punditry!
Most wooden interview with an athlete (competing and not competing categories).
Most jingoistic opening or closing ceremony that means nothing to anyone outside of the host country!
Most epic fail! What I mean is the worst performing favourite. The person 27th n the highest hopes that got the worst performance.
Best performing no hoper journeyman/ woman competitor.
Worst tv cut made by a local production team that means a nation misses out on seeing their country's representative compete just because they meant nothing to the local crew.
Most pointless winter event using brushes and stones on ice. Thanks Scotland for giving us that one!

I could go on because the winter games are still dull and full of pointless events. They're trying to get better with winter events like the summer bmx and skateboarding events. A change from the mostly posh brits competing against countries where skiing is a valid mode of travel learnt shortly after learning to walk.

Cudzoziemiec · « **Reply #112 on:** 04 February, 2022, 10:17:06 am »

"Best performing no hoper journeyman/ woman competitor."
This could be named the "Eddie the Eagle" award.

Beardy · « **Reply #113 on:** 04 February, 2022, 10:55:06 am »

Quote from: Cudzoziemiec on 04 February, 2022, 10:17:06 am

"Best performing no hoper journeyman/ woman competitor."
This could be named the "Eddie the Eagle" award.

the thing that most impressed me (in hindsight) about Eddie the Eagle was that he managed to compete as a representative of the UK in spite of the entitled establishments efforts to thwart him.

Mr Larrington · « **Reply #114 on:** 04 February, 2022, 11:02:16 am »

While there were those who muttered about Eddie being a disgrace to BRITAIN and bringing the game into disrepute and so forth, usually from inside a brass-buttoned blazer, one Finnish ski-jumper said “If he's the best you’ve got then of course he should be here!”

Cudzoziemiec · « **Reply #115 on:** 04 February, 2022, 11:34:33 am »

That's an interesting perspective. I don't know much about him TBH and if anything I'd perceived it the other way round; that he was the expression of Corinthian idealism, and "by jingo we don't need professionals, we're British". kind of like not needing experts

CrazyEnglishTriathlete · « **Reply #116 on:** 04 February, 2022, 11:45:13 am »

Slow cycling

https://www.cyclingnews.com/news/formolo-sperotto-set-novelty-slowest-hour-record-at-918-metres/

For added fun, on the long track speed skating circuit as a winter sport.

Mr Larrington · « **Reply #117 on:** 04 February, 2022, 01:11:47 pm »

Icetrack cycling is already A Thing usually on 400m speed skating tracks. Hour record holder Eva Navratilova has also been spotted racing velomobiles during the warmer season.

mrcharly-YHT · « **Reply #118 on:** 05 February, 2022, 04:33:23 pm »

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RhAJT7skpTo

Spinning bar wrestling.

I'd also like to add log chopping. Particularly the 'tree felling' version.
https://youtu.be/dYU0iVsKmow?t=67

peterc · « **Reply #119 on:** 06 February, 2022, 09:12:17 am »

Quote from: Mr Larrington on 04 February, 2022, 01:11:47 pm

Icetrack cycling is already A Thing usually on 400m speed skating tracks.

I feel this post might be for me, as possibly the only forum-ist who has raced with the BHPC, done a bit of long track speed skating and ridden an Icetrack bike (at the UK long track nationals a few years back)

Yes, they are, very strange sensation but felt reasonably swift.

Beardy · « **Reply #120 on:** 06 February, 2022, 11:09:33 am »

Snowboard jumping on the big ski jumping hills.

Jaded · « **Reply #121 on:** 12 February, 2022, 06:01:23 pm »

Luge Parascending down the big ski jump hill…

fd3 · « **Reply #122 on:** 18 February, 2022, 03:25:13 pm »

hpv racing - full faired, part faired and unfair.

Beardy · « **Reply #123 on:** 18 February, 2022, 03:36:53 pm »

Quote from: fd3 on 18 February, 2022, 03:25:13 pm

hpv racing - full faired, part faired and unfair.

The UCI say recumbents are unfair already.

Kim · « **Reply #124 on:** 19 February, 2022, 12:56:52 am »

Landing A380s in gusting crosswind.

Author Topic: If you could add an event to the Olympics... (Read 20980 times)

Rob S

gonzo