Yet Another Cycling Forum
Off Topic => The Pub => The Sporting Life => Topic started by: Arch on 05 August, 2012, 06:43:48 pm
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Watching the opening title sequence of the BBC coverage this morning, the graphics cut from boxing to diving.
This led me to thinking about how sports could be combined to make them more exciting. A boxing match, but on the 10m board. Hit your opponent in the right place, and knock them off.
MFWHTBAB then suggested that the knocked off boxer could then avid the knock-out, buy doing an impressive enough dive!
What else could we mix for added excitement. There's the 4x200m javelin relay perhaps.... Aquatic shot put? (and you have to fetch the shot back, wearing pyjamas)
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Jack Thurston suggested (on twitter) combining archery and cycling for a sort of summer biathlon, which I reckon would be a great one.
Another of my twitter correspondents was asking about athletes with medals in more than one sport, which led to a bit of research. Apparently, in 1920, Eddie Eagan of USA got gold in boxing and bobsleigh (summer and winter games, respectively). In 1936, Jacob Tullin Thams (NOR) got silver in sailing and gold in ski-jumping.
More here...
http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_multiple_Olympic_medalists
Not sure how practical it would be to combine some of those as multi-discipline events. Swimming and fencing might work.
d.
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errr... Hockey and horse riding?
running and cycling, for a le-mans style start
rowing and pole vault, using the oar for the latter or the pole for the rowing
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rowing and pole vault, using the oar for the latter or the pole for the rowing
Punt vaulting! I like it!
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Synchronised table tennis?
Or how about bringing the spirit of the walk to cycling? - TT, but with stabilisers.
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rowing and pole vault, using the oar for the latter or the pole for the rowing
Punt vaulting! I like it!
Haven't the Dutch been doing that for years anyway? ;D
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Long jump on the velodrome.
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Synchronised triple jump
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We thought of synchro long jump last night. They all start standing back to back in a tight circle, and then run outwards, and jump. Like a flower! (and gets the whole event done much more quickly!)
Horse judo...
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Greco-Roman water polo.
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Shooting - with boxing gloves
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Sailing and fencing
Yaaaarrrrrrrrrrrr!
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Discus with a cycle wheel
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Kyak table tennis.
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Sailing and fencing
Yaaaarrrrrrrrrrrr!
;D
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Sailing and fencing
Yaaaarrrrrrrrrrrr!
;D ;D
Archery & cross-country horse-riding for that Lord of the Rings feel.
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Vernon has just suggested shotput and badminton.
Whichever way It's pretty pointless.
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Bobb has just suggested they should put Chris Hoy on a bike against Usain Bolt running 100m and see who wins.
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Hoy would just win over 100 (especially if he geared down) but it would be close. He'd win the 200 by 5 seconds + ...
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Someone really should set that up as a televisual event. It'd be even better than Brian Jacks doing 100 parallel bar dips in a minute.
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Archery & cross-country horse-riding for that Lord of the Rings feel.
Mongolia would win
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After the opening ceremony appearance of He Who Must Not Be Named I'm surprised that Quidditch isn't a demonstration sport at these Games. Or at least it's ground-level equivalent shinty.
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Hoy would just win over 100 (especially if he geared down) but it would be close. He'd win the 200 by 5 seconds + ...
BOLT would be in the showers before hoy covered 30 meters ............
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Archery & cross-country horse-riding for that Lord of the Rings feel.
Biathlon (Cycling plus rifle shooting). I quite like the idea of AUKs roaming the countryside with high power rifles strapped to their backs....
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Someone really should set that up as a televisual event. It'd be even better than Brian Jacks doing 100 parallel bar dips in a minute.
Funnily enough Jill Douglas has just tweeted that same question to Chris Hoy. You don't think she's reading this do you ?
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Hoy reckons he could do a standing start 100m in under 9 secs
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Jack Thurston suggested (on twitter) combining archery and cycling
I had a flash of cyclists sprinting to avoid being skewered!
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Hoy reckons he could do a standing start 100m in under 9 secs
No, he's being modest and saying top man 1 team sprinters can!
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Hoy reckons he could do a standing start 100m in under 9 secs
No, he's being modest and saying top man 1 team sprinters can!
Let's throw a horse into the mix too. I remember Cipollini racing a horse over 1km, I think the horse won.
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Hockey and waterpolo
3000m steeplechase w. bikes
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Hoy reckons he could do a standing start 100m in under 9 secs
No, he's being modest and saying top man 1 team sprinters can!
Let's throw a horse into the mix too. I remember Cipollini racing a horse over 1km, I think the horse won.
SO we have sir chris hoy + bike usain bolt + trainers , Zara philips + horse who else is going to join the wacky races ?
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Velodrome dressage.
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Hoy reckons he could do a standing start 100m in under 9 secs
No, he's being modest and saying top man 1 team sprinters can!
Let's throw a horse into the mix too. I remember Cipollini racing a horse over 1km, I think the horse won.
SO we have sir chris hoy + bike usain bolt + trainers , Zara philips + horse who else is going to join the wacky races ?
Obviously, they'll be alongside a pool with Michael Phelps in it.
Then, they all swap.
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Someone really should set that up as a televisual event. It'd be even better than Brian Jacks doing 100 parallel bar dips in a minute.
The BBC late evening roundup show uses the Superstars music, and every time I hear it I'm whisked back to Friday teatime. I can almost taste the potted beef sandwiches.
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Velodrome dressage.
This is a bit dressageish:- [url]http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-8867862777896510907
If you want silly, there's Bicycle Ball.
Both these are UCI sports. ;D
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Greco-Roman wrestling in the tradition of the Oxford-Cambridge boat race. That is, only two competitors - Greece and Italy- who have a wrestling bout every Olympics to see who's best.
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Wheelchair Dry Stone Walling.
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Hammer Team Pursuit
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Horseback javelin throwing. At targets, natch.
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Horseback javelin throwing. At targets, natch.
Like Kirst's horseback archery suggestion, I think that Mongolia already does that. I'm sure I've seen this on some Michael Palin type programme, I've done a bit of googling to find it but without success.
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I've been meaning to write down this idyll for a dozen years*, and now it would fit in two threads at once. Let me introduce, a second time the sport of:
cross-country sculling
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Dressage and Gymnastics. "The Pommel Horse" would simply be called "The Horse"...
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Bicycle pole-vaulting
BMX boxing
Beach tennis
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Horseback javelin throwing. At targets, natch.
Modern Biathlon?
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rowing and pole vault, using the oar for the latter or the pole for the rowing
Punt vaulting! I like it!
Haven't the Dutch been doing that for years anyway? ;D
Frisians have their style of pole vaulting:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fierljeppen
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DCXS1kqbcik&feature=relmfu
Report on the Holland-Friesland match (no, don't ask me to translate the comments, it's Frisian).
Red Bull allready discovered it and changed the format:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bre8DsQZqSs
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Clara Hughes was cycling (again) this olympics and is a regular contestant at the winter olympics for speedskating. Probably the best at this combination was Chris Whitty. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chris_Witty
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Given that it's being held in the East End:
Fencing and Fencing. Skewering some bloke, then selling all the stuff you've nicked off him.
(Doesn't stop to get coat. Runs. Northwards.)
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Beach tennis
Oh yes. With those plastic grid racquets and foam balls, like they sell at seaside shops?
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But it's only really a combination sport if they have to do it in skimpy swimsuits. Bikinis & budgie-smugglers.
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ping pong putt.
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ping pong putt.
Isn't he competing for North Korea?
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;D
Ping Pong P0t, of course, would have been competing for Kampuchea, in every event, as he was the only one left.
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;D
Ping Pong P0t, of course, would have been competing for Kampuchea, in every event, as he was the only one left.
I think my sister and I used to play ping pong pot as kids - taping yoghurt pot pockets to the corners of the coffee table, and using ping pong balls and a walking stick for a cue....
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Walking stick? Lucky! When I were a lad we used us fingers....
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Synchronised marathon.
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Synchronised marathon.
We have the womens team (Yamauchi and Radcliffe, ouch! Or should that be ouch, ouch?)
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rhythmic archery
Two competitors to a team. One shoots, one performs artistic routines, throwing up targets as they twirl, backflip etc.
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rhythmic archery
Two competitors to a team. One shoots, one performs artistic routines, throwing up targets as they twirl, backflip etc.
Archery & Gymnastics? It's been done..
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6zPz3QKqwNU (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6zPz3QKqwNU)
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Someone on the BBC is suggesting combining cycling and rowing to make Olympic Pedalo. ;D
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Horseback javelin throwing. At targets, natch.
Like Kirst's horseback archery suggestion, I think that Mongolia already does that. I'm sure I've seen this on some Michael Palin type programme, I've done a bit of googling to find it but without success.
Google Grozer Bows; he's a Hungarian bowmaker who mentions horse archery on his website.
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Jack Thurston suggested (on twitter) combining archery and cycling for a sort of summer biathlon, which I reckon would be a great one.
I combine them (but it's a bit of a pain transporting a bow and 28" arrows about)
(http://i170.photobucket.com/albums/u249/freddered/Shooting%20and%20Archery/DSC00910.jpg?t=1337551811)
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Sailing and fencing
Yaaaarrrrrrrrrrrr!
Is this the same as bos'un arrows?
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Sailing and fencing
Yaaaarrrrrrrrrrrr!
Is this the same as bos'un arrows?
Excellent!
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At the beginning of each day, each competitor must be closely shaven or have a beard of several months' growth.
Wrestling and Moustache-Curling?
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Cross dressage.
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Sailing and shooting.
Gold, silver and bronze to Somalia.
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wouldn't the horse x hockey thing be polo ?
& it doesn't look as though the Mongolians would have it all their own way ;D
http://www.bhaa.org.uk/
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Rowing jousting. The cox sits at the front of the boat holding a modified oar.
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Martin Rowson today. (http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/cartoon/2012/aug/10/olympics-2012-team-gb-success-cartoon)
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Rowing jousting. The cox sits at the front of the boat holding a modified oar.
Except jousting isn't an olympic sport.
You can't just post your little fantasies!
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Fencing is though.
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How about pole vaulting with fencing foils? Best suited to only but the lightest competitors.
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Fencing is though.
Indeed, but fencing isn't jousting. Completely different discipline!
<so, what would I allow - ah yes ...>
Fencing on the 4" beam - much more elegant than the pugil-sticks in Gladiators.
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You're jousting, aren't you?
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Canoe fencing. Team of three: two to paddle the canoe, one to fence. Fall in & you lose.