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Off Topic => The Pub => The Sporting Life => Topic started by: Arch on 05 August, 2012, 06:43:48 pm

Title: Combining Olympic sports.
Post by: Arch on 05 August, 2012, 06:43:48 pm
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)
Title: Combining Olympic sports.
Post by: citoyen on 05 August, 2012, 06:58:47 pm
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.
Title: Re: Combining Olympic sports.
Post by: perpetual dan on 05 August, 2012, 07:00:46 pm
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
Title: Re: Combining Olympic sports.
Post by: Arch on 05 August, 2012, 08:00:45 pm


rowing and pole vault, using the oar for the latter or the pole for the rowing

Punt vaulting! I like it!

Title: Re: Combining Olympic sports.
Post by: RJ on 05 August, 2012, 08:13:06 pm
Synchronised table tennis?

Or how about bringing the spirit of the walk to cycling? - TT, but with stabilisers.
Title: Re: Combining Olympic sports.
Post by: redshift on 05 August, 2012, 08:20:29 pm


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
Title: Re: Combining Olympic sports.
Post by: Deano on 05 August, 2012, 08:23:21 pm
Long jump on the velodrome.
Title: Re: Combining Olympic sports.
Post by: Rig of Jarkness on 05 August, 2012, 08:24:43 pm
Synchronised triple jump
Title: Re: Combining Olympic sports.
Post by: Arch on 05 August, 2012, 08:27:07 pm
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...
Title: Re: Combining Olympic sports.
Post by: Deano on 05 August, 2012, 08:29:58 pm
Greco-Roman water polo.
Title: Re: Combining Olympic sports.
Post by: RJ on 05 August, 2012, 08:31:45 pm
Shooting - with boxing gloves
Title: Re: Combining Olympic sports.
Post by: Clare on 05 August, 2012, 08:32:44 pm
Sailing and fencing


Yaaaarrrrrrrrrrrr!
Title: Re: Combining Olympic sports.
Post by: Rig of Jarkness on 05 August, 2012, 08:42:22 pm
Discus with a cycle wheel
Title: Re: Combining Olympic sports.
Post by: Biggsy on 05 August, 2012, 08:48:40 pm
Kyak table tennis.
Title: Re: Combining Olympic sports.
Post by: Arch on 05 August, 2012, 08:49:01 pm
Sailing and fencing


Yaaaarrrrrrrrrrrr!

 ;D
Title: Re: Combining Olympic sports.
Post by: Eccentrica Gallumbits on 05 August, 2012, 09:07:43 pm
Sailing and fencing


Yaaaarrrrrrrrrrrr!
;D ;D

Archery & cross-country horse-riding for that Lord of the Rings feel.
Title: Re: Combining Olympic sports.
Post by: Clare on 05 August, 2012, 09:13:01 pm
Vernon has just suggested shotput and badminton.

Whichever way It's pretty pointless.
Title: Re: Combining Olympic sports.
Post by: Eccentrica Gallumbits on 05 August, 2012, 09:19:20 pm
Bobb has just suggested they should put Chris Hoy on a bike against Usain Bolt running 100m and see who wins.
Title: Re: Combining Olympic sports.
Post by: bobb on 05 August, 2012, 09:21:04 pm
Hoy would just win over 100 (especially if he geared down) but it would be close. He'd win the 200 by 5 seconds + ...
Title: Re: Combining Olympic sports.
Post by: Eccentrica Gallumbits on 05 August, 2012, 09:26:28 pm
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.
Title: Re: Combining Olympic sports.
Post by: Rig of Jarkness on 05 August, 2012, 09:30:17 pm
Archery & cross-country horse-riding for that Lord of the Rings feel.

Mongolia would win
Title: Re: Combining Olympic sports.
Post by: Rig of Jarkness on 05 August, 2012, 09:33:53 pm
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.
Title: Re: Combining Olympic sports.
Post by: welshwheels on 05 August, 2012, 09:34:20 pm
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 ............
Title: Re: Combining Olympic sports.
Post by: Manotea on 05 August, 2012, 09:36:40 pm
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....
Title: Re: Combining Olympic sports.
Post by: Rig of Jarkness on 05 August, 2012, 09:38:57 pm
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 ?
Title: Re: Combining Olympic sports.
Post by: Rig of Jarkness on 05 August, 2012, 09:41:22 pm
Hoy reckons he could do a standing start 100m in under 9 secs
Title: Re: Combining Olympic sports.
Post by: rafletcher on 05 August, 2012, 09:44:54 pm
Jack Thurston suggested (on twitter) combining archery and cycling

I had a flash of cyclists sprinting to avoid being skewered!
Title: Re: Combining Olympic sports.
Post by: bobb on 05 August, 2012, 09:45:12 pm
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!
Title: Re: Combining Olympic sports.
Post by: Rig of Jarkness on 05 August, 2012, 09:50:07 pm
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. 
Title: Re: Combining Olympic sports.
Post by: Gus on 05 August, 2012, 10:06:47 pm
Hockey and waterpolo

3000m steeplechase w. bikes
Title: Re: Combining Olympic sports.
Post by: welshwheels on 05 August, 2012, 10:09:35 pm
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 ?
Title: Re: Combining Olympic sports.
Post by: Basil on 05 August, 2012, 10:11:34 pm
Velodrome dressage.
Title: Re: Combining Olympic sports.
Post by: Deano on 05 August, 2012, 10:12:35 pm
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.
Title: Re: Combining Olympic sports.
Post by: Arch on 05 August, 2012, 10:15:37 pm
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.
Title: Re: Combining Olympic sports.
Post by: Efrogwr on 05 August, 2012, 10:26:15 pm
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
Title: Re: Combining Olympic sports.
Post by: red marley on 05 August, 2012, 10:27:40 pm
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.
Title: Re: Combining Olympic sports.
Post by: Jaded on 05 August, 2012, 10:55:34 pm
Wheelchair Dry Stone Walling.
Title: Re: Combining Olympic sports.
Post by: Pingu on 05 August, 2012, 11:31:52 pm
Hammer Team Pursuit
Title: Re: Combining Olympic sports.
Post by: Bledlow on 05 August, 2012, 11:52:45 pm
Horseback javelin throwing. At targets, natch.
Title: Re: Combining Olympic sports.
Post by: Rig of Jarkness on 06 August, 2012, 08:23:34 am
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.
Title: Re: Combining Olympic sports.
Post by: HTFB on 06 August, 2012, 08:55:41 am
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
Title: Re: Combining Olympic sports.
Post by: bobb on 06 August, 2012, 09:03:48 am
Dressage and Gymnastics. "The Pommel Horse" would simply be called "The Horse"...
Title: Re: Combining Olympic sports.
Post by: mrcharly-YHT on 06 August, 2012, 09:08:41 am
Bicycle pole-vaulting


BMX boxing

Beach tennis
Title: Re: Combining Olympic sports.
Post by: David Martin on 06 August, 2012, 09:38:40 am
Horseback javelin throwing. At targets, natch.

Modern Biathlon?
Title: Re: Combining Olympic sports.
Post by: Ivo on 06 August, 2012, 09:45:08 am


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
Title: Re: Combining Olympic sports.
Post by: Ivo on 06 August, 2012, 09:47:41 am
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
Title: Re: Combining Olympic sports.
Post by: rower40 on 06 August, 2012, 09:51:54 am
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.)
Title: Re: Combining Olympic sports.
Post by: Arch on 06 August, 2012, 09:59:24 am


Beach tennis

Oh yes. With those plastic grid racquets and foam balls, like they sell at seaside shops?

Title: Re: Combining Olympic sports.
Post by: Bledlow on 06 August, 2012, 10:19:26 am
But it's only really a combination sport if they have to do it in skimpy swimsuits. Bikinis & budgie-smugglers.
Title: Re: Combining Olympic sports.
Post by: mattc on 06 August, 2012, 10:30:37 am
ping pong putt.
Title: Re: Combining Olympic sports.
Post by: Arch on 06 August, 2012, 10:34:05 am
ping pong putt.

Isn't he competing for North Korea?
Title: Re: Combining Olympic sports.
Post by: Peter on 06 August, 2012, 10:36:05 am
 ;D

Ping Pong P0t, of course, would have been competing for Kampuchea, in every event, as he was the only one left.
Title: Re: Combining Olympic sports.
Post by: Arch on 06 August, 2012, 10:43:13 am
;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....
Title: Re: Combining Olympic sports.
Post by: Peter on 06 August, 2012, 10:47:08 am
Walking stick? Lucky!  When I were a lad we used us fingers....
Title: Re: Combining Olympic sports.
Post by: mattc on 06 August, 2012, 10:52:54 am
Synchronised marathon.
Title: Re: Combining Olympic sports.
Post by: Manotea on 06 August, 2012, 10:55:13 am
Synchronised marathon.

We have the womens team (Yamauchi and Radcliffe, ouch! Or should that be ouch, ouch?)
Title: Re: Combining Olympic sports.
Post by: mrcharly-YHT on 06 August, 2012, 11:02:07 am
rhythmic archery

Two competitors to a team. One shoots, one performs artistic routines, throwing up targets as they twirl, backflip etc.

Title: Re: Combining Olympic sports.
Post by: Manotea on 06 August, 2012, 11:15:39 am
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)
Title: Re: Combining Olympic sports.
Post by: Eccentrica Gallumbits on 06 August, 2012, 11:59:09 am
Someone on the BBC is suggesting combining cycling and rowing to make Olympic Pedalo.  ;D
Title: Re: Combining Olympic sports.
Post by: Efrogwr on 06 August, 2012, 12:10:18 pm
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.
Title: Re: Combining Olympic sports.
Post by: LEE on 06 August, 2012, 12:13:56 pm
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)
Title: Re: Combining Olympic sports.
Post by: rower40 on 06 August, 2012, 03:38:19 pm
Sailing and fencing


Yaaaarrrrrrrrrrrr!
Is this the same as bos'un arrows?
Title: Re: Combining Olympic sports.
Post by: Peter on 07 August, 2012, 10:28:12 am
Sailing and fencing


Yaaaarrrrrrrrrrrr!
Is this the same as bos'un arrows?

Excellent!
Title: Re: Combining Olympic sports.
Post by: HTFB on 07 August, 2012, 10:52:54 am
Quote from: INTERNATIONAL WRESTLING RULES
At the beginning of each day, each competitor must be closely shaven or have a beard of several months' growth.

Wrestling and Moustache-Curling?
Title: Re: Combining Olympic sports.
Post by: mattc on 10 August, 2012, 03:28:40 pm
Cross dressage.
Title: Re: Combining Olympic sports.
Post by: Biff on 10 August, 2012, 04:23:38 pm
Sailing and shooting.
Gold, silver and bronze to Somalia.
Title: Re: Combining Olympic sports.
Post by: ferret on 11 August, 2012, 01:39:18 am
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/
Title: Re: Combining Olympic sports.
Post by: Jaded on 11 August, 2012, 08:34:46 am
Rowing jousting. The cox sits at the front of the boat holding a modified oar.
Title: Re: Combining Olympic sports.
Post by: Wowbagger on 11 August, 2012, 09:11:29 am
Martin Rowson today. (http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/cartoon/2012/aug/10/olympics-2012-team-gb-success-cartoon)
Title: Re: Combining Olympic sports.
Post by: mattc on 11 August, 2012, 11:42:30 am
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!
Title: Re: Combining Olympic sports.
Post by: Jaded on 11 August, 2012, 02:46:11 pm
Fencing is though.

Title: Re: Combining Olympic sports.
Post by: red marley on 11 August, 2012, 03:03:10 pm
How about pole vaulting with fencing foils? Best suited to only but the lightest competitors.
Title: Re: Combining Olympic sports.
Post by: mattc on 11 August, 2012, 06:52:59 pm
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.
Title: Re: Combining Olympic sports.
Post by: Jaded on 11 August, 2012, 06:59:48 pm
You're jousting, aren't you?
Title: Re: Combining Olympic sports.
Post by: Bledlow on 11 August, 2012, 09:38:04 pm
Canoe fencing. Team of three: two to paddle the canoe, one to fence. Fall in & you lose.