Sports you want to see added to the Olympics

[GreenPartyVoter]

Obviously I vote for cheerleading. Hey, they already have gymnastics and ice skating, and they recognize sport dancing, so I am more than ready to see my fave sport added.

[fudge stripe cookays]

1. Hmmm...

how about projectile vomiting in restaurants for distance?

:P
FSC

[GreenPartyVoter]

2. That can only be added to the Junior Olympics, though

[fudge stripe cookays]

7. Point taken! n/t

[yvr girl]

6. How about accuracy

I knew a girl in high school who projectile vomited while she was making out with her boyfriend at a party. Her aim was true, and he didn't move fast enough.

:puke:

[MichaelHarris]

3. Fake

reporter question asking marathon. Wait, we already have that event, they're just not covering it.

[GreenPartyVoter]

4. *adding White House Press event to the list*

[sniffa]

5. competitive eating

curLing, and that Log tossing event they had during the french winter oLympics.

[GreenPartyVoter]

12. I thought they already had curling?? And the log throwing.. is that the

Scottish Caber toss? Because I agree, that would be a great addition to the roster of events.

[sniffa]

13. i think curLing is endangered (but not sure)

and the Log tossing event - i can't remember the name for the Life of me, but the winning tosses are something Like 6'? that's comicaL.

[GreenPartyVoter]

14. I think the Scottish variation is distance but also getting it to stand on

end? I need to go look this up! *l*

[GreenPartyVoter]

18. Hmmm no, it seems that it just needs to have the smaller end land so that

it is pointing away from the tosser at a perfect 12 o'clock position.

[Redstone]

16. It's called "tossing the caber" at the Scottish games

Personally, I'd rather throw a fit than one of those telephone poles.

Redstone

[LynneSin]

8. White House Press Room Softball Question throwing contest

:shrug:

[ProudToBeLiberal]

9. arm wrestling nt

[Drifter]

10. Juggling ...

There is a new organization called the World Juggling Federation. They recently had a competition in Las Vegas that was covered on ESPN2.

This is serious technical sport juggling. You will not see a guy with a funny hat eating an apple. What you will see is some unimaginable tricks with an unbelievable number of objects.

Cheers
Drifter

[GreenPartyVoter]

11. That would be cool!

[Ready4Change]

20. I know some jugglers.

Very technical, always seeking out and developing new techniques and tricks. I can see this.

[LynneSin]

15. How about Competitive Lounge Thread Locking

Seriously, we had some gold medal contenders last night

Great job to the moderators though!!

[GreenPartyVoter]

17. I missed most of it. Walked in here, saw the kid threads and did a 180

Didn't need my blood pressure upped over that. _I_ know that my kids are well-behaved when I take them out, and that we never eat in anything other than family restaurants. *g*

[Deep13]

19. Javilin catching

centathalon
100 meter dash from the police
clown car racing
electrified hurdles
axe, axe, who's got the axe?
steroid powerlifting
summer lake hockey
bunch of rich guys in a skinny row boat
landmine relay
fat American 10 meter marathon
figure skating pansies

[GreenPartyVoter]

21. I have to say I wouldn't care to try most of those *l*

[regularguy]

22. Japaneese Tea Ceremony?

Hi MOM!! We're Ichi-ban!!

[Tyrone Slothrop]

23. Brockian Ultra-Cricket

"Although it has been said that on Earth alone in our Galaxy is Krikkit (or cricket) treated as fit subject for a game, and that for this reason the Earth has been shunned, this does only apply to our Galaxy, and more specifically to our dimension. In some of the higher dimensions they feel they can more or less please themselves, and have been playing a peculiar game called Brockian Ultra-Cricket for whatever their transdimensional equivalent of billions of years is.

Lets be blunt, it's a nasty game, but anyone who has been to the higher dimensions will know that they're a pretty nasty heathen lot up there who should just be smashed and done in, and would be, too, if anyone could work out a way of firing missiles at right-angles to reality.

The rules to the game of Brockian Ultra-cricket, as played in the higher dimensions are strange and inexplicable. A full set of the rules is so massively complicated that the only time they were all bound together to form a single volume, they underwent gravitational collapse and became a black hole.

A brief summary, however, is as follows:

Rule One:

Grow at least three extra legs. You won't need them, but it keeps the crowds amused.

Rule Two:

Find one good Brockian Ultra-Cricket player and clone him off a few times. This saves an enormous amount of tedious selection and training.

Rule Three:

Put your team and the opposing team in a large field and build a high wall round them.

The reason for this is that, though the game is a major spectator sport, the frustration experienced by the audience at not actually being able to see what's going on leads them to imagine that it's a lot more exciting than it actually is. A crowd that has just watched a rather humdrum game experiences far less life-affirmation than a crowd that believes it has just missed the most dramatic event in sporting history.

Rule Four:

Throw lots of assorted items of sporting equipment over the walls for the players. Anything will do - cricket bats, basecube bats, tennis guns, skis, anything you can get a good swing with.

Rule five:

The players should now lay about themselves for all they are worth with whatever they find to hand. Whenever a player scores a 'hit' on another player, he should immediately run away and apologize from a safe distance.

Apologies should be concise, sincere and, for maximum clarity and points, delivered through a megaphone.

Rule Six:

The winning team shall be the first team that wins.

Curiously enough, the more the obsession with the game grows in the higher dimensions, the less it is actually played, since most of the competing teams are now in a state of permanent warfare with each other over the interpretation of these rules. This is all for the best, because in the long run a good solid war is less psychologically damaging than protacted game of Brockian Ultra-Cricket."

[GreenPartyVoter]

24. If the Brockian Ultra-Cricket is in, then so is Quidditch! *g*

[RedCloud]

25. Snow skiing then water skiing then shoot a gun thing!

From the snow skiing and using the same pair of skies, one hurls over the cliff grabbing a rope which is attached to a motor boat, then to get, the rifle groups money kicking in, shoot something...