Thursday, August 14, 2008

olympic dreams

I'm thinking tonight that if I were on the IOC I'd make a few changes to the Olympic events. For example:

Out with doubles ping pong, in with cross-country unicycling.
No more women's 20K walk. How about a 5000m track skipping event instead?
The men's 50K walk should be replaced with a 5m catwalk.
I say no to endless weight divisions in weight lifting but YES to height divisions for basketball.
Fencing? Why not pillowfighting?
Wrestling could be replaced by a simple International gathering of men who aren't afraid to hug. Easy.

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  1. Following the various swimming events I was thinking maybe that concept could be translated to the trace.

    So you could have
    100m running
    100m hopping
    100m skipiing
    100m backwards walking

    200m ---ditto----
    400m ---ditto----

    and so forth. Then maybe some track athletes could get 8 golds in one go!

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  2. Backwards walking/ running... brilliant!

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  3. Pillowfighting is dangerous - I've chipped teeth!

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