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Strongman.
Great sport, but in it's current form is exactly what the "we should have an Olympics where people can take whatever drugs they like so we can see the peak of performance". It needs a high level clean competition.
Suits the Olympics as a spectacle as the event's aren't prescribed, so each host can use whatever they like as the apparatus to fit the city's history/theme.
It needs a high level clean competition.
Nah, other sports should adopt Strongman's level of honesty instead.
It's such a refreshing change being able to watch a competition without wondering if the winner is on PEDs or not.
It would also help kill the myth the IOC likes to promote that elite level sport is somehow healthy and not, in fact, severely damaging for most athletes physical and mental health.
Just replace it with a worldwide version of Takeshi’s Castle. Craig Charles to do the voiceover. Not like the updated version on Prime.
That or just make it entirely unprofessional. Anyone can enter any sports category with the one caveat that they can’t have any experience whatsoever in their chosen sport. It would be so entertaining
Nah, other sports should adopt Strongman’s level of honesty instead.
It's not honest though. It has all the usual anti-doping codes, just no testing. It's about as honest as cycling through the Riss and Armstrong years.
It should be the sport for tall people who didn't suit power/weight lifting. In reality it's just a question of who can afford the most / has the best response to Tren.
I am not about to start a furore by stating which sports shouldn't be in the Olympics, but I would like to see the following included:
Tiddlywinks
Kerbies
Spot
In. Spaffing hard earned tax payers cash on pointless purchases from a company run by your friends.
Out. The BBC paying literally anyone who can speak to go and comment on Olympic sport . And talk over the actual ex Olympians who are in the room . Chris Packham v Chris Hoy iirc . I could have done a better job having actually ridden pursuit on an olympic velodrome
It’s about as honest as cycling through the Riss and Armstrong years.
I don't think I've ever seen a strongman competitor call a press conference to tell the world they have never taken any form of PEDs.
Or to then go off and attempt to destroy the lives of anyone who says they might be telling porkies.
I really like strongman. For whatever reason it seems to have hit the sweetspot in popularity where the competitions are awesome but it's not so popular that any of the big governing bodies are going to show any interest in ruining helping govern it.
Possibly the fact that it is a given that every competitor is on a decent regime of PEDs helps keep the blazers away. Long may it continue.
Also, I wouldn't be so sure the current years are any cleaner than the Armstrong years. No matter how many stories get pumped out about how modern cyclists have figured out how to take in more calories and that is why the average speeds are so high.
So, as a start point, anything that’s scored subjectively and/or judged is out. Dressage, boxing, gymnastics figure skating, skateboarding, surfing and most martial arts all gone.
As I said in the other thread boxing is only judged if nobody gets knocked out . Perhaps they could allow it in but only every other Olympics to compensate for the need to sometimes rely on judges
Can't have Cx in the winter. It isn't a snow sport. Yes it may snow but it does that at footy matches.
The problem with boxing is the corruption. In theory the scoring should be unanimous, or at least within the margins of some ref's having a better view of some of the punches than others.
It's like the long jump, or weight lifting are "judged".
Maybe they need to move into the 21st century and put accelerometers and pressure sensors in the gloves / vests to get an actual count of the punches.
Can’t have Cx in the winter. It isn’t a snow sport. Yes it may snow but it does that at footy matches.
There's a god argument for putting MTB in the winter Olympics as it's in the mountains and half the hosts have to use fake snow anyway.
As I said in the other thread boxing is only judged if nobody gets knocked out .
Wouldn't have to be a knock out. Falls could be counted. Or just have it that you're not allowed to touch the ropes. Counting the number of touches could be easily automated.
That thing with the lifting big stone balls onto wooden barrels
That’s about as ridiculous a suggestion as my idea of a ball game played on a round or oval pitch with one single goal in the centre. I have yet to work out the shape of the goal, or which way it would be orientated, or in fact the number of teams on the pitch at any one time, but I’ve been told, in the pub a long time ago, that this is STUPID! By a football fan who thinks that the offside rule is really complicated. 😀
should surely be a circular goal - in the form of a hole in the same plane as the “pitch” like a giant golf hole? You may want to consider an element of jeopardy by having a steep fall for players who get too close to the edge fall (out their game - or to their death if you prefer!).
It is odd that there’s no CX but also no Cross Country (running). if you want running in a more interesting format than round a 400m oval or multiple hours for a marathon - then sprint orienteering could probably make reasonable telly (better than weight lifting, or sailing) with modern drone technology! That’s a sport that would probably be much more popular if it was in the olympics.
Football...but played with a tennis ball on a playground tarmac. Jumpers for goalposts obviously. Crucially, there'll be a French vocab test (your could funk it up a bit with different languages) half an hour before kickoff and any player that doesn't pass has to stay in until they've written out their mistakes 10 times each missing the start. Each team must have one kid player on the spectrum who plays the whole game with their backpack on.
PEDs - shouldn't be a problem. A group of pretty girls decoys will march up and down the sidelines and any player with raised testosterone levels will slope off mid game to chat them up.
then sprint orienteering could probably make reasonable telly (better than weight lifting, or sailing) with modern drone technology! That’s a sport that would probably be much more popular if it was in the olympics.
Will be "fun" watching the media ignore the urban World Championships in Edinburgh this July.
And this my freinds is why i read STW; good old fashioned 'stupid banter'
the gold medal goes to...
Mother's net is the likely silver i guess?
Bronze goes to?
Train hard, fight easy, people!
It’s like the long jump, or weight lifting are “judged”.
Maybe they need to move into the 21st century and put accelerometers and pressure sensors in the gloves / vests to get an actual count of the punches.<br /><br />
I’m not sure where long-jump fits into this, there’s nothing ‘subjective’ about it, it’s clearly measured and judged on those measurements - there’s a clay strip on the takeoff board which shows where the athlete has gone past the jump limit, and it’s perfectly clear where their landing is in the sandpit, if they make a clean landing or fall backwards they leave a measurable mark. Much the same as high-jump ot pole-vault - they knock the bar off.
All of the field sports are measurable, there’s nothing subjective about how they are judged.
Boasting. It's harder than it looks. I used to train with pros, could have been a contender but I boasted a guy to death (his head exploded) and I figured retiring was the decent thing to do.