Off Topic - ish... your favourite or worst olympic sports

Eric the Viking · Post by **Eric the Viking** » 16 Aug 2004, 16:03

Freiheit wrote:Shooting against running deers
Motorboatrace
Highjump for horses
Long jump for horses

Now running against shooting deer, that might be interesting - "Oh, and the British runner has just been gutshot by the Swedish roebuck! It certainly doesn't look good for him..."

Synchronized Rhythmic Motor Boat Racing might be interesting...

The horse jumping might actually be cool - they can surely longjump much farther than a human, and there'd also be less whining (albeit more whinnying) in the post-jump interviews with the 2nd and 3rd-place finishers.

Seriously, I think that irrespective of some of the really daft "sports" that are in currently, it could be much worse. For instance, the Las Vegas casino league (or some outfit like that) has been lobbying very hard to get *Poker* (that's right, a card game) included as an Olympic event. I shit you not.

I also hope we don't see any of those X-games styles "sports" included - I mean, grown men riding skateboards and children's bicycles is OK as timefiller on ESPN2, but as an Olympic sport? Please, no.

Oh, and among the martial disciplines - Tae Kwon Do is disgustingly pussified. Craploads of body padding and emphasis on flashy kicks rather than blows that really hurt - hell, it's way worse than boxing, because at least in boxing you can hurt your opponent with a hard body shot even if the stupid judges don't count it as a scoring blow. In Tae Kwon Pussy Do they wear frickin' body armor in addition to the headgear. You could unload a full clip of an Uzi on a guy and not hurt him.

J · Post by J » 17 Aug 2004, 06:26

gotta say the athleitcs is the most intriguing part of the olympics for me (amir khan aside) as for rubbish sport, I mean we just won a medal in syncronised 10 metre diving, for effs sake what is all that about?

probably invented by two blokes get pissed go for a swim and fall in at the same time.

not a sport just midly enjoyable piss up on holiday!

DavidPayne · Post by **DavidPayne** » 17 Aug 2004, 06:34

Baseball.

BubiScholz · Post by **BubiScholz** » 17 Aug 2004, 07:01

J wrote:gotta say the athleitcs is the most intriguing part of the olympics for me (amir khan aside) as for rubbish sport, I mean we just won a medal in syncronised 10 metre diving, for effs sake what is all that about?

probably invented by two blokes get pissed go for a swim and fall in at the same time.

not a sport just midly enjoyable piss up on holiday!

you are damn right, germany also won a medal in men 3m diving. seems to be that this is the only sport gay men can practice......

J · Post by J » 17 Aug 2004, 07:03

just seems very odd managing to fall of a peice of wood the same time as your mate should be considered a sport haha, i mean how dull would that be to practice doing.

DavidPayne · Post by **DavidPayne** » 17 Aug 2004, 07:35

Sychronised bombing?

Is that really a sport....

What about heavy petting?

Loftgroov · Post by **Loftgroov** » 17 Aug 2004, 08:04

DavidPayne wrote:Sychronised bombing?

Is that really a sport....

What about heavy petting?

Thats the only thing the Brits would get gold for!!

One fo the worst sports to watch is Fencing. I thought it might be ok, but bugger me it's boring.... they just ...don't do anything!!! Likewise Judo.

The 10m air pistol isn't exactly gripping either

BubiScholz · Post by **BubiScholz** » 17 Aug 2004, 08:08

what about "synchronised blow-jobbing" or "multi gangbanging"

Loftgroov · Post by **Loftgroov** » 17 Aug 2004, 08:11

BubiScholz wrote:what about "synchronised blow-jobbing" or "multi gangbanging"

The Sun - "Jordan wins gold at a canter!"

BubiScholz · Post by **BubiScholz** » 17 Aug 2004, 08:55

i always knew that canadians are gay

neil r · Post by **neil r** » 23 Aug 2004, 05:27

just caught the womens 20k 'walk'. kin hell!! whats that about then?

REAL_DEAL · Post by **REAL_DEAL** » 23 Aug 2004, 05:29

olympic walking, what the hell is up with that

Freiheit · Post by **Freiheit** » 23 Aug 2004, 06:22

Danish sailor killed british tourist guide in car accident

BubiScholz · Post by **BubiScholz** » 23 Aug 2004, 06:50

Freiheit wrote:Danish sailor killed british tourist guide in car accident

i bet the scandinavian was drunk like hell. typical scandinavian. when they are outside of their country they drink "cheap" beer till the doctor comes.

Freiheit · Post by **Freiheit** » 23 Aug 2004, 06:53

The tourist guide was to blame and Niclas Holm is in the competitions (currently in 2nd place, star Boat)

Matchfixer · Post by **Matchfixer** » 23 Aug 2004, 07:44

bollocks wrote:Greek athlete under suspicion of drugs (she's been accused of taking 'attractive pills'. We all know Greek women are NOT this good looking)

She set an olympic record in the semi of the 400m hurdles yesterday. I'm very suspicious about this.

J · Post by J » 23 Aug 2004, 08:00

speaking of which the new 100 m champ looks clean huh

bult like a bloody body builder with a opne year ban in the past for testing positive for amphetamines.

Came fomr no-where, more or less unheard of prior to this season.

Hmm smells a bit fishy to me.

I could of course just be a bitter twisted individual but I wouldnt be surprised if he does test postive again at some point .

glittermonkey · Post by **glittermonkey** » 23 Aug 2004, 08:01

Matchfixer wrote:
bollocks wrote:Greek athlete under suspicion of drugs (she's been accused of taking 'attractive pills'. We all know Greek women are NOT this good looking)

She set an olympic record in the semi of the 400m hurdles yesterday. I'm very suspicious about this.

Exactly. An Olympic record for a previously unheralded athlete isn't totally unheard of, but those drugs-testers will surely be analysing her urine as we speak.

MightyWarrior · Post by **MightyWarrior** » 23 Aug 2004, 08:05

Excuse me if I've missed this in the thread somewhere, but how did those two Greek sprinters get past the drugs test in Sydney, if everyone had suspicions at the time?

Freiheit · Post by **Freiheit** » 23 Aug 2004, 08:18

I think it was Michelle smith. First she competed for Ireland but didnt she change her nationality to dutch at one point?

The only olympic sport that I dont watch is dressage (its soooo boring)
The sport that surprised me the most is Archery, it was really exciting and a really good TV sport.