The olympics has included some pretty humorous competitions for some time now.

My wife sent me the bit about the man qualifying as a woman for weightlifting for some country’s Olympic team. I shrugged and said, “It’s a shame. You women had a good run. No woman will ever win physical feats against a human who’s chromosomes are programmed to <MALE HUMAN>.”

^^^^ New Zealand.

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Originally posted by Balzé Halzé:
^^^^ New Zealand.

It's a beautiful country and the inhabitants are nice, but they've got some screwy folks in charge there. (So do we . . . .)

flashguy

I think one year they shot live pigeons.

There also was an Olympic sport of 1 handed weight lifting as well as rope climbing. Like in gym class. And don’t forget the medal they gave out for kite flying.

Have no fear, I’m a lead pipe cinch to make the Rock Paper Scissors US team in 2024…

Let's petition the IOC to add the ancient New World team sport Pok A Tok (Mayan version) or Tlatchli (Aztec version).

Reportedly, they had men's teams and womens teams and co-ed teams, so it shouldn't be hard to slide in a few modern trans-thletes.

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Originally posted by RichardC:
Let's petition the IOC to add the ancient New World team sport Pok A Tok (Mayan version) or Tlatchli (Aztec version).

Reportedly, they had men's teams and womens teams and co-ed teams, so it shouldn't be hard to slide in a few modern trans-thletes.

It'll be pretty hard to find competitors willing take part in a 'sport' where the losers are clubbed to death using obsidian war clubs. Means that there can be no 'best-loser' play-offs.

Had to google it, weird or Odd Olympic Events

1 Rope Climbing - 1896 1906 1924 1932
2 Race Walking
3 Tug of War
4 Swimming Obstacle Course - 1900
5 Tandem Bicycle Sprint
6 Underwater Swimming
7 Hot Air Ballooning - 1900
8 Equestrian Dressage
9 Solo Synchronized Swimming
10 Town Planning 1928 to 1948
11 3000m Steeplechase (1896 - present) To me, this event just looks random. ...
12 Motor Boating (1908) Unsurprisingly this event didn't make it past one Olympic appearance.
13 Horse Long Jump (1900) ...
14 Horse High Jump (1900)
15 Trampoline
16 Badminton
17 Canoe Slalom
18 Canoe Sprint
19 Handball
20 Ping Pong aka Table Tennis
21 Live Pigeon Shooting
22 Croquet
23 Jeu de paume
24 Pelota or Jai Alai
25 Plunge for Distance
26 Running Deer Shooting

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Town Planning

Just had to google it myself. In addition to planning your ultimate city, apparently architecture, painting, literature, music and sculpture were also Olympic events at one time or another as well. The founder of the modern Olympics thought that the arts needed to be part of the celebration as much as athletic competition, so for a few decades these were competitive categories.

Wait.
Wait just a damn minute.
"MOTORBOATING."?

Heehee.HeeeeheeeeeeeHAWHAWHAW*cough*

Sorry.

I remember a book my dad had that was written by some comedian. He had a segment on how boring some Olympic sports were and ideas on how to fix them.
“On Syncronized Swimming: I dunno, throw a toaster in the pool I guess.”

Notice how all the trans atheletes compete as women and not men … big fucking clue right there huh.

Screw the Olympics. I lost interest when they refused to allow skydiving as an Olympic sport but allow the game of curling.




^^^^^ Yeah, thats a sport!

You're kidding.

Curling is very sporty, its a combination of shuffleboard and 3D Chess with elements of wrestling, bobsledding and Chinese Checkers.

Bruce Lee and Sun Tzu and Barney Oldfield would have been an awesome team.

So, this is a dude, competing with women. And he STILL didn't qualify for one of three spots. Time to quit, dude.

Curling? Any "sport" in which you can drink beer while umm sporting is not a sport.

None of these oddball things metioned in this thread should be Olympic events. That they are/were does not legitimize BMX as an Olympic event. All that is proven by the inclusion of these oddball evets is that members of the Olympic Committee sometimes make poor decisions based upon trends, political climate and the like.

Some of you guys want to get mad and take it personally that I and others are scoffing at the idea that peddling a little bike around a dirt track is somehow worthy of a place on the world stage. Well, you're just going to have to get mad.

And synchronized swimming? Please. Slow movements in a swimming pool. Oh, my, yes, that is so very worthy of Gold, Silver and Bronze, isn't it? Pathetic and laughable.

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Originally posted by RichardC:
Wait.
Wait just a damn minute.
"MOTORBOATING."?

Heehee.HeeeeheeeeeeeHAWHAWHAW*cough*

Sorry.

Now that's an Olympic event I'd watch

https://youtu.be/Vv368yWOSas

The thrill of victory, the agony of defeat.

I grew up hearing that every Saturday afternoon.

But, back to the topic. I've never met Chelsea Wolfe, but I don't like its attitude.

By the way, if you do a net search for images "Chelsea Wolfe", be sure your browser family safe filter is set to strict or at least moderate. My delicate constitution was severely shaken by images not meant to be seen by persons easily offended.

We aren’t even talking about BMX racing, it competes in Freestyle BMX. It’s gymnastics with a bicycle apparatus.

Babylon Bee:

Female Weightlifter Suffers Tragic Testicle Injury Just Weeks Before Tokyo Olympics

https://babylonbee.com/news/fe...efore-tokyo-olympics

WELLINGTON, NEW ZEALAND—100% totally female weightlifter Laurel Hubbard was forced to bid farewell to her Olympic dreams yesterday after a tragic accident left her with a severely lacerated testicle. Hubbard would have been the first transgender woman to compete in the Olympics.

The injury is not life-threatening, but doctors have advised Hubbard that she needs to refrain from heavy lifting for at least six to eight weeks as her injury heals. Obviously, that means Olympic weightlifting is off the table.

Hubbard was something of a controversial figure at this year’s games given that she was born a biological male and competed as a male weightlifter until 2013. Many critics argued that this gave her an unfair advantage compared to female weightlifters, but Hubbard says that’s ridiculous.

“Sure, there are some biological differences like bone density and muscle strength between the sexes,” Hubbard said. “But none of those gives me an unfair advantage in weightlifting, which is really more about finesse and technique!”

Hubbard said while she's disappointed she won’t be able to live out her Olympic dreams this year, that’s just the way it goes. “Sometimes your testicles get in the way,” Hubbard said. “That’s just something we gals have to deal with.”

^^^^^^

Does the Onion even try to compete with this?