New Olympic proposals

[Undertoad]

OK they do have steeplechase, where you have to jump over something and into a puddle. Somebody probably came up with that on one of these kinds of threads.

Running while smoking a cigarette, must be consumed down to the butt by the finish line.

I like this, and it should naturally be extended to relay. There could be two kinds of relay. One where each runner smokes down their butt and then uses it to light the next runner's butt. And another where they just exchange it, in usual relay fashion.

Walking, another good event, probably came from one of these threads.

The whole idea of corporate sponsorship, getting so controversial, I say we take it to the next level. Winston cigarette relay. Fiji Water swimming. Craftsman hammer throw. Frisbee discus. Biggus Discus!

Also, there are Summer and Winter Olympics but no Spring and Autumn Olympics. There's running with a light jacket on. Or hey - Arab Spring Olympics, where you run 800M with a Syrian sharpshooter trying to peg you from atop the torch tower.

[glatt]

Originally Posted by Undertoad

each runner smokes down their butt and then uses it to light the next runner's butt.

I love it! This is just like the Biathlon, where they ski like mad and then have to drop down to one knee and get their breathing and shaking under control so they can squeeze off a shot with some accuracy. Lighting one butt off another is going to take some focus. You can't be sprinting while doing it.

[Beest]

Monster was positing the other day that they should go old school, i.e. naked.

What with all the stuff about fancy suits being an advantage, for swimmer and runners, maybe that woudl cut out some of the controversey.

[Spexxvet]

Originally Posted by Beest

Monster was positing the other day that they should go old school, i.e. naked.

What with all the stuff about fancy suits being an advantage, for swimmer and runners, maybe that woudl cut out some of the controversey.

Certainly would end all the "who has the hottest bod" discussion.

[orthodoc]

Originally Posted by Spexxvet

Certainly would end all the "who has the hottest bod" discussion.

In fact it'd attract a whole new audience demographic! Ratings would soar!

Seriously, I'd like to see sports done by nationality ... Scots in tiny kilts worn traditionally , heaving cabers around; Russians and Finns in the altogether running in and out of saunas beating each other with birch sprigs and leaving the slowest competitor to the wolves ... Greeks running marathons and collapsing, to be revived by muses ... hmm, what else? I know - Frenchmen/women and Spaniards in wine-drinking and flamenco competitions - all naked, of course ...