Olympic sports we should have

cough cough Wallabies cough cough

Well, this isn’t a suggestion for a new Olympic sport, but rather a way to revive an existing one, men’s figure skating.

Now I know Scot Hammel is a swell guy and all but to tell the truth I don’t know very many people who are all that excited about the sport, and of those I do know none of them are male.

They should take a hint from the biathlon, where folks cross country ski until they find a target, pull a gun and shoot it.

Now just imagine those men in tights doing pirouettes on the ice to the theme from love story, landing a triple Lutts, pulling a Glock and squeezing of a round. I can hear the commentators know “He caught that landing perfect but he missed the bulls eye, that will cost him with the American judge.”

Oh, the hell with IROC! Let’s get right to the nub here folks! There’d be no happier crowd (worldwide) than watching the Nepal NASCAR team whip a little fanny! Just think of Team Russia in a specially perpared Zil tearing little Jeffie G a new restrictor plate.

Leave the Olympics alone…unless you’re willing to advocate nude darts…

Considering the skills of some Russian engineers, I’d love to see them work on a NASCAR vehicle. Man, that thing’ll take a corner…

Realisitically (and sticking to actual sports), the Olympics should have four-wall handball. Now that’s a game of skill.

Hell, I even have a slogan: “No weeny-ass rackets for these boys - just hands and balls!”

Now that snowboarding is an Olympic sport, it would be cool to combine it with rifle shooting - competitors would have to make it to the bottom while hitting targets placed along the course.

They should play underwater Ice Hockey, with SCUBA tanks

Sex.

urban1 already said that, 9 or 10 posts up. :wink:
Peace,
mangeorge

Pie Eating. We need to award people who can eat shit-loads of pie.
~Kittie
mmm…pie…

Masturbation, with scores based upon the combination of volume, distance and viscosity.

Gold for England.
Silver for France.
Bronze for Italy.

Paper, Scissors Stone.

Self-mutilation game. This is sick humour. You have ‘booths’ and a way of measuring pain. The conestant who causes themselves the most amount of pain is the winner. But here’s the clincher, they can’t see each other so they don’t know how much pain to inflict on themselves. You could get someone cutting of their leg when his opponent only bruised his arm.

genius.

On first reading this post, I thought you were suggesting using the men’s figure skating as the target in the biathlon.

Could be very interesting, as well as quickly weeding out the less agile competitors.

KICKBALL is an obvious choice. Long overlooked international potential.
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Mangeorge IIRC, doesn’t the whole DEFCON scale run from DEFCON 5 (total peace) to DEFCON 1 (nuclear war)? So, the higher medals would be awarded for getting the scale to a lower number. At least that’s the way I remember it from that classic, War Games.
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Another vote for rugby here. It’s exciting to watch, requires true athleticism, and it’s already a worldwide phenomenon.

My interpretation of the Summer Biathalon would be like this:

You swim 200 meters, you get out of the pool and grill a steak. Then you jump back in the pool and swim another 200 meters. After that you can take off the cross country skis.

Olympic Streaking. It used to be spontaneous, but has been slipping of late. Each country sends a mixed team of ten exhibitionists to try and rack the most time spent and spectators shocked, with penalties each time the local fuzz busts 'em. I’d pay for the Triplecast if that was on. It’d make tight-ass countries like the PRC and the USA a lot less anxious to have the Olympics from now on, too.

You’re absolutely right, Tommy the Cat.
I’m a little (lot) slow on this military stuff, so I checled, right here;
http://www.fas.org/nuke/guide/usa/c3i/defcon.htm
I don’t really care, as long as they do it nekkid. :slight_smile:
Peace,
mangeorge

I’ll second the nekkid part.

Computer games! If they are going to add chess and bridge, why not? I bet a televised deathmatch between the world’s greatest Quake III players would get great ratings.