# Olympic sports you would like to see added... **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [February 28, 2000, 8:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/olympic-sports-you-would-like-to-see-added/14154 "2000-02-28T20:45:00Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![PurpleCrackwhore](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/9fc348/32.png) [@PurpleCrackwhore](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PurpleCrackwhore)\ **Post date:** [February 28, 2000, 8:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/olympic-sports-you-would-like-to-see-added/14154/1 "2000-02-28T20:45:00Z")
Myself, I would like to see a watersliding event at the summer olympics. What other ones would you add if you could? * * * I really try to be good but it just isn’t in my nature! ---
**Author:** ![Mullinator](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/c2a13f/32.png) [@Mullinator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mullinator)\ **Post date:** [February 28, 2000, 9:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/olympic-sports-you-would-like-to-see-added/14154/2 "2000-02-28T21:04:00Z")
Hide and seek. If that fails, naked twister. * * * Have you voted for your favorite, huggable Mullinator today? ---
**Author:** ![Max\_Torque](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/e9bcb4/32.png) [@Max\_Torque](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Max_Torque)\ **Post date:** [February 28, 2000, 9:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/olympic-sports-you-would-like-to-see-added/14154/3 "2000-02-28T21:08:00Z")
Some years back, some friends and I came up with new sports by combining two or more old sports. Our favorite (and Greg Lougainis’s favorite too, no doubt): **Greco-Roman Diving.** A combination of wrestling and diving. Would make diving MUCH more watchable, if the diver had to fight for his very life… ---
**Author:** ![Shayna](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/shayna/32/17976_2.png) [@Shayna](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shayna)\ **Post date:** [February 28, 2000, 9:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/olympic-sports-you-would-like-to-see-added/14154/4 "2000-02-28T21:13:00Z")
Tandem surfing. That is so cool to watch - kindof like figure skating on the water. And if they won’t add that, then the least they could do is offer naked wrestling. 😃 * * * “How wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single moment before starting to improve the world.” - Anne Frank ---
**Author:** ![Enright3](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/enright3/32/2897_2.png) [@Enright3](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Enright3)\ **Post date:** [February 28, 2000, 9:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/olympic-sports-you-would-like-to-see-added/14154/5 "2000-02-28T21:21:00Z")
How about Olympic ‘Guess a number between 1 and 10’? New and Improved Enright3 ---
**Author:** ![NickyLarson](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/b2d939/32.png) [@NickyLarson](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/NickyLarson)\ **Post date:** [February 28, 2000, 9:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/olympic-sports-you-would-like-to-see-added/14154/6 "2000-02-28T21:29:00Z")
How about miniature golf? * * * If it jams, force it; if it breaks, it needed replacing anyway. ---
**Author:** ![Globe-trotter](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/cab0a1/32.png) [@Globe-trotter](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Globe-trotter)\ **Post date:** [February 28, 2000, 9:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/olympic-sports-you-would-like-to-see-added/14154/7 "2000-02-28T21:34:00Z")
Bar hopping. * * * “I thought: opera, how hard can it be? Songs. Pretty girls dancing. Nice scenery. Lots of people handing over cash. Got to be better than the cut-throat world of yoghurt, I thought.” - Seldom Bucket ---
**Author:** ![DougC](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/7feea3/32.png) [@DougC](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DougC)\ **Post date:** [February 28, 2000, 9:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/olympic-sports-you-would-like-to-see-added/14154/8 "2000-02-28T21:45:00Z")
- - - I’d like to see the whole event in it’s entirety televised, as a requirement for any broadcasting rights _at all_. A few years back the US women’s shooting team won the gold in one of the competitions, but in the US, none of the shooting sports are televised, ever, even at two o’clock in the goddamn morning, even when the country’s own team comes in first. It’s sad to say that it didn’t surprise me, but it’s still a total crock of shit. Most of the classical competitions are “summarized” during the “Olympic Sports Report”, though I realize that this is the olympic comittee’s own fault as they continue to add new, stupid “X-games” to boost revenues. - - - I’d _really_ like to see the Olympics separated into two different events, the first being figure skating, gymnastics, and all the “modern” crap- the “California-pretender” sports like extreme skiing. | I’m not knocking figure skating and gymnastics; only pointing out that they seem to get a disproportionate share of air time. If you scan the audience during either of these, you see that it has a majority of twelve-year-old girls, which would seem to indicate that it isn’t very appealing to other demographics. - MC ---
**Author:** ![MadPoet](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/8c91f0/32.png) [@MadPoet](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MadPoet)\ **Post date:** [February 28, 2000, 9:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/olympic-sports-you-would-like-to-see-added/14154/9 "2000-02-28T21:46:00Z")
Roshambo * * * [http://www.madpoet.com](http://www.madpoet.com) Clerks - Just because they serve you doesn’t mean they like you. ---
**Author:** ![TheUnforgiven](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/e480ec/32.png) [@TheUnforgiven](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TheUnforgiven)\ **Post date:** [February 28, 2000, 10:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/olympic-sports-you-would-like-to-see-added/14154/10 "2000-02-28T22:10:00Z")
Paper, rock, scissors. ---
**Author:** ![Arnold\_Winkelried](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/3d9bf3/32.png) [@Arnold\_Winkelried](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Arnold_Winkelried)\ **Post date:** [February 28, 2000, 10:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/olympic-sports-you-would-like-to-see-added/14154/11 "2000-02-28T22:24:00Z")
> [@](#): > > Originally posted by Mullinator: > **Hide and seek.** No, too scary. Did you see on Monty Python the man that was hiding for 11 years in the [Olympic Hide and Seek finals](http://www.montypython.net/scripts/hideseek.php3)? At my dance studio, all of the instructors are excited about ballroom dancing being a demonstration event at the next Olympics. I’ve never said so out loud (for fear of being booted out of the studio), but I think that dancing does **not** belong at the Olympics. However, they should include ping pong. ---
**Author:** ![BigRoryG](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/f07891/32.png) [@BigRoryG](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BigRoryG)\ **Post date:** [February 28, 2000, 10:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/olympic-sports-you-would-like-to-see-added/14154/12 "2000-02-28T22:28:00Z")
There’s so many excellent sprots that simply don’t get the recognition they deserve, like football, rugby and fort-building. Let’s not forget marathon ICQ and rick beerpouring. Maybe they should make the SDMB an Olympic sport. THey could use Bricker’s challenges. * * * “Mmmmm, 64 slices of American Cheeeeese” – Homer Simpson If you need a graphic solution, [http:\ alk.to\Piglet](http://talk.to%5CPiglet) ---
**Author:** ![WillGolfForFood](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/82dd89/32.png) [@WillGolfForFood](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WillGolfForFood)\ **Post date:** [February 28, 2000, 11:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/olympic-sports-you-would-like-to-see-added/14154/13 "2000-02-28T23:56:00Z")
Full Contact Karaoke. ---
**Author:** ![Sealemon88](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/c68b51/32.png) [@Sealemon88](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sealemon88)\ **Post date:** [February 29, 2000, 3:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/olympic-sports-you-would-like-to-see-added/14154/14 "2000-02-29T03:30:00Z")
Dodgeball. Red Light Green Light Tightrope Walking. “Fluffing”. wet T-shirt tap dancing. Slapfighting with trout. * * * You say “cheesy” like that’s a **BAD** thing. ---
**Author:** ![Bluepony](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/3d9bf3/32.png) [@Bluepony](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bluepony)\ **Post date:** [February 29, 2000, 3:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/olympic-sports-you-would-like-to-see-added/14154/15 "2000-02-29T03:31:00Z")
Combine synchronized swimming and water polo. Or take the metal targets out of the biathlon and just have the athletes take shots at each other. Last one standing wins. I think I’m watching too much WWF again. * * * _…send lawyers, guns, and money…_ ``` Warren Zevon ``` ---
**Author:** ![salinqmind](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/3ec8ea/32.png) [@salinqmind](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/salinqmind)\ **Post date:** [February 29, 2000, 3:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/olympic-sports-you-would-like-to-see-added/14154/16 "2000-02-29T03:36:00Z")
Definitely synchronized swimming…with MEN, baby, yeah, MEN! In little tiny Speedos. ---
**Author:** ![AWB](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/bb73d2/32.png) [@AWB](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AWB)\ **Post date:** [February 29, 2000, 3:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/olympic-sports-you-would-like-to-see-added/14154/17 "2000-02-29T03:39:00Z")
Bowling! * * * Wrong thinking is punished, right thinking is just as swiftly rewarded. You’ll find it an effective combination. ---
**Author:** ![PurpleCrackwhore](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/9fc348/32.png) [@PurpleCrackwhore](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PurpleCrackwhore)\ **Post date:** [February 29, 2000, 3:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/olympic-sports-you-would-like-to-see-added/14154/18 "2000-02-29T03:43:00Z")
How about Super-shooter water gun fights… and paintball! yeah! that’s the ticket! * * * I really try to be good but it just isn’t in my nature! ---
**Author:** ![Milossarian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/3ec8ea/32.png) [@Milossarian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Milossarian)\ **Post date:** [February 29, 2000, 3:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/olympic-sports-you-would-like-to-see-added/14154/19 "2000-02-29T03:48:00Z")
How 'bout keg stands? For those of you who don’t know, you place both hands firmly on the beer keg, two friends lift your legs into the air until you are basically standing on your head, one guy puts the beer tapper on full pour and another guy pumps the tapper and you drink tills ya can’t stands it no more. I once did a 21-second-er at my alma mater, Central Michigan University (once listed as one of the top 100 party schools in the U.S. by _Playboy_). I was all impressed with myself, until a woman then did a 24-second-er. Actually, what does you in is how cold the draft beer is. It freezes your innards. How 'bout billiards? Darts? (The Irish would kill us) I also like the idea of synchronized swimming with some opposing country trying to mess it up, cannon-balling and attempting to drown the participants. * * * “You should tell the truth, expose the lies and live in the moment.” - Bill Hicks ---
**Author:** ![Kyla](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/eada6e/32.png) [@Kyla](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kyla)\ **Post date:** [February 29, 2000, 3:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/olympic-sports-you-would-like-to-see-added/14154/20 "2000-02-29T03:48:00Z")
> [@](#): > > However, they should include ping pong. Ping pong IS in the Olympics. They call it table tennis, though. I recommend Calvinball. Also sliding on metal slides on hot summer days, that would be a good sport. * * * ~Harborina “Don’t Do It.” [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/olympic-sports-you-would-like-to-see-added/14154.md?page=2)