# 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:** 2
**Author:** ![GraceTX](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/c4cdca/32.png) [@GraceTX](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GraceTX)\ **Post date:** [February 29, 2000, 4:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/olympic-sports-you-would-like-to-see-added/14154/21 "2000-02-29T04:19:00Z")
I’d like to see midget tetherball. * * * “I love being married. It’s so great to find that one special person you want to annoy for the rest of your life.” ---
**Author:** ![Jo3sh](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/a587f6/32.png) [@Jo3sh](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jo3sh)\ **Post date:** [February 29, 2000, 4:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/olympic-sports-you-would-like-to-see-added/14154/22 "2000-02-29T04:24:00Z")
Javelin catching. * * * A committee is a lifeform with six or more legs and no brain. ---
**Author:** ![Sylence](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/b19c9b/32.png) [@Sylence](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sylence)\ **Post date:** [February 29, 2000, 4:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/olympic-sports-you-would-like-to-see-added/14154/23 "2000-02-29T04:25:00Z")
Jousting. – Sylence * * * If a bird doesn’t sing, I’ll wait until it sings. - Tokugawa Ieyasu ---
**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, 4:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/olympic-sports-you-would-like-to-see-added/14154/24 "2000-02-29T04:27:00Z")
Jello wrestling * * * I really try to be good but it just isn’t in my nature! ---
**Author:** ![NickyLarson](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/b2d939/32.png) [@NickyLarson](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/NickyLarson)\ **Post date:** [February 29, 2000, 4:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/olympic-sports-you-would-like-to-see-added/14154/25 "2000-02-29T04:29:00Z")
**Jarts** * * * If it jams, force it; if it breaks, it needed replacing anyway. ---
**Author:** ![NickyLarson](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/b2d939/32.png) [@NickyLarson](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/NickyLarson)\ **Post date:** [February 29, 2000, 4:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/olympic-sports-you-would-like-to-see-added/14154/26 "2000-02-29T04:30:00Z")
**Taget Jarts!** 😃 * * * If it jams, force it; if it breaks, it needed replacing anyway. ---
**Author:** ![NickyLarson](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/b2d939/32.png) [@NickyLarson](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/NickyLarson)\ **Post date:** [February 29, 2000, 4:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/olympic-sports-you-would-like-to-see-added/14154/27 "2000-02-29T04:33:00Z")
**Target Jarts!** (did that **triple** post?) :o * * * If it jams, force it; if it breaks, it needed replacing anyway. ---
**Author:** ![techchick68](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ea5d25/32.png) [@techchick68](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/techchick68)\ **Post date:** [February 29, 2000, 4:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/olympic-sports-you-would-like-to-see-added/14154/28 "2000-02-29T04:47:00Z")
Three Legged Racing OH and of course The Egg Toss ---
**Author:** ![Kestrel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/67e7ee/32.png) [@Kestrel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kestrel)\ **Post date:** [February 29, 2000, 5:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/olympic-sports-you-would-like-to-see-added/14154/29 "2000-02-29T05:19:00Z")
Regimental kilted basketball would be intersting to watch. “jump guys jump!” Kestrel ---
**Author:** ![Cowboy\_Greg](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/7ba0ec/32.png) [@Cowboy\_Greg](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cowboy_Greg)\ **Post date:** [February 29, 2000, 6:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/olympic-sports-you-would-like-to-see-added/14154/30 "2000-02-29T06:49:00Z")
Synchronized chainsaw juggling. _That’ll_ bring the ratings up! * * * Shared pain is lessened; shared joy is increased. ---
**Author:** ![Coldfire](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/a587f6/32.png) [@Coldfire](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Coldfire)\ **Post date:** [February 29, 2000, 9:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/olympic-sports-you-would-like-to-see-added/14154/31 "2000-02-29T09:24:00Z")
Dopers who watch the BBC might now this: **Robot Wars!!** That would RULE. Check it out: [http://www.robotwars.co.uk/intelligence.html](http://www.robotwars.co.uk/intelligence.html) * * * **Coldfire** * * * _ **"You know how complex women are"** _ - Neil Peart, **Rush** (1993) ---
**Author:** ![evilbeth](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/evilbeth/32/2268_2.png) [@evilbeth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/evilbeth)\ **Post date:** [February 29, 2000, 9:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/olympic-sports-you-would-like-to-see-added/14154/32 "2000-02-29T09:29:00Z")
The Bricker Challenge! * * * I have a hobby. I have the world’s largest collection of seashells. I keep it scattered on beaches all over the world. Maybe you’ve seen some of it. ---
**Author:** ![upstatic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/ce73a5/32.png) [@upstatic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/upstatic)\ **Post date:** [February 29, 2000, 10:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/olympic-sports-you-would-like-to-see-added/14154/33 "2000-02-29T10:39:00Z")
The Olympics sucks. That’s a clear and valid statement. The sports that they are adding are hardly sports. I wouldn’t be surprised if the added SCRABBLE in a few years! * * * R.J.D. ---
**Author:** ![upstatic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/ce73a5/32.png) [@upstatic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/upstatic)\ **Post date:** [February 29, 2000, 10:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/olympic-sports-you-would-like-to-see-added/14154/34 "2000-02-29T10:43:00Z")
Why don’t they add DRIFTWOOD STARING or VIRTUAL WEIGHT LIFTING or TYPING(that way the fastest typers in the world can fight for secretary positions, imagine putting that on your resume) ---
**Author:** ![WIGGUM](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/ce7236/32.png) [@WIGGUM](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WIGGUM)\ **Post date:** [February 29, 2000, 12:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/olympic-sports-you-would-like-to-see-added/14154/35 "2000-02-29T12:45:00Z")
“Beer Bong Relays” “The Talk to the Hand, Not to the Face-Off” in which the “athletes” compete in a “Jerry Springeresque” dual of talking to the other competitors hands, and not their faces. Talking to the face will of course result in a foul and point deductions. ---
**Author:** ![SqrlCub](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ea5d25/32.png) [@SqrlCub](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SqrlCub)\ **Post date:** [February 29, 2000, 4:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/olympic-sports-you-would-like-to-see-added/14154/36 "2000-02-29T16:18:00Z")
I think they should start adding card games like poker, cribbage, bridge, etc. But the crowning achievement should be [1000 Blank White Cards](http://www.trouserarousal.net/cards/) and is the card game equivalent of Calvinball. I would actually like to play it some day. HUGS! Sqrl * * * [SqrlCub’s Arizona Adventure](http://boards.straightdope.com/ubb/Forum4/HTML/005351.html) ---
**Author:** ![G.B.H.Hornswoggler](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/c67d28/32.png) [@G.B.H.Hornswoggler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/G.B.H.Hornswoggler)\ **Post date:** [February 29, 2000, 8:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/olympic-sports-you-would-like-to-see-added/14154/37 "2000-02-29T20:18:00Z")
Synchronized Snivelling Master-Class Tech Support Quantum Indetermancy (aka Teasing Schroedinger’s Cat) Speed-Reading (imagine the tension!) and, in slightly less silly categories: Caber Tossing and those he-men log sports ESPN 2 always seems to show (you know, like “hack at this giant tree trunk with an axe, shove a board in, jump up on board to hack away again to place another board, then hack yet a third time until you sever the top of the stump” – I know it has a name, but I’ll be damned if I know what that is.) * * * …but when you get blue, and you’ve lost all your dreams, there’s nothing like a campfire and a can of beans! ---
**Author:** ![Doctor\_Jackson](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/doctor_jackson/32/32_2.png) [@Doctor\_Jackson](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Doctor_Jackson)\ **Post date:** [February 29, 2000, 9:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/olympic-sports-you-would-like-to-see-added/14154/38 "2000-02-29T21:25:00Z")
Troll roping Naked hockey Full contact moto-cross Identify the dead thing (my favorite roadkill game) * * * The overwhelming majority of people have more than the average (mean) number of legs. – E. Grebenik ---
**Author:** ![Demo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/demo/32/8472_2.png) [@Demo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Demo)\ **Post date:** [February 29, 2000, 9:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/olympic-sports-you-would-like-to-see-added/14154/39 "2000-02-29T21:33:00Z")
Along the same lines as Milossarian, **Tang**. * * * "Don’t bother to pack your bags, Or your map. We won’t need them where we’re goin’, We’re goin’ where the wind is blowin’. ---
**Author:** ![Channing\_Idaho\_Banks](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/channing_idaho_banks/32/250_2.png) [@Channing\_Idaho\_Banks](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Channing_Idaho_Banks)\ **Post date:** [August 6, 2016, 7:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/olympic-sports-you-would-like-to-see-added/14154/40 "2016-08-06T19:06:07Z")
I always thought that sling throwing should be an Olympic sport. Any kid can practice the sling, anywhere, all you need is a piece of leather and a bag of rocks. You can have contests for accuracy, speed, distance, even team sling. The sling is even older than archery. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/olympic-sports-you-would-like-to-see-added/14154.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/olympic-sports-you-would-like-to-see-added/14154.md?page=3)