Most of us are not world class athletes, but if you had to pick an event to try out for, what would it be?
I’m nearing 70 so the physical stuff is way out, but I might do semi-OK in the shooting events. I have a 12 year background of competitive shooting. I think with a good Beretta and a few months of practice I could tryout for the trap event. If my eyes were younger, maybe the prone rifle.
Dennis
Trap shooting or Skeet. Have guns for each.
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I like to imagine that there’s an alternate universe version of me that stuck with Judo, and made it to the Olympics…
The flat water kayakers would leave me far, far behind.
But less far behind than I’d be left (metaphorically and literally) by the hurdlers, the cyclists, the triathletes, the pole vaulters, the gymnasts, the divers, the soccer players, the volleyballers, the sailors, the synchronized swimmers, the horse operators, the BMX folks, the archers, the weightlifters, the boxers, the fencers, and, well, pretty much everybody else…
I’m a marathon runner, so that would be a natural choice. I’m nowhere close to world-class, but at least I’d finish in less than twice the time as the winners.
I envy the swimmers, even the worst one…I envy. I wish I could do it. But, it is nothing more than a pipe dream.
Handcycling-Paralympics.
I’ll get smoked.
The opening parade.
Hey, that’s an Olympic event!
At my age, probably golf. I don’t ride horses or sail.
I’d only finish 30 meters behind the winner in the 100m sprint, though.
Curling?
Back in the day…a long time ago…Long jump. Now-a-days, I’d be world class at rebooting some servers after power surge event that happened to be in the olympics’ datacenter.
I was gonna say the same thing. My club has actually produced a couple of junior national champions and definite Olympic hopefuls in the next few years, although they’ve moved to the midwest to have more practice and better competition. I may well get to play against an olympian someday.
I think it’d be fun to try some of the sports like shooting and sailing, but there’s no real reason to think I’d be any good at them.
I was going to say curling too. After every winter Olympics I swear I’m going to take up curling.
My seven-year-old son loved gymnastics for a while and he seemed to be pretty good (and limber), but he got sick of it. Now he’s going to take fencing this winter. I may have an Olympian yet!
Curling is I had a decade to prepare.
I don’t know of any clubs in Michigan, but definitely check it out if you can. Although if it’s anything like around here, our open houses are swamped in Winter Olympics years. If you can find a place to try it this coming winter, it’ll probably be less crowded and a better experience.
The US’ first gold was in 10-meter air rifle. 10 meters!? That’s incredibly short distance. I know that the bullseye is only 0.5mm, but still, couldn’t they up it to 50m and increase the bullseye?
Rifle I wouldn’t win, but hopefully I’d get 31 of 32 or something. For skeet or something I’d have to practice the stations.
Being male, 5’6", and born a decade too early for the libero rule, I wouldn’t have been a good volleyball choice in my 20s, but that would definitely be my choice now.
Soccer goalkeeper.
Match rifle. I qualified to try out for our Olympic team years ago–didn’t make it, though I came close–but I’m still a better shot with a rifle than anybody I know. Heck, friends still ask me to sight in their rifles.
Just don’t ask me to run, jump, or play team sports.
I killed it at shot put two years in a row during Middle School Field Day.