# Which Olympic event do you find the most impressive?

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**Category:** The Game Room\
**Tags:** olympic-sports-track\
**Created:** [July 22, 2021, 1:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-olympic-event-do-you-find-the-most-impressive/947017 "2021-07-22T01:03:56Z")\
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**Author:** ![Toxylon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/f05b48/32.png) [@Toxylon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Toxylon)\
**Post date:** [August 9, 2021, 10:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-olympic-event-do-you-find-the-most-impressive/947017/81 "2021-08-09T22:06:11Z")

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re: Marathon being most impressive: It’s hard for me to think that, what with the last Olympics having not one but two participants (Gorissen & Seidel) who were both on their _third marathon ever_, both managed extremely well, with Seidel scoring a Bronze medal (!!!) for her new hobby.

I can’t think of any other Olympic event where you had a snowball’s chance in hell of any success with two whole performances under your belt. No way.

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**Author:** ![Snarky\_Kong](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a183cd/32.png) [@Snarky\_Kong](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Snarky_Kong)\
**Post date:** [August 10, 2021, 4:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-olympic-event-do-you-find-the-most-impressive/947017/82 "2021-08-10T16:54:53Z")

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Why doesn’t this make it less impressive?

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