The Olympic Walking event:

[Supersuperleeds]

I don't think so.....my cousin has a device that fits on his tractor to do the fencing on his farm. Where's the skill in that?

Not everyone can drive a tractor

 

[Supersuperleeds]

Golf - someone should remind them this is the Olympics, they should try to run around the course.

 

[Shut Up Legs]

Why don't the track cyclists get giddy? What with all that going round and round. Explain that, Doug.

That's why they occasionally hold the Olympics in the southern hemisphere: so the track cyclists can go round and round the other way, and eventually undo the spinning of their heads.

 

[Dave 123]

Because the men "clean their jerk"

There is a line, and I wasn't willing to cross it....

 

[Dayvo]

Instead of just throwing a javelin to see how far it goes, can't they combine it with darts and have targets with scores scattered about the athletics field, forcing to sacrifice distance for accuracy and accumulating the highest score.

Like this, but on a larger scale:

If he was still alive, Sid Waddell would have had a field day (pun intended).

 

[Dayvo]

Olympic divers shouldn't just get marks for style and execution, they should also get extra marks if they decide to land in shallower than normal water.

At present they are 4 metres deep for the 5 metre board, and 5 metres deep for the 10 metre board.

Or even something like this!


View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lp0MXvyAYIM

 

[Mad Doug Biker]

Why do Equestrianists have to dress like Ringmasters at a Travelling Circus ?

Umm, how can I out this politely??

Sod it, its a fetish thing for most. You don't see them with their cropps and whips, but.....



..... The people, not the horses.

 

[smokeysmoo]

Or even something like this

What a silly Kunze he is

 

[Smokin Joe]

I saw a comment on here about why they all walk like there is a mars bar stuck up their bum. I cannot find this now, so I will post this here:


View: https://youtu.be/W1sxFgTUbWo



If you have any sports you want to explain, post it here!

As Billy Connolly once said, that's not walking, it's cruising with a number.

 

[ColinJ]

Instead of just throwing a javelin to see how far it goes, can't they combine it with darts and have targets with scores scattered about the athletics field, forcing to sacrifice distance for accuracy and accumulating the highest score.

Like this, but on a larger scale:

If he was still alive, Sid Waddell would have had a field day (pun intended).

I actually think that is a brilliant idea!

I was going to make a joke about having moving targets but then I read THIS ... RIP.

 

[Roadrider48]

I take it you've never shot competitively?

Sorry mate, we'll have to agree to disagree.

 

[Mad Doug Biker]

I've shot competitively........that's me and Vernon last year

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Vernon was clearly looking decidedly off colour!

 

[twentysix by twentyfive]

I've shot competitively........that's me and Vernon last year

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Is that the new combined weight lifting and marksman event?

 

[Mad Doug Biker]

Is that the new combined weight lifting and marksman event?

Weight Shooting?

 

[twentysix by twentyfive]

Weight Shooting?

Firing the heavy weight contenders from a canon?