08-10-2008, 10:57 AM
The Olympics = fail.
It's seriously the greatest hodgepodge of stupid, useless, unrelated "events" I think will ever exist. First of all, there are WAY too many events. Take for swimming, for example. How many different races are there for different strokes, relay, or whatever? I don't even care enough to look it up (302 total events in 28 sports - that I bothered to look up). So some country/"olympian" wins a gold medal because he can swim around a pool with a specific type of stroke 0.02 seconds faster than another guy... wow... I care. *changes channel*
I say we go get back to the basics and do it old-school style. Forget sending 302 different competitors. I'm thinking every country gets two (one of each gender) Olympians. I'm talking the most bad ass, tricked out, skilled human specimen a country can put together to represent itself for all of the games. You want a swimming event? How about they start swimming and the one that goes the farthest before drowning wins. Track and field? How about a full on obstacle course that throws together elements of all the track and field events and the first one through the end wins? There should be a combat event too. Free for all where anything to physically overpower your opponent short of causing their death goes (or you get disqualified for said event). There won't be this BS about "oh such-and-such country took X number of medals, but this-n-that country won by taking Y number of medals". No. There is just going to be one victor, one Olympian, one country (per gender). End of story. The two Olympians standing at the end of the games will be considered the closest thing to the ancient Greek Gods on the face of the earth. They should then be forced to produce offspring, why not.
Unfortunately, the garbage we are stuck with now comes up for discussion as often as once every two years. I don't care how many medals the USA takes home, I'll be unimpressed.
It's seriously the greatest hodgepodge of stupid, useless, unrelated "events" I think will ever exist. First of all, there are WAY too many events. Take for swimming, for example. How many different races are there for different strokes, relay, or whatever? I don't even care enough to look it up (302 total events in 28 sports - that I bothered to look up). So some country/"olympian" wins a gold medal because he can swim around a pool with a specific type of stroke 0.02 seconds faster than another guy... wow... I care. *changes channel*
I say we go get back to the basics and do it old-school style. Forget sending 302 different competitors. I'm thinking every country gets two (one of each gender) Olympians. I'm talking the most bad ass, tricked out, skilled human specimen a country can put together to represent itself for all of the games. You want a swimming event? How about they start swimming and the one that goes the farthest before drowning wins. Track and field? How about a full on obstacle course that throws together elements of all the track and field events and the first one through the end wins? There should be a combat event too. Free for all where anything to physically overpower your opponent short of causing their death goes (or you get disqualified for said event). There won't be this BS about "oh such-and-such country took X number of medals, but this-n-that country won by taking Y number of medals". No. There is just going to be one victor, one Olympian, one country (per gender). End of story. The two Olympians standing at the end of the games will be considered the closest thing to the ancient Greek Gods on the face of the earth. They should then be forced to produce offspring, why not.
Unfortunately, the garbage we are stuck with now comes up for discussion as often as once every two years. I don't care how many medals the USA takes home, I'll be unimpressed.