A list of sports I have no interest in seeing at the Olympics

[Sue]

I've a feeling you're teasing me, but anyway, we don't shoot "skeets".

Skeet is just the name of one of the clay shooting disciplines, the others being "trap" and "sporting".

I've no idea why it's called skeet.

I'm genuinely not! I was thinking skeet shooting was like clay pigeon shooting so assumed the skeet was the thing you shot at.

 

[Spymaster]

I'm genuinely not! I was thinking skeet shooting was like clay pigeon shooting so assumed the skeet was the thing you shot at.

Fair enough.

It's conservation. We shoot Skeets because they're the primary predator of the Haggis, which as you know, is now an endangered species.

 

[A380]

Should introduce it into international politics; only allowed to invade countries with similar population and industrial base.

Fuck that, how would we be able to steal other people’s oil and wider mineral wealth?

 

[JimW]

In figure skeeting, you have to shoot things in time to a rendition of Ravel's Bolero.

 

[newme]

All of them. But other people like em so whatever.

 

[A380]

In figure skeeting, you have to shoot things in time to a rendition of Ravel's Bolero.

I’d watch that.

 

[stavros]

Replace horse dancing with monkey tennis.

 

[A380]

Replace horse dancing with monkey tennis.

Go for the middle ground, keep dressage bit with monkeys as the riders.

 

[A380]

On the above. They should let dolphins enter the swimming events.

 

[trashpony]

Team sports except for relays are shit in the Olympics.

 

[rubbershoes]

MP is a great event.

It's based on the main traditional skills required of soldiers; swimming, riding, fencing, shooting, and running.

Cavalry, rather than all soldiers

 

[Sue]

Cavalry, rather than all soldiers

Exactly. Like Brigadier Gerard of the 2nd Hussars. (Cracking stories which I loved as a kid. Recommended.)

Brigadier Gerard - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

ETA 'The hussars of the [Napoleonic] period created the tradition of sabrage. the opening of a champagne bottle with a sabre.' I'd watch that. (Bit disappointing the French didn't include that instead of one of the other tedious MP things though. )

 

[Spymaster]

Team sports except for relays are shit in the Olympics.

Yes!

 

[strung out]

They should bring back town planning as an Olympic event.

 

[Saul Goodman]

All Olympics' sports should be replaced with disciplines that anybody can enter.
Discus >>> Tiddlywinks
Archery >>> Darts
Football >>> Amateur dramatics
Basketball >>> Beer pong
Fencing >>> Creosoting
Javlin and shot put could both go and get replaced with Kerplunk
Boxing and Judo should be replaced with tutting and eye-rolling, respectively. Taekwondo >>> 'A nice cup of tea'.
All of those that involve passing a ball over a net to your opponent should be replaced with 'Taking my ball home'

 

[klang]

Skeet is just the name of one of the clay shooting disciplines, the others being "trap" and "sporting".

I've no idea why it's called skeet.

Skeet is basically trap without the annoying hi hats.

 

[A380]

Cribbage

 

[strung out]

Skeet and trap also the hot new genres of music that the kids are into at the moment of course.

 

[Spymaster]

Skeet is basically trap without the annoying hi hats.

The main difference is that with trap, the target is always going away from the shooter. Skeet, they are going away, coming towards, and crossing.

 

[Ted Striker]

Not exactly within the premise of the thread title, but it gives me the chance to do my quadrennial airing of the gaping issue with swimming...

There should only be Freestyle swimming (aka 'swimming'). The others are a nonsense.

How the swimming sports body convinced the world that we need non-freestyle swimming events, is beyond me.

it's the equivalent of tripling all the track races at all distances to include a hopping, running backwards and moonwalking version (along with the current actual running we'll rename 'freestyle running'). Or the golf event but a second tournament using only 1 hand.

They invented arbitrary ways to swim slower. Hardly the olympic ideal of harder/better/faster/stronger.

The medal overlap proves this...I mean stone the crows you aren't telling me that the guy who's got an aerodynamic <5% fat physique, aerobics off the charts, and, crucially, spends his entire working day in a pool...NOT ONLY does a decent butterfly, but...get this...he can also put a turn in on breaststroke and freestyle...there are literally no end to his talents.

Any chat around swimmers and their ridic medal hauls need to have an asterix next to them too.

 

[Santino]

Skeet and trap also the hot new genres of music that the kids are into at the moment of course.

To be fair, some of those skeet tunes are absolutely smelting.

 

[QueenOfGoths]

Hockey, Volleyball Tennis...in fact anything I was made to play at school and was shit at. I don't want to see people being good at those, I want to hang on to my teenage angst hatred!

Oh and golf but that's not just at the Olympics

 

[Richard46]

I have little or no interest in anything where the result is based on a score given by judges. Probably just me but sports are things that are won by doing something faster or higher or more accurately or by a score etc. Things that are judged on how they look are art forms.
Also have no interest in events involving horses.

 

[Sue]

I have little or no interest in anything where the result is based on a score given by judges. Probably just me but sports are things that are won by doing something faster or higher or more accurately or by a score etc. Things that are judged on how they look are art forms.

That would rule out gymnastics though which is absolutely awesome so no, just no.

 

[Richard46]

That would rule out gymnastics though which is absolutely awesome so no, just no.

I have no interest in excluding anything just these things are not for me.

Edit actually I do think they should get rid of that silly walks event; that is just daft.

 

[littlebabyjesus]

Not exactly within the premise of the thread title, but it gives me the chance to do my quadrennial airing of the gaping issue with swimming...

There should only be Freestyle swimming (aka 'swimming'). The others are a nonsense.

How the swimming sports body convinced the world that we need non-freestyle swimming events, is beyond me.

it's the equivalent of tripling all the track races at all distances to include a hopping, running backwards and moonwalking version (along with the current actual running we'll rename 'freestyle running'). Or the golf event but a second tournament using only 1 hand.

They invented arbitrary ways to swim slower. Hardly the olympic ideal of harder/better/faster/stronger.

The medal overlap proves this...I mean stone the crows you aren't telling me that the guy who's got an aerodynamic <5% fat physique, aerobics off the charts, and, crucially, spends his entire working day in a pool...NOT ONLY does a decent butterfly, but...get this...he can also put a turn in on breaststroke and freestyle...there are literally no end to his talents.

Any chat around swimmers and their ridic medal hauls need to have an asterix next to them too.

High-quality ranting.

 

[xenon]

Also, while I'm here, there are too many swimming medals.

'Oh, oh, I'm the best at swimming 575m in the third fastest way of propelling oneself through the water.'

Most of the Olympic sports are like that though. Oo look at me. I'm really good at running 400m quickly... I can chuck a particular type of stick or heavy ball really far.... Well done. I mean you have been practising for years and these skills seem of limited entertainment value but well done... I guess.

 

[A380]

Not exactly within the premise of the thread title, but it gives me the chance to do my quadrennial airing of the gaping issue with swimming...

There should only be Freestyle swimming (aka 'swimming'). The others are a nonsense.

How the swimming sports body convinced the world that we need non-freestyle swimming events, is beyond me.

it's the equivalent of tripling all the track races at all distances to include a hopping, running backwards and moonwalking version (along with the current actual running we'll rename 'freestyle running'). Or the golf event but a second tournament using only 1 hand.

They invented arbitrary ways to swim slower. Hardly the olympic ideal of harder/better/faster/stronger.

The medal overlap proves this...I mean stone the crows you aren't telling me that the guy who's got an aerodynamic <5% fat physique, aerobics off the charts, and, crucially, spends his entire working day in a pool...NOT ONLY does a decent butterfly, but...get this...he can also put a turn in on breaststroke and freestyle...there are literally no end to his talents.

Any chat around swimmers and their ridic medal hauls need to have an asterix next to them too.

They should have Princess Bride fencing where right handed athletes have to fence left handed and vice versa to compete with swimming…

 

[Richard46]

Not exactly within the premise of the thread title, but it gives me the chance to do my quadrennial airing of the gaping issue with swimming...

There should only be Freestyle swimming (aka 'swimming'). The others are a nonsense.

How the swimming sports body convinced the world that we need non-freestyle swimming events, is beyond me.

it's the equivalent of tripling all the track races at all distances to include a hopping, running backwards and moonwalking version (along with the current actual running we'll rename 'freestyle running'). Or the golf event but a second tournament using only 1 hand.

They invented arbitrary ways to swim slower. Hardly the olympic ideal of harder/better/faster/stronger.

The medal overlap proves this...I mean stone the crows you aren't telling me that the guy who's got an aerodynamic <5% fat physique, aerobics off the charts, and, crucially, spends his entire working day in a pool...NOT ONLY does a decent butterfly, but...get this...he can also put a turn in on breaststroke and freestyle...there are literally no end to his talents.

Any chat around swimmers and their ridic medal hauls need to have an asterix next to them too.

I have been saying exactly this for years. Thank you I thought it was just me who had noticed what a scam the swimming events are.

 

[littlebabyjesus]

Not exactly within the premise of the thread title, but it gives me the chance to do my quadrennial airing of the gaping issue with swimming...

There should only be Freestyle swimming (aka 'swimming'). The others are a nonsense.

How the swimming sports body convinced the world that we need non-freestyle swimming events, is beyond me.

it's the equivalent of tripling all the track races at all distances to include a hopping, running backwards and moonwalking version (along with the current actual running we'll rename 'freestyle running'). Or the golf event but a second tournament using only 1 hand.

They invented arbitrary ways to swim slower. Hardly the olympic ideal of harder/better/faster/stronger.

The medal overlap proves this...I mean stone the crows you aren't telling me that the guy who's got an aerodynamic <5% fat physique, aerobics off the charts, and, crucially, spends his entire working day in a pool...NOT ONLY does a decent butterfly, but...get this...he can also put a turn in on breaststroke and freestyle...there are literally no end to his talents.

Any chat around swimmers and their ridic medal hauls need to have an asterix next to them too.

There is a problem with this, though. It would have meant no David Wilkie.

Told off for swimming too fast in his local pool, aged 62!

Swimming too fast in the fast lane?