Ideas to Improve Sport

[Drago]

The Olympics should go back to their roots

I like that. All marathon runners should drop dead once they've crossed the finish line.

 

[Time Waster]

However, no prizes other than glory and a crown of olive leaves. Self funded althletes so the games were actually cheap to run. Truce negotiated and maintained by all states taking part for the course of the Olympics and the travelling time to and from the event. This was actually well observed. Would you not go for at least a month with no other state sanctioned killings and war??

Then again I do like the idea of sportsmen living the ascetic life of an ancient Olympian. They would abstain from anything that distracted from the sport such as sex. There was a well regarded wrestler that not just abstained but also removed himself from places it happened or even places it was being talked about. I think the high profile cases of rape, sexual assault, exploitation and other things related to it in professional footballer and related circles would also be a good thing if modern sportsmen followed that practise.

 

[Time Waster]

There is a type of wrestling that I think comes from eastern European countries and perhaps into middle east that involved wearing leather half masted trousers and covering themselves in copious amounts of olive oil. I wonder if that was how rugby was played too with a lot of olive oil you might have an interesting game going on. Forget about wet weather and greasy balls, all balls and players would be greasy.

 

[KingstonGraham]

Oh, I don't know about that.


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TMO has reviewed and confirmed that Carling did indeed blobby blob blob as claimed.

 

[Seevio]

All martial arts should have the same commentator as mortal combat.

 

[Drago]

Morris Dancing and karate to be combined at the next olympic games.

 

[Dogtrousers]

Bunkers in golf to be subject to live artillery fire.

 

[Badger_Boom]

All martial arts should have the same commentator as mortal combat.

Morris Dancing and karate to be combined at the next olympic games.

I'd pay to see these ideas combined.

<TAKES A HIT IN THE BELLS>
Fatality!

 

[Drago]

Triple jump - competitors to use only one leg, including during the run up,

 

[stephec]

The Olympics should go back to their roots - all competitors naked. No arguments about who has the best kit then...

You keep your Geoff Capes fantasies to yourself thank you very much.

 

[Time Waster]

What do you get if you cross Geoff Capes with Ozzy Osbourne. A headless budgie!!!

IGMC

 

[Time Waster]

Switch places the worlds strongest man competitors and synchro high divers (olympics). So the divers double up and have to pull the truck. The strongmen have to dive off the high dive and get scored accordingly.

I have visions of thee truck moving two millimetres after 10 hours of solid effort and the dive pool losing half its water as the two strongmen mess up on their dive and do one masssive belly flop!!! Possibly cracking the tiles on the bottom when they hit them hard!!

Then the atlas stones. The two man dive team couldn't even get it moving so the whole of the olympic sycnro dive competition collapse in a heap having just got the lightest atlas stones on the lowest barrel. All the while the next team of strongmen learn from the others and just jump in feet first. No point trying to be fancy, just safe.

One slightly less photogenic sport would be pidgeon racing. how about swapping the pidgeons out with parrots? If they get lost they can just stop andd asl directions.

 

[Profpointy]

Not making actual sports better but please lycra shorts with mesh at the back should be banned. I was stuck in traffic behind a road cyclist whose shorts had a central strip of what has stretched into see through mesh. I followed the guy for over 5 minutes down country roads in couldn't safely pass him.

But at least you remembered you needed to post that letter

 

[Profpointy]

I think they should replace footballs with egg shaped balls which roll unpredictably. It would make it much more fun.

Maybe they could pick it up and run with it too. And remove the rule where they have to roll around on the ground if an opponent touches their jumper

 

[Drago]

Strongman - competitors to wear gorilla suits and regularly beat their chests.