Ideas to Improve Sport

[doughnut]

Dinghy racing - all boats have a hole drilled in the bottom and sailors restricted to using fragile china cups to bail any water out during the race.

 

[Badger_Boom]

Football
Build a big wall around the stadiums so no one can see what's going on as their imagination of what is happening is more interesting than watching the match

With the cheering crowd inside replaced by a loud recording of The Wall.

 

[Badger_Boom]

Dinghy racing - all boats have a hole drilled in the bottom and sailors restricted to using fragile china cups to bail any water out during the race.

Or colanders?

 

[Profpointy]

Football:

Instead of boring penalty shootouts they should copy pinball and have a multiball phase at the end of normal play. Every 5 minutes without scoring an extra football to be introduced into play

 

[Profpointy]

Hilly snooker table.

In 2000AD Judge Dredd's informant Max Normal played a game called shuggy which was easentially that !

 

[Profpointy]

Cycling:-a ten minute stop to eat ice-cream while admiring a lake view, like proper cyclists do.

And beer and pie for lunch, and cake mid afternoon

 

[Aravis]

In all sports: teams to be chosen by a lottery open to the public.

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

 

[matticus]

Bowls - competitors should wear 8" high heels.

Is there any sport that would NOT be improved by this?

Just me? IGMC ...

 

[Profpointy]

At the risk of being serious, why isn't tug-o-war a proper olympic sport? It is after all a true trial of strength, skill and team work and based on a simple obvious premise. People have doubtless been doing tug-o-war for as long as there has been rope or knotted vines or whatever.

Might have to have total weight of team as an alternative format to a set number of huge blokes

 

[KingstonGraham]

At the risk of being serious, why isn't tug-o-war a proper olympic sport? It is after all a true trial of strength, skill and team work and based on a simple obvious premise. People have doubtless been doing tug-o-war for as long as there has been rope or knotted vines or whatever.

Might have to have total weight of team as an alternative format to a set number of huge blokes

Team GB are the current Olympic Tug of War champions.

 

[Profpointy]

Team GB are the current Olympic Tug of War champions.

I stand corrected !
I did read they used to have tug o war in the olden days but then it got dropped. Great that it's now back in

 

[accountantpete]

Table Tennis using Ikea tables (players have to assemble the table first)

 

[Dogtrousers]

I stand corrected !
I did read they used to have tug o war in the olden days but then it got dropped. Great that it's now back in

According to Wikipedia it was last included in the Olympics in 1920. Is that olden enough
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tug_of_war_at_the_Summer_Olympics

 

[C R]

TdF - mountain stages on full squidge Apolo or Indy MTBs.

FTFY

 

[Punkawallah]

Water polo. On horses.