Everyone knows the only thing that would impress an alien is lying about an invisible thread.
Oly weightlifting and Gymnastics
[quote]hungry4more wrote:
[quote]bond james bond wrote:
Mens and Womens 100m. That to me IS the olympics.
Humans were designed to run were they not?
If these Canad…ahem, aliens were studying us, maybe they would say to themselves "these tiny little beings are built primarily to run, who’s the fastest down there?.
Not the strongest or the most gracefull, or the most durable.
If they are an ass kicking kind of alien race I’m going with the skeet shooting.
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Umwut, we’re built to run? Horses, deer, elk, cheetahs, THEY are built to run. We’re just creative and have opposing thumbs, that’s all. Any physical feat we can do, there’s an animal that makes us look silly even trying to compete. [/quote]
This. We suck at running. We suck at swimming. We suck at fighting with our hands. What we do well is build, buy and use vehicles and tools to beat nature. That’s what we’re built to do.
Super G or pole vaulting. Gymnasts are damn impressive but so are monkeys.
Formula 1 or flying is pretty impressive but the alien got here so he’s probably seen better.
So if men & women didn’t compete separately, what events would women finish first in?
[quote]therajraj wrote:
So if men & women didn’t compete separately, what events would women finish first in?
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Apparently, swimming.
[quote]tunacake wrote:
Oly weightlifting and Gymnastics[/quote]
Gymnastics isn’t a bad choice. Its part an art form to demonstrate our intelligence and the physical aspects are different than what any other animal can do like running or swimming.
The reason I disagree with weightlifting is you can pick anyone in the general public, old or young and give them a bar of some weight they can handle and you could probably teach them to do a very bad form of both Olympic lifts in 5 minutes. Trying to do the same with something that resembles any Olympic gymnast movement would result in failure and serious injury.
[quote]thethirdruffian wrote:
[quote]therajraj wrote:
So if men & women didn’t compete separately, what events would women finish first in?
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Apparently, swimming.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/sport/2012/jul/30/ye-shiwen-world-record-olympics-2012[/quote]
Wasn’t her overall time for the 400m 25 seconds longer though? I don’t understand how 50m can be the same and the remaining 350 be 25 seconds longer.
[quote]sufiandy wrote:
[quote]thethirdruffian wrote:
[quote]therajraj wrote:
So if men & women didn’t compete separately, what events would women finish first in?
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Apparently, swimming.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/sport/2012/jul/30/ye-shiwen-world-record-olympics-2012[/quote]
Wasn’t her overall time for the 400m 25 seconds longer though? I don’t understand how 50m can be the same and the remaining 350 be 25 seconds longer.[/quote]
Stamina on the final 50m, and the final stroke(although that would be the final 100) is freestyle, which is a whole lot less about perfection of technique than the butterfly/breast/backstrokes. That’s my guess, I didn’t see the race.
100m all the way. Everyone knows the winner by the end of the games.
Other than Kurt Angle, I could not tell you one guy who has won a medal at wrestling.
[quote]treco wrote:
[quote]hungry4more wrote:
[quote]bond james bond wrote:
Mens and Womens 100m. That to me IS the olympics.
Humans were designed to run were they not?
If these Canad…ahem, aliens were studying us, maybe they would say to themselves "these tiny little beings are built primarily to run, who’s the fastest down there?.
Not the strongest or the most gracefull, or the most durable.
If they are an ass kicking kind of alien race I’m going with the skeet shooting.
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Umwut, we’re built to run? Horses, deer, elk, cheetahs, THEY are built to run. We’re just creative and have opposing thumbs, that’s all. Any physical feat we can do, there’s an animal that makes us look silly even trying to compete. [/quote]
Well we are ideally designed for walking long distances[/quote]
50km walk then! I didn’t even realize that was a real event until just now.
[quote]batman730 wrote:
[quote]bond james bond wrote:
Mens and Womens 100m. That to me IS the olympics.
Humans were designed to run were they not?
If these Canad…ahem, aliens were studying us, maybe they would say to themselves "these tiny little beings are built primarily to run, who’s the fastest down there?.
Not the strongest or the most gracefull, or the most durable.
If they are an ass kicking kind of alien race I’m going with the skeet shooting.
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We MAY have been designed to run, but we are really piss poor at the 100m. That being said, I love the 100m and it is probably one the single most exciting events to watch, it’s just that as a species we suck at it. Almost everything with legs is faster than us. Flat out speed is not what makes us special.
We are elite distance runners relative to other species, so maybe DN is on to something with the whole marathon thing (boring as it is). We are, however, exceptionally good at building and using tools to kill stuff, so maybe you have a point with the whole shooting thing.
I am personally most impressed with decathletes/heptathletes, but that’s already been covered.[/quote]
There would be an event.
You get dropped into the woods for one week.
During that week you build something to kill something and then do it.
Olympic Games are castrated.
Curling?
men’s 100m
[quote]angry chicken wrote:
I’ll take the olympics seriously when they reinstate rugby union as an olympic sport (which would be a good example badassery for the Cana… I mean aliens). There are plenty of male and FEMALE rugby teams out there as well as a HUGE international fan base. They use the same size pitch as the football (soccer) event, so it’s not like it would be a major inconvenience.
I mean they’ve got BMX, synchronized swimming, MOUNTAIN BIKING (lol), hand ball, ping pong (fucking PING PONG!), trampoline, and in the winter they have CURLING! But no rugby? Give me a fucking break! Rugby is a far more international game than so many of these other “sports”.
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Well, they are going to try rugby sevens this Games.
[quote]hungry4more wrote:
[quote]treco wrote:
[quote]hungry4more wrote:
[quote]bond james bond wrote:
Mens and Womens 100m. That to me IS the olympics.
Humans were designed to run were they not?
If these Canad…ahem, aliens were studying us, maybe they would say to themselves "these tiny little beings are built primarily to run, who’s the fastest down there?.
Not the strongest or the most gracefull, or the most durable.
If they are an ass kicking kind of alien race I’m going with the skeet shooting.
[/quote]
Umwut, we’re built to run? Horses, deer, elk, cheetahs, THEY are built to run. We’re just creative and have opposing thumbs, that’s all. Any physical feat we can do, there’s an animal that makes us look silly even trying to compete. [/quote]
Well we are ideally designed for walking long distances[/quote]
Still plenty of animals that can and do cover longer distances in less time. My point is that our dominance over nature has nothing to do with physical ability, all about intelligence and skill. [/quote]
While I absolutely agree that our dominance is based on intelligence (and I would add co-operation and social organization but those flow from intelligence), we are actually pretty damn good over distance.
At marathon distance and further we are competitive with horses. At ultra-distance we are near the top of the heap.
Still pretty boring though.
still rings
[quote]batman730 wrote:
[quote]hungry4more wrote:
[quote]treco wrote:
[quote]hungry4more wrote:
[quote]bond james bond wrote:
Mens and Womens 100m. That to me IS the olympics.
Humans were designed to run were they not?
If these Canad…ahem, aliens were studying us, maybe they would say to themselves "these tiny little beings are built primarily to run, who’s the fastest down there?.
Not the strongest or the most gracefull, or the most durable.
If they are an ass kicking kind of alien race I’m going with the skeet shooting.
[/quote]
Umwut, we’re built to run? Horses, deer, elk, cheetahs, THEY are built to run. We’re just creative and have opposing thumbs, that’s all. Any physical feat we can do, there’s an animal that makes us look silly even trying to compete. [/quote]
Well we are ideally designed for walking long distances[/quote]
Still plenty of animals that can and do cover longer distances in less time. My point is that our dominance over nature has nothing to do with physical ability, all about intelligence and skill. [/quote]
While I absolutely agree that our dominance is based on intelligence (and I would add co-operation and social organization but those flow from intelligence), we are actually pretty damn good over distance.
At marathon distance and further we are competitive with horses. At ultra-distance we are near the top of the heap.
Still pretty boring though.[/quote]
I’m fairly certain humans are one of the only mammals that can cool down on the run (by sweating), where most animals have to stop and pant. There have been a few cases of a man outrunning a horse, over distance.
We suck as speed compared to those with four legs to apply power with.
Still, I’m a huge fan of the weightlifting and gymnastics. Some absolute crazy displays of strength
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[quote]02Thief wrote:
I’m fairly certain humans are one of the only mammals that can cool down on the run (by sweating), where most animals have to stop and pant. There have been a few cases of a man outrunning a horse, over distance. [/quote]
Horses sweat. If a horse starts panting like a dog, it’s going to die. They can walk and trot far faster than any human for many, many miles a day, every day, day-after-day. That’s what they do in the wild. Any horse that was “outrun” by a man had to be in some sort of weird situation.
Dogs sweat, too, BTW. They “pant” because they have a bunch of near-to-the-surface blood vessels in the base of their kneck that they cool by breathing. This insulates the brain and keeps it cool. This “selective cooling” is why dogs can wear larger prey out over time (e.g., a bear) — they are far more efficient at cooling themselves than most mammals.
(Source: growing up on a mountain ranch and having a lot of horses and dogs, and hunting bears with dogs.)
10m air pistol - seriously - an event for shooting a b.b. gun.
Any event where a member of the royal family can medal is suspicious. Not sure how sailing is an olympic event, given that it’s, you know, driven by wind power and all, but what do I know. The ultra-rich crowd needs something that they can compete at - Chariots of Fire style.
I think that the weightlifting events would be more interesting if they got rid of the weight classes - just let pure beasts slug it out.
Same theory for Judo, Boxing, Wrestling, or any other events where weight class is a limiting factor - IMO, it cheapens it - just let the biggest, baddest freak win.