It's not tug of war anymore.

Its "tug of artificially created conflict during which no one gets hurt"

"Korfball"?

Fark Visa, fark McDonald's, fark Bob Kostas, fark the Olympics.

Not watching a single minute of Bob's bathos.

/Haven't watched a single minute of Jay Leno since he farked over The Cone Zone.
/I am a TV elephant

Personally, I prefer the Laff-A-Lympics

Snarcoleptic_Hoosier: Calvinball needs to be an Olympic sport.

Yes! And I've just won the gold medal via the pre-emptive non-existence rule.

BKITU: I'll be deep in the cold, cold ground before I recognize archery basketball!

FTFM

The schedule. http://www.london2012.com/schedule-and-results/
Warning: risk of Retina Burn

/not sure why, but I couldn't create a link for the schedule, 403 error

First you need the skull of a dog.

I played croquet as a kid. It's a fun game. That said, I don't know what Olympic level croquet would even look like.

FTA, I gathered that there's a 2 sport wiggle room... who knows what we'll see in 2016 or 2020. As long as they keep the Modern Pentathlon, because honestly, if you don't have the skills to make it as a Prussian Officer - you ain't got skills at all.

/cyborg MMA in 2020?

tenpoundsofcheese: It's not tug of war anymore.

Its "tug of artificially created conflict during which no one gets hurt"

Tug of Police Action!

I will really miss Women's Softball.

reallyhotsoftballpitcher.jpg

ping pong is an Olympic sport??

But hey, Dressage is a real sport.

I thought solo synchronized swimming was hilarious. I kept thinking "awww, poor woman. Got no friends to swim with"

One word: Jarts.

Snarcoleptic_Hoosier: timster: Snarcoleptic_Hoosier: Calvinball needs to be an Olympic sport.

Yes! And I've just won the gold medal via the pre-emptive non-existence rule.

But you're in the invisible antithesis zone! You have to hop on one foot backwards until you find the space-time-fracking wicket! The gold medal is mine!

You've fallen for the classic double-antithesis trap! What you have isn't the gold medal, but rather the opposite. I may not have the medal either, but unlike you I certainly don't not have it.

Martin Short.
That is all

Olympic Hide and Seek.

Olympic Ookie Cookie

KingKauff: I thought solo synchronized swimming was hilarious. I kept thinking "awww, poor woman. Got no friends to swim with"

Solo Synchronized Swimming is not only stupid, it's an oxymoron.

namegoeshere: Olympic Hide and Seek.

I think Amelia Earhart is the current champ there.

/Though Jimmy Hoffa is making a go for it now!

They should make watching paint dry and olympic sport, its about as entertaining as half the sports in it.

namegoeshere: Olympic Hide and Seek.

The Germans would be the Gold Medal Seekers in every games.

Korfball is an actual, real thing. I did not know that.

Equine "sports" don't belong in the Olympics.

There. I said it.

Am I the only one who boycotts the Olympics because it was supposed to be restricted to amateur athletes?

dilettantegrrl: Am I the only one who boycotts the Olympics because it was supposed to be restricted to amateur athletes?

ya prolly. I watch them, but I'm not happy about it.

I'd like to see the following removed from the Olympics, or at least consolidated in some cases.

- Most team sports. Especially ones where a large number of the players don't have to actually do anything.
- "Sports" where the equipment does as much work as the athlete, and/or where the athlete barely breaks a sweat.
- Sports where luck is as much a factor as skill.
- Sports where the results are primarily decided by highly subjective judging.
- Redundant sports (do we really need to see people running around in an oval for a hundred different lengths?)
- Sports that unnecessarily segregate men and women. (Let's just have "Skeet", not a version for men and a version for women, for example).

So long golf, dancing (in various media), many of the "athletics" events, bobsleigh (especially 4 man), various forms of sailing, and so on.

Thank goodness baseball is gone.

"How did you earn your gold medal, Jim?" "Well, I spent half of each game standing in a field, waiting for a ball to come near me -- which it did! Twice! -- and most of the other half sitting on a bench waiting for my turn to swing a bat -- which I did! Three whole times!"

What's the sport with WIll Ferrell and that fabulous ribbon?Perducci: I'd like to see the following removed from the Olympics, or at least consolidated in some cases.

- Most team sports. Especially ones where a large number of the players don't have to actually do anything.
- "Sports" where the equipment does as much work as the athlete, and/or where the athlete barely breaks a sweat.
- Sports where luck is as much a factor as skill.
- Sports where the results are primarily decided by highly subjective judging.
- Redundant sports (do we really need to see people running around in an oval for a hundred different lengths?)
- Sports that unnecessarily segregate men and women. (Let's just have "Skeet", not a version for men and a version for women, for example).

So long golf, dancing (in various media), many of the "athletics" events, bobsleigh (especially 4 man), various forms of sailing, and so on.

Thank goodness baseball is gone.

"How did you earn your gold medal, Jim?" "Well, I spent half of each game standing in a field, waiting for a ball to come near me -- which it did! Twice! -- and most of the other half sitting on a bench waiting for my turn to swing a bat -- which I did! Three whole times!"

What's the sport with WIll Ferrell and that fabulous ribbon?

My opinion, no matter which event they took away to make room for




...it was a good trade.

"Did someone say club swinging?"

namegoeshere: Olympic Hide and Seek.

Been done.

Eirik: namegoeshere: Olympic Hide and Seek.

I think Amelia Earhart is the current champ there.

/Though Jimmy Hoffa is making a go for it now!

NO NO, you are thinking of Hellen Keller

in junior high (1991 or 92) our gym teacher had us play korfball for a week or two. I thought the fat biatch made the shiat up.

All of those sound more interesting to watch than:
Men's 50m
Women's 50m
Men's 51m
Women's 51m
Men's 52m
Women's 52m
Men's 53m
Women's 53m
Men's 54m
Women's 55m
Men's 56m
Women's 56m
Men's 57m
Women's 57m
Men's 58m
Women's 58m
Men's 59m
Women's 59m
Men's 60m
Women's 60m
etc.
Then repeated but this time it's swimming.

The Olympics really need to include Bouldering and Sport Climbing

I would watch the hell out of olympic tug of war.

100 meter breast stroke for people who can't swim.

I don't care much what events they have except I firmly believe it should only include non-subjective competitions. Swimming relays: ok. Synchronized swimming: not ok.

/and figure skating can DIAF

modesto: I would watch the hell out of olympic tug of war.

USA USA USA!!! No one could pull us over!

Oh wait...

goddammitsomuch

I'll start watching the olympics again when they make pole-dancing an official event.

Olympic ping-pong ROCKS!! and so does badminton!!

I love the olympics!!