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I know the IOC is awful, but let's say the Olympics are held in Athens every year and everyone needs to take trains to get there. Team USA can ride on an empty cargo ship returning to China and take trains from there.
I think lacrosse should be included again, and the indigenous peoples of the Americas should represent themselves so they can embarrass the ivy league Team USA lacrosse team.
tug-of-war
What the fuck? Why would they get rid of the best event in the whole thing!?
Anyway they should have a whole day of the Olympics set aside for truly proletarian sports, like the three-legged race and the egg toss. Right now there's a pretty big bias towards sports only enjoyed by wealthy donors to the IOC.
Those would be great sports to add. I like the idea of regulation burlap sacks.
There have been some deaths in tug-of-wars, but I think it was due to the rope snapping. The human pyramids they do in Catalonia or India are another dangerous option.
I agree money has ruined them - wrestling was almost removed, but that's never considered for equestrian sports.
If you're going to have equestrian sports, at least bring back the one where you had to run through an obstacle course, shoot some targets, and then cut the heads off of dummys at speed with a saber. I would watch the shit out of that, like the long distance skiing/sniping one.
Horse slalom + horse archery + horse sword-riding? Sounds awesome.
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Olympics good, capitalism bad.
Like really, when it was really about sports they never even thought about holding it in the first place in the middle of a fucking cataclysm.
They had the Olympics during the Spanish Flu as well. They only cancelled the games during both world wars.
Here's my idea: every 4 years, they should invent a new sport for the Olympics. The rules of that sport aren't revealed until the first day of the Olympics, and the games aren't played until the final day. The teams for the new sport have to be made up of athletes from the other events. If the sport is cool and people like it, it gets to come back at the next Olympics
I would love to see some actual ground fighting with submissions or something, I think that would be sick and very in the spirit of the olympics
Fuck the commercialization of olympics, under socialism athletes participating in the new Spartakiad should be decided by a random lottery of applicants, spectators can literally fills in for athletes removed from the game, bring back urban planning medal.
They should bring back art, I don't know or care how they'd award medals for it.
They should include creative writing too, so we can watch That Guy In Your MFA Class psyche himself up in a tracksuit before furiously scribbling a 1.2/10 point short story.
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