The dumbest looking Olympic sport is...

AckwelFoley

The walk.

The 100m sprint = fastest man in the world
Marathon = endurance
Boxing - best fighter
Walking = best person to sent and get milk in the shop

It looks like a paralympic sport, but most importantly, where the hell do you practice?

Have you ever seen anyone practice in Limerick city? I love the city myself, but this would not be tolerated. Its rather uncomfortable to see grown men move their hips like that :eek:

Do we give sports funding to this?

KnifeWRENCH

Totally agree. They look so stupid!

Also, what do you tell people if you win gold?
"I'm the world's best amateur walker" doesn't quite have the same ring to it as "best boxer" or "best swimmer" or whatever.
"I walked better than anyone else" - sounds ridiculous.

Though I think dressage looks quite silly aswell - I always hope they'll fall off the horse.

Podge2k7

Same here i totally agree looks so stupid!

Mr. Presentable

Worse than mens synchronised diving?

Curlypinkie

Me, I would like to see the Narcoleptic Olympics myself.

"
Aaaaah there goes the Kenyan, he runs past the Irish, oh no, he just fell asleep, ANYTHING can happen now ladies and gentlemen anything......"

AckwelFoley

nipplenuts wrote: »

Worse than synchronised diving?

women in swimsuits you GHEY! :P

Itsallzen

Gynmastics with the twirly ribbon things!

Daithi McGee

Itsallzen wrote: »

Gynmastics with the twirly ribbon things!

Don't be Diss'n the Twirly Ribbons! They Rock!

Jimbo

Itsallzen wrote: »

Gynmastics with the twirly ribbon things!

women in leotards you GHEY! :pac:;)

punchdrunk

snyper wrote: »

The walk.

The 100m sprint = fastest man in the world
Marathon = endurance
Boxing - best fighter
Walking = best person to sent and get milk in the shop

It looks like a paralympic sport, but most importantly, where the hell do you practice?

Have you ever seen anyone practice in Limerick city? I love the city myself, but this would not be tolerated. Its rather uncomfortable to see grown men move their hips like that :eek:

Do we give sports funding to this?

i'm with mister snyper here,it's a sport where you win by NOT going as fast as you can FFS! :rolleyes:

Agamemnon

Olympic walking is a joke all right. They're essentially giving medals to people for resisting the temptation to break into a run.

Turd Ferguson

Itsallzen wrote: »

Gynmastics with the twirly ribbon things!

What is that called? I'm wayyyy to lazy to google it so i shall bash the F5 key till someone posts the answer.

thnx

m83

Someone invaribly infinitely wiser than me once said:

"...a contest to see who can walk the fastest is like having a contest to see who can whisper the loudest"


How do you find out you are good at it? Do people get scholarships for it? I can see it being a new Ben Stiller / Will Ferrel move ala Dodgeball.... Dodgerun!

indough

with regards to the walking there are actually rules over what parts of your foot are allowed to leave the floor at any one time which is where the difficulty comes in

KnifeWRENCH

m83 wrote: »

How do you find out you are good at it? Do people get scholarships for it?

Lol I can just imagine the IOC sending scouts to find talented walkers.

"We're looking for the best young walkers in this country."

adox

indough wrote: »

with regards to the walking there are actually rules over what parts of your foot are allowed to leave the floor at any one time which is where the difficulty comes in

At least one foot on the ground at all times.

Mr. Presentable

snyper wrote: »

women in swimsuits you GHEY! :P

OK, mens synchronised diving

snubbleste

Competitive walking is actually difficult to master and has stringent rules. All you have to do is look at the faces of the competitors as they finish.

I think the Dressage is the oddest olympic sport, making a horse dance around..or synchronised swimming - it's not even a sport, it's drama.

Jimbo

snubbleste wrote: »

Competitive walking is actually difficult to master and has stringent rules. All you have to do is look at the faces of the competitors as they finish.

I think the Dressage is the oddest olympic sport, making a horse dance around..or synchronised swimming - it's not even a sport, it's drama.

You're a walker, aren't you? Go on, just admit it.

Drift

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hi4DEdUmA6A

snubbleste

snubbleste wrote: »

Competitive walking is actually difficult to master and has stringent rules.

Doesn't matter. Its completely ridiculous. RTE were doing slowmotion replays during the walking race last night,dunno why though. There was little difference between slowmotion and live footage

indough

you all should have no problem getting gold in 2008 then

Perrin

Anyone seen the event where they were jumping on a trampoline?

Surely trampoline jumping isn't a sport?

g'em

Turd Ferguson wrote: »

What is that called? I'm wayyyy to lazy to google it so i shall bash the F5 key till someone posts the answer.

thnx

Rhythm gymnastics. Does your F5 still work after bashing it for two hours?

genericgoon

Technically a Winter Olympics sport but it has to be curling. Some kind of retarded mishmash of cleaning your room and bowls(like who the hell makes a game anything like bowls!? Bowls makes darts look like the flipping marathon)

phasers

All sports are dumb, bring back Home and Away!


I hate the oympics

entropi

square_igloo wrote: »

Totally agree. They look so stupid!

a +1 here

Though I think dressage looks quite silly aswell - I always hope they'll fall off the horse.

Well the horses are on drugs now sure anything could happen

nipplenuts wrote: »

Worse than mens synchronised diving?

Mens Synchronised Swimming?

Agamemnon wrote: »

Olympic walking is a joke all right. They're essentially giving medals to people for resisting the temptation to break into a run.

It really shouldnt be in the olympics...and wtf they have bmx racing in it? its not the fu*king X-Games come on!!

token56

Its a pity that most of those olympic walkers can walk faster than most people on this can run. Go try it, its a very hard sport

javaboy

All the Olympic sports have restrictions to a degree.

Javelin/shotput/hammer throw is not just about throwing it the furthest. It's about throwing the furthest without crossing some boundary.

110m hurdle would be a lot faster if you didn't have to jump those pesky hurdles.

The gold medal in boxing doesn't prove you're the best fighter. It proves you're the best fighter within the confines of the rules of boxing.

And so on.

Walking is just another sport constrained by rules. So it has just as much merit as any other Olympic sport.

With that said I've never seen a man do it while looking even remotely straight.

suckslikeafox

Theres a 64 page rulebook for the walking, its not like any fool can do it

javaboy

suckslikeafox wrote: »

Theres a 64 page rulebook for the walking, its not like any fool can do it

One doesn't follow from the other. After all the rules of the road book probably has a similar number of pages.

donegal11

adox wrote: »

At least one foot on the ground at all times.

slow motion replays show that the vast majority of walkers have there two feet off the ground and are in fact "running" making the sport pointless

kraggy

nipplenuts wrote: »

Worse than mens synchronised diving?

Actually what happened the synchronised swimming.

Haven't seen it this Olympics at all.

Used to love watchin it.

kraggy

snyper wrote: »

The walk.

The 100m sprint = fastest man in the world
Marathon = endurance
Boxing - best fighter
Walking = best person to sent and get milk in the shop

It looks like a paralympic sport, but most importantly, where the hell do you practice?

Have you ever seen anyone practice in Limerick city? I love the city myself, but this would not be tolerated. Its rather uncomfortable to see grown men move their hips like that :eek:

Do we give sports funding to this?

It's actually really hard Snyper. You have to have one foot on the ground at all times and the pain they get in their shins is unbearable. I tried it yesterday on the way home from town, when nobody was looking obviously.

There was some girl who after walking 19.8 km in the last Olympics and had entered the stadium, on the last lap etc, momentarily had both feet off the ground. Bang, disqualified.

Imaging hearing that after all that work.

I'd go mad.

_blank_

This thread is bleedin' deadly. Best laugh I've had in ages.

suckslikeafox

javaboy wrote: »

One doesn't follow from the other. After all the rules of the road book probably has a similar number of pages.

Sorry, should have put in a sarcasm warning with the post!

KnifeWRENCH

kraggy wrote: »

There was some girl who after walking 19.8 km in the last Olympics and had entered the stadium, on the last lap etc, momentarily had both feet off the ground. Bang, disqualified..

I sympathise with her - that sucks. But really it serves her right for partaking in such a stupid-looking sport! :P

Although if Rob Heffernan or Olive Loghnanne had won a medal in it, we'd probably all be hailing them as heroes. And, in the quest for medals at future games, we'd all be encouraging our children to learn how to walk.

challengemaster

Gymnastics ftw.

javaboy

square_igloo wrote: »

And, in the quest for medals at future games, we'd all be encouraging our children to learn how to walk.

Woah woah. Stop right there. You don't want to be one of those parents who hothouses their kids and lives vicariously through them.

Honestly the amount of people who record their children's first steps in scrapbooks or on video is unbelievable. It's so sad though because most of them will never make it to Olympic standard. There's only so many medals to go around.

KnifeWRENCH

javaboy wrote: »

Woah woah. Stop right there. You don't want to be one of those parents who hothouses their kids and lives vicariously through them.

Oh I don't want to be a parent full stop. I hate kids :mad:

Though if I accidentally end up with one, of course I'll live vicariously through them. They will be perfect and win gold medals in ALL events. Otherwise they shall have disappointed me and will live in shame for the rest of their lives.

Tough but fair, I think.

ewj1978

HANDBALL.... not the good ol' Irish version but that bloody stupid cross between basketball and football... wtf's it all about? whats the rules? why can't you tackle people?... i like syncro swimming btw... lovely ladies and their lovely legs... and bums... and breasts....hmmmmmm

Toto Wolfcastle

indough wrote: »

you all should have no problem getting gold in 2008 then

Of course we'd have no problem getting gold. It's the turning back time thing that's the problem!

testicle

snyper wrote: »

Have you ever seen anyone practice in Limerick city? I love the city myself, but this would not be tolerated.

Yes, I have...

pickarooney

The butterfly swimming events are just as stupid, and the breast and backstroke come to think of it - you have to go as fast as you can while making the least productive movements possible with your arms. And even still the same guy wins everything.

So Michael, eight golds, what an all-rounder!
Yeah, I'm really good at swimming fast, then swimming fast with my arse in the air and swimming fast doing the Mexican wave and then doing all of them at the same time...

AckwelFoley

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