the Not So Special Olympics hosted by Mike Judge and David Letterman
(cue Beavis and Butthead laughs)
What about Olympics without drug restrictions? Like, how much can we improve on the human body?
I’ll start watching sports when there’s coked up cyborgs competing for who can stave off graft rejection for long enough to cross the finish line, thank you very much
/s but not really
We’ve already got the Tour de France, so that’s one sport down.
SNL had a skit on that “The All-Drug Olympics”
Athletes already put a lot of stress on their bodies as it is, a druglympic would end up with a lot of sick or dead people
Don’t we already kind of have this? Can’t people have done the drugs as long as they test clean at the event?
I’m not sure it’d be “much more” entertaining. I think watching arguably the greatest athletes in the world compete in their specialty is a great spectacle and I find it odd that they are implying it’s boring, but it would certainly be a lot fun to watch regardless (aside from the ridicule that sadly would occur)
It would be garbage to watch random people do these events. The only entertainment would be watching people like me almost kill themselves pole vaulting or something.
I could see it being a whole thing where they crash course in a sport for 3-6mo or something then just get out there and play.
Nah, 3-6 days max.
The average person is pretty out of shape, I vote a month. Give them time to get into some shape, plus it shows average people how quickly you can improve your shape and lifestyle with regular excercise
I don’t think that would be fun. They would probably be so sore just from the training that they would barely be able to compete anyway. I think it would be far more interesting to see what people can learn and build up to in a relatively short amount of time. I bet you would get some pretty amazing moments.
Cut to 100 years later and you have litetal hunger games.
So… Hunger games kind of thing?
Edit: but less murdery, I suppose.
why less murdery?
Right, give me a javelin and tell me that I can’t throw it into the crowd, see what I do.
I volunteer as tribute
I’ve always like the idea that the Olympic events should have one “normal” person do them, at least for ones where that is plausible and makes sense (like racing events, maybe not stuff like the giant slalom or the ski jump)
Like, if you had a 9th swim lane and put a guy who swims 3 days a week in there for fitness, I guarantee he’d get completely smashed in a way that would really illustrate how much faster the Olympians are.
You’d have to pay that poor bastard though, most people won’t want to look a fool on live tv for nothing.
I’ll do it for free if all expenses are paid for me to go to the Olympics. I look like a fool every day, one more day won’t make a difference.
Did you mispell your name? This is clearly a malicious black ajah proposal.
I like the nuance of not having a total noob, but instead a amatausiast!
Come to Canada, we already have it! https://ground.news/article/olympics-for-regular-people-good-games-come-to-university-of-guelph
I want this
This is what it used to be like not so long ago. The 1928 weightlifting champion was a butcher.
Source (german): https://www.sueddeutsche.de/bayern/olympia-der-gwamperte-herkules-1.3119023
Paywall?
It sounds like military service with cameras 😆
That’s basically what Takeshi’s Castle is. :)
I’ve always wanted a normal person to take part alongside the pros.
Right?? Give ya some sort of scale
In Russia the Olympics play you
Dave might kill it, you don’t know!
This would be one of my favorite shows.
