I'm so bloody tired and its all the fault of the Olympics. How is an obsessive sports nerd supposed to get any decent sleep when they keep pushing their stuff at me all through the night? These incessant dealers of the "Opium of the Masses" have left me with the glazed and vacant expression of a long time, dependant user. I have tried to give up sports watching but to be honest I'm obsessed and will always get dragged back in. To be honest if Paint Drying was an Olympic event, I would probably watch it, glued to the multi camera coverage of the coverage.
I do think there is some fundamental unfairness in the choice of events for the Olympic cannon. In Boxing and Judo for instance, there are numerous weight classes. This is of course because a Heavyweight Boxer would clearly thrash a Lightweight, as essentially the Heavyweight is the more powerful fighter. Why then do we not have the 100m sprint in different weight categories. As a self proclaimed fat bird, there is no way I could race a skinny fit runner, but, put me alongside a bunch of similarly sized competitors and I'm sure I could give it a good go. This extra event scheduled just before the now renamed 100m lightweight sprint would have the added benefit of making the worlds fastest look even better. We could even extend this theme to other events such as the Gymnastics. Just imagine the tension and excitement as the Super Heavyweight class gymnasts desperately struggling to cling on to the Rings apparatus, arms stretched taught in the vain hope of completing just one pull up, or gamely trying to clamber onto the Beam only to just wobble off the other side.
As the next host nation I think we are entitled to introduce new exhibition events, so in London 2012 we would have the opportunity to implement my idea. As the first British Olympics for 64 years there are also other events we could introduce. For example, Darts, Snooker or even Synchronised Blogging, where pairs of competitors have to Post at speed on the same subject and are judged on Synchronisation (managing to have exactly matching views), Technical Ability (spelling) and Artistic Merit (Lying). As mad as this sounds lest not forget that until recently there was an event of Solo Synchronised Swimming.
Anyway, I better finish because the BBC is pushing some Grade A Paula Radcliffe Marathon Running.
By the way, is it just me that every time they show the Olympic Breakfast programme I start thinking of visiting a Little Chef ?
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4 comments:
I doubt I'd make it past 10 meters, unless there was a really nice cake at the finish.:)
Blogging I hope its marked out of ten rather than that new system for gymnastics.
I hope you've been watching the hockey. It's such a shame that I've been working from home for the last 2 weeks.
That said I've just had to watch the Ladies draw 0-0 with USA which was a little painful
Mmm. Olympic Breakfast.
At least the BBC version doesn't charge 75p for an extra round of toast.
Lucy. Your right these new scoring systems are so dull. Its the same in Ice Skating. The drama of Torville and Dean's 6.0 6.0 6.0... would be less if it was 103.754 or whatever the system is now.
Bill the Hockey has been a bit of a let down. How I yearn for Barry Davies's commentary, "Where were the German's?.....Who cares"
Becky, charging 75p for toast is pure evil. As a chippy socialist I blame Thatcher!!
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