Thursday, August 9, 2012

Fake Olympic Events

I started using the twitter hashtag #FakeOlympicEvents for anything new I come up with. Here is the complete list.

From the first list:
  1. 18 hole Golf (turns out this is new in 2016)
  2. Pitch-n-Putt
  3. Mini Golf
  4. 10 pin bowling
  5. Candle pin bowling
  6. Baseball
  7. Softball
  8. Horse Racing
  9. Cross Country Running (actually across the country)
  10. Cross Country Swimming
  11. Cross Country Cycling
  12. Shuffleboard
  13. White Water Polo
  14. Kayak Jumping
  15. White Water Swimming
  16. Cliff Diving
  17. Survivor
  18. Competitive Eating
  19. Competitive Drinking
  20. Yachting
  21. Iceberg Sailing
  22. Billiards
  23. Polo
  24. Light Saber Fencing
  25. M.C. Escher painting racing
  26. Boomerang Toss

From the Second list:
  1. Coin Toss
  2. Darts
  3. Men's Synchronized Swimming
  4. Cross-season triathlon
  5. Short-track running
  6. Skateboarding
  7. Synchronized Cycling
  8. Water Wrestling
  9. H-O-R-S-E
  10. Dog Show
  11. 15 Meter dash (Swimming)
  12. 15 Meter dash (Athletics)
  13. Cricket
  14. Rugby
  15. Horseshoes

And more from twitter:
  1. Beach Tennis
  2. Jousting
  3. Tag Team Tennis
  4. Tag Team Table Tennis
  5. Cheerleading
  6. Swimming Hurdles
  7. Sword Fighting
  8. Trip-wire Hurdles
  9. BMX Bicycle Hurdles
  10. Skee Ball
  11. Water Lacrosse
  12. White Water Obstacle Course
  13. a Gymnastics event scaling the Olympic rings
  14. Dueling
  15. Dueling with Pitchforks
  16. Moat Jumping (a derivative of track and field hurdles)
  17. Swimming in circles (athletic track style)
  18. Paint gun Shooting
  19. See-saw
  20. Swings (as in backyard swing set)
  21. Volley-Tennis (tennis with Beach Volleyball rules)
  22. Cross Country Sailing
  23. Human Obstacle Course
  24. Figure 8 Cycling
  25. Fishing
  26. Sandcastle building
  27. Co-ed Naked Beach Volleyball
  28. Dynamically/Randomly Moving Hurdles
  29. Floor Hockey
  30. Javelin Catching
  31. Slow Motion Running
  32. Low Jump
  33. Limbo
  34. Race Skipping (a form of race walking)
  35. Paddle boating
  36. Rock Climbing
  37. Racquetball
  38. Squash

And there you have it. Over 6 dozen fake, rejected, would-be, could-be, or should-be Olympic Events. And I still have more for the Winter Olympics.

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