Posted on 07/17/2023 10:15:37 AM PDT by mcenedo
DOODY!
Asymptotic to zero?
Now Budweiser will actually have an advertising avenue.
Ideal audience.
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That’s immediately what came to my mind
Anyhow, from the story:
The acrobatic team event, in particular, features lifts, throws and flips, and diving routines launched off the shoulders of teammates treading water below. It’s gymnastics on water and concussions are a risk.
If that's what it is, letting men compete is crazy. The strength differential will be overwhelming. But there's also this:
Another fear, apparently unfounded, is that women might resent the men competing in the sport. Men will compete in only team events at the Olympics. Teams have a maximum of eight members — with a limit of two men — which means men might crowd out some women.
So they're creating a mixed/coed event, like pairs skating?
The story says that men have participated in synchronized swimming for decades. Ok. I can believe that. And I'm not going to make snarky remarks about them all being gay. Maybe, maybe not. Don't know, don't care.
Nor do I care about synchronized swimming at all. It shouldn't be in the Olympics. It's water ballet, which I suppose is fine, and I can see that it certainly can involve a lot of conditioning and stamina, but a competitive sport? No, and I don't like figure skating either, but that's another story. Competitive sports should involve objective measurements and direct head to head competition, not purely subjective grading of artistic quality.
Oh well, we lost that argument a long time ago. Maybe we should lobby for competitive freeping to become an Olympic sport. That involves stamina too, and it probably has more participants than synchronized swimming. It's also gender neutral, which should be a big selling point nowadays.
I don't want to boast, but I might look good on a Wheaties box....
You can see it at McDonald’s when they’re out of chicken nuggets.
Fags
I’ll watch a little of the summer and winter olympics, but only for a little while. And even then I’ll watch only the ones that aren’t decided by judges (i.e. I’ll watch events where the winner is the first across the finish line, or does the highest high jump, or fastest time in the downhill, etc.).
Agreed on subjective sports.
Just another reason I no longer watch or care about the games. They’re in Paris next year. Perhaps the muzzies can liven things up but I still won’t watch.
Maybe add the Molotov cocktail toss…
I also agree...
I call the difference “Real Sports” if the fan can tell who wins when the completion is over and “Sports Entertainment” if fan has to wait for somebody to tell them who wins (not “won”).
I came up with that as a kid after watching the 1972 men’s Olympic basketball finals...
Was that the Russians get three tries game?
I’d go and loudly LMFAO!
Next there’ll be some guy waving a ribbon on a stick.
No ribbon twirling in the olimpix?
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