Olympics

Veilan · Post by **Veilan** » Thu Aug 21, 2008 11:21 pm

I'm still crying about the horsies. That was historical epic fael

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NickD · Post by **NickD** » Thu Aug 21, 2008 11:24 pm

Equestrian is something NZ used to be historically pretty good at... but what an absolutely boring event!! Swap it for jousting or something!

Veilan · Post by **Veilan** » Thu Aug 21, 2008 11:25 pm

Huh? It's one of the more awesome sports to watch. Apart from women's beach volleyball...

NickD · Post by **NickD** » Thu Aug 21, 2008 11:28 pm

It's a bunch of knobs trotting around and jumping over fences like they're nobility on a foxhunt. Do the horses have to be born and bred in the country they're representing too?

Veilan · Post by **Veilan** » Thu Aug 21, 2008 11:39 pm

No, horses can have a different nationality than the rider. And it's just awesome to see the amount of unison they can achieve in motion - it's truly something noble, as it takes a fuckload of training.

I can only recommend you lads to visit the Hofreitschule in Vienna sometime. Awesome!

NickD · Post by **NickD** » Thu Aug 21, 2008 11:46 pm

Veilan wrote:No, horses can have a different nationality than the rider. And it's just awesome to see the amount of unison they can achieve in motion - it's truly something noble, as it takes a fuckload of training.

I can only recommend you lads to visit the Hofreitschule in Vienna sometime. Awesome!

So then it stops becoming about which country is the best and starts becoming about what country can afford the best horses!

Belongs in the bin with the gymnastic and all the other "artistic" events.

Veilan · Post by **Veilan** » Fri Aug 22, 2008 12:10 am

Not really, since you need years of training between horse and rider together. It's not like you can just buy the "best" horse out there, put some good dude or dudette on it, and think it'll work out next game. There's a reason why it's always the best "couple" that wins. Both need a good amount of individual skill, and then they need the synergy to get it to work together. People will naturally invest strongly in offspring from renowned horses, but if the horse you trained with for years turns out to suck in the end - then your investment proved rather futile.

I'm glad you can come to conclusions and base your opinions on so much as your imagination though

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Avaz · Post by **Avaz** » Fri Aug 22, 2008 3:38 am

I heard a stand up comic recently do a bit about the Olympics and how boring it is. He suggested the way to make it more interesting is to add defense.

Case in point: The Vault.

The normal competition is a gymnast takes a nice running start, jumps onto a springy platform, bounces off of a pommel horse thingie, does some mid-air acrobatics and lands. Well, what if you added a person with a large padded bat trying to take them out in the meantime? That would make it a lot more fun to watch, right?!

Or take, say, still rings or balance beam. Add another person on there trying to knock them over. All of a sudden, a boring "sport" becomes suddenly very entertaining to watch!

WHO'S WITH ME!

NickD · Post by **NickD** » Fri Aug 22, 2008 4:09 am

And then you can add a break every 5 minutes into everything so the TV network can put in adverts, just like all American sports, right?

AsuraKing · Post by **AsuraKing** » Fri Aug 22, 2008 3:59 pm

Anyone happen to see the power walking? they look like they're made out of jello... or maybe like this:

Mizbiz · Post by **Mizbiz** » Sat Aug 23, 2008 10:22 am

Burt · Post by **Burt** » Sat Aug 23, 2008 5:10 pm

The Russians finally overtook us. God damn communists.

zicada · Post by **zicada** » Sat Aug 23, 2008 6:05 pm

2 golds today for Norway!

GO GO GO!

HATEFACE · Post by **HATEFACE** » Sat Aug 23, 2008 9:05 pm

Someone needs to petition the olympics for a jousting competition. The winner could take the horse if the other rider falls. The only way to beat china is to steal all their horses.