Poll: Participating in The Olympics

[Sleepy Owl]

 

Chingus, the wait is over and Tokyo Olympics 2020 have finally started. Scheduled to have taken place a year ago, most of us must have been disappointed for it to be have been postponed for a year and also with the cancellation news going around. But here we are and it has already started. 

 

 

We EOs have come up with a Poll on the Olympic Games. So Chingus, if you were to participate in Olympic Games, which game would you choose? I am sure a lot of us have imagined to be participating in the Olympic Games at least once. So let's do it again, and pretend we have the athletic talent and can do whatever sport we enjoy watching. 

 

 

We have come up with a list of Sports being played in Olympics but, due to technical limitations of having only 20 options per category, we came up with this current list. We have grouped some of the sports under one general heading. For example, sports like "Swimming" includes all kind of swimming games being played in the Olympics.

 

We have Divided the Olympics event into three lists. 

 

Category A: This list contains the "Athletics", "Gymnastics" and "Aquatic" events. 

Category B: This involves the sports which are being played/can be played as a team.

Category C: Ths involves the events that come into the martial arts and the rest of the games. 

 

 

Not wasting much time, here we are with the list.

 

Category A

 

1. Short Sprint Race (100/200/400m)

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2. Long Distance Race (800/1500/5000/10000m)

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3. Hurdles Race (100/400m)

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4. Steeplechase Race

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5. Relay Race/Mixed Relay Race

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6. High Jump/Long Jump/Triple Jump

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7. Shot Put

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8. Pole Vault

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9. Discus Throw/Hammer Throw/Javeline Throw

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10. Rowing

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11. Diving

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12. Surfing

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13. Swimming

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14. Canoe/Kayaking

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15. Sailing

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16. Triathlon

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17. Marathon

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18. Gymnastics

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19. Trampoline

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Category B

 

1. Basketball

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2. Volleyball

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3. Hockey

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4. Beach Volleyball

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5. Table Tennis

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6. Tennis

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7. Rugby

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8. Handball

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9. Football

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10. Baseball Softball

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11. Badminton

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12. Water Polo

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Category C

 

1. Judo

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2. Karate

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3. Taekwondo

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4. Fencing

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5. Shooting

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6. Wrestling

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7. Boxing

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8. Archery

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9. Weightlifting

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10. Equestrian

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11. Modern Pentathlon

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12. Skateboarding

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13. Cycling

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14. Sport Climbing

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Since we are talking about participating in the Olympic Games, maybe you could also tell us when and what made you watch the Olympic Games for the first time, about your fondest memories from Olympic Games and why you like this interesting sports event, which many consider to be among the oldest ones. 

 

 

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[Yinye]

The only sports that I enjoy and have some ability are badminton and bowling; but of course no where near any competitive level.

 

I always joke that if I had to run or pull myself up to survive a zombie or serial killer, I may not make it lol. Also every single time I have played volleyball, I got hit in the head - so I refuse to play now lol. 

[MayanEcho]

Thanks for the tag @Sleepy Owl! I can really just choose one though which I've loved playing, and that's archery.

 

My other favourite events have something to do with music. One would be synchronised swimming:

 

 

And the free skating. I loved the skater below. 

 

 

[gm4queen]

guys!

Thanks @Sleepy Owl chingu for the tag! I am not a heavy sports lady! Always prefer light sports!

He he.. Looking forward to see what others ladies think of!

 

[serenilmauve]

I just discovered that Olympics added surfing as one of their disciplines;) Cool;)) 

 

So jealous of Olympics sportsmen and sportswomen;) Like being active and learning new sports, but still I’m the best at doing nothing  

[sadthe1st]

i spent the whole weekend watching olympics!!

 

my friend and i brought lots of food to a friend's place on sat and we literally became couch potato cheerleaders for archery mixed team

 

 

seriously, these 2 archers are so young! and confident!!

 

not forgetting, their sponsors are really good with their attires too! they have the most fashionable caps!

 

the women's 4x100 relay swimming on sat was amazing too!

 

https://olympics.com/tokyo-2020/en/news/videos/australia-women-s-4x100m-freestyle-relay-team-break-world-record

 

we kept eating chips and screaming at the insane speed the australian golden girls swam in the pool!!

 

and for the whole of sunday, i was on whatsapp group chat with my friends watching the women's team archery and artistic gymnastics.

 

once again, archery matches were really exciting for the top 4 teams!

 

 

@Sleepy Owl maybe we should have a mopping competition on +/- thread soon..

 

@LeftCoastOppa @Ameera Ali @partyon

 

 

for the poll.. i'm not a sporty person.. although i can eat potato chips at incredulous speed..

i can't swim.. doesn't respond too well for music.. hahahaha but i can cheer!!

[larus]

5 minutes ago, serenilmauve said:

Like being active and learning new sports, but still I’m the best at doing nothing 

Same. I like a lot of sports but I watched them on TV.

 

If I would have liked to do sports that use music, equestrian or archery. I like swimming and fencing the most but those athletes who practice these sports are tall and I am not. So dream on.

 

[serenilmauve]

@larus the thing about sports… most of them really hard to learn and maintain needed frequency of lessons/training to learn them properly and at proficient level. I spent 3 years, countless falls and spend a lot of money to learn how to ski good (which is my favorite sport so far) lol And still struggle from time to time  

 

I’m still waiting when Olympics adds “doing nothing” as their discipline, I think it will be the most boring, but also the most competitive one 

 

[LeftCoastOppa]

42 minutes ago, sadthe1st said:

@Sleepy Owl maybe we should have a mopping competition on +/- thread soon..

 

@LeftCoastOppa @Ameera Ali @partyon

 

Sorry, I'm busy refereeing Womens Beach Volleyball 

[ferily]

As soon as I saw the first few events in category A, I was thinking, heckkk NO would I do those!! I dislike running so I don’t think I would ever do a running event in the Olympics..

 

I would either want to do archery or volleyball/beach volleyball 

[larus]

59 minutes ago, serenilmauve said:

I’m still waiting when Olympic adds “doing nothing” as their discipline, I think it will be the most boring, but also the most competitive one

Doing nothing is an anti-sport. But I agree that it will be the most competitive (with many contestants) and hard to diferentiate the winner.

[willenette]

1 hour ago, Yinye said:

The only sports that I enjoy and have some ability are badminton and bowling; but of course no where near any competitive level.

 

I always joke that if I had to run or pull myself up to survive a zombie or serial killer, I may not make it lol. Also every single time I have played volleyball, I got hit in the head - so I refuse to play now lol. 

 

@Yinye, I also enjoy badminton, that's why, I voted for it. Category A has "none of the above" winning....hahaha - and I'm one of them. 

[serenilmauve]

15 minutes ago, larus said:

Doing nothing is an anti-sport. But I agree that it will be the most competitive and hard to diferentiate the winner.

 E-sport is also a sport… for some reasons  So, everything that involves competition is a sport for me (jk xD) lol

[Sleepy Owl]

@ferily Chingu I was so bad at running, would usually come last or would be among the last 3 to finish the race, so nope, I wouldn't really want to be a runner in the Olympics either 

@serenilmauve Chingu, being a super lazy person, I would love they officially make "Doing Nothing" an event in the Olympics, it is about time they recognize it as sports too 

 

42 minutes ago, LeftCoastOppa said:

 

Sorry, I'm busy refereeing Womens Beach Volleyball 

 

 

1 hour ago, sadthe1st said:

@Sleepy Owl maybe we should have a mopping competition on +/- thread soon..

 

 

Well Chingu, with all the mopping competition being constantly talked about, I wonder if The Olympics Committee will recognize Mopping as a Sports event too 

 

2 hours ago, Yinye said:

I always joke that if I had to run or pull myself up to survive a zombie or serial killer, I may not make it lol. Also every single time I have played volleyball, I got hit in the head - so I refuse to play now lol. 

 

Well Chingu, seeing this post, I feel super motivated to work on my running skills since as I said above, I was just too bad at it 

 

I also love Badminton, used to play a lot during my school days. Didn't play it for years now. 

 

2 hours ago, MayanEcho said:

Thanks for the tag @Sleepy Owl! I can really just choose one though which I've loved playing, and that's archery.

 

 

I didn't get a chance to try my hands at Archery, but I would definitely try it. Looks cool to me 

 

1 hour ago, larus said:

Same. I like a lot of sports but I watched them on TV.

 

If I would have liked to do sports that use music, equestrian or archery. I like swimming and fencing the most but those athletes who practice these sports are tall and I am not. So dream on.

 

There is something special about fencing, while I don't really like to try it out, it is always interesting to watch for me. 

 

 

54 minutes ago, willenette said:

 

@Yinye, I also enjoy badminton, that's why, I voted for it. Category A has "none of the above" winning....hahaha - and I'm one of them.

 

Talking about Badminton, it is opposite of Fencing for me. I love playing it more than watching it 

[MayanEcho]

9 minutes ago, Sleepy Owl said:

I didn't get a chance to try my hands at Archery, but I would definitely try it. Looks cool to me 

 

When you do, make sure you have your bottle of arnica oil for your inner arm and elbow.  

[willenette]

15 minutes ago, Sleepy Owl said:

@ferily Chingu I was so bad at running, would usually come last or would be among the last 3 to finish the race, so nope, I wouldn't really want to be a runner in the Olympics either

@serenilmauve Chingu, being a super lazy person, I would love they officially make "Doing Nothing" an event in the Olympics, it is about time they recognize it as sports too

 

 

Well Chingu, with all the mopping competition being constantly talked about, I wonder if The Olympics Committee will recognize Mopping as a Sports event too 

 

 

Well Chingu, seeing this post, I feel super motivated to work on my running skills since as I said above, I was just too bad at it 

 

I also love Badminton, used to play a lot during my school days. Didn't play it for years now. 

 

 

I didn't get a chance to try my hands at Archery, but I would definitely try it. Looks cool to me 

 

 

There is something special about fencing, while I don't really like to try it out, it is always interesting to watch for me. 

 

 

 

Talking about Badminton, it is opposite of Fencing for me. I love playing it more than watching it

 

@Sleepy Owl, fencing is an incredibly physical and tiring sport. It takes a LOT of muscle to fence, and a lot of stamina to keep going all the way through a match. There are no hard and fast rules to what age you should start fencing, but, my brother started early, he starts around age 9. Most fencing clubs will not accept children under age 7 as the balance and hand-eye co-ordination needed to fence are not sufficiently well developed before age 7. Fencing is expensive because it requires special equipment. The equipment are DESIGNED specifically for this sport. The sword themselves are not really swords at all. They're just metal rods that bend and flex which something that a real sword doesn't have. 

 

[serenilmauve]

@Sleepy Owl Olympics should start being inclusive for lazy and untalented in active sports people too 

 

P.S. I think most people like fencing because they look cool;)) I certainly do 

[willenette]

18 minutes ago, MayanEcho said:

 

When you do, make sure you have your bottle of arnica oil for your inner arm and elbow.  

 

@MayanEcho, true - this is good.  Arnica oil is commonly used in aromatherapy as a carrier oil. I love the scent. It has a pleasant pineapple-like scent that is relaxing. Aloe is also similar to this oil. 

[larus]

44 minutes ago, Sleepy Owl said:

There is something special about fencing, while I don't really like to try it out, it is always interesting to watch for me.

 

All sports are beautiful in their own way. I was/am fascinating by fencing. It is an incredible sport. It is mentally engaging, very fast and intense, physically demanding.

 

 

13 minutes ago, serenilmauve said:

P.S. I think most people like fencing because they look cool;)) I certainly do 

 

Oh yeah...

The ancestors of modern fencing look cool. 

 

The ancestors of modern fencing look cool. 

[Ameera Ali]

 

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@Sleepy Owl maybe we should have a mopping competition on +/- thread soon..

 

@LeftCoastOppa @Ameera Ali @partyon

 

 

@LeftCoastOppa , @Sleepy Owl can take break from mopping, you wouldn’t know  difference between our ( me & my twin  @partyon ) drooling from swimmer splashing 

 

 

 

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