BS: What's Missing from the Athens Games?

Subject: RE: BS: What's Missing from the Athens Games?
From: Ebbie
Date: 29 Aug 04 - 02:25 AM

As a resident of the state that is/was home for the USA basketball team's Carlos Boozer and the hit-your-neighbor's target-by-accident shooter, my mind is too bemused to offer more suggestions.

In the basketball team's defense though, USA Olympic teams are pieced together from the collection of teams in the NBA- not players who have been playing together for aye- and this year's team is young with no top-of-the-heap stars.

Subject: RE: BS: What's Missing from the Athens Games?
From: robomatic
Date: 28 Aug 04 - 04:44 PM

Greg you must be some kind of communist.

Subject: RE: BS: What's Missing from the Athens Games?
From: Greg F.
Date: 28 Aug 04 - 10:08 AM

Amateur Athletes

Subject: RE: BS: What's Missing from the Athens Games?
From: GUEST,GROK
Date: 28 Aug 04 - 03:44 AM

Too true.

Subject: RE: BS: What's Missing from the Athens Games?
From: Dead Horse
Date: 27 Aug 04 - 07:57 PM

Over 80's nudist leapfrog. That's what's missing, mate.

Subject: RE: BS: What's Missing from the Athens Games?
From: M'Grath of Altcar
Date: 27 Aug 04 - 05:51 AM

Dog shooting. Maybe they had that before he opening ceremony.

Subject: RE: BS: What's Missing from the Athens Games?
From: Charley Noble
Date: 26 Aug 04 - 04:15 PM

Synchronized concertina playing

Dualing banjos

Washtub bass paddling competition

12-string guitar tuning contest

Cat-gut restringing fiddle contest (you DON'T want to hear the details)

Contracorners high hurdles

Balance and swing your partner, as far as you can!

Cheerily,
Charley Noble

Subject: RE: BS: What's Missing from the Athens Games?
From: Cats
Date: 26 Aug 04 - 10:04 AM

Then there's always the Mens 4 by fore-biter shanty relay.....

Subject: RE: BS: What's Missing from the Athens Games?
From: GUEST,GROK
Date: 26 Aug 04 - 03:32 AM

How bloody foolish can a person be? Water Polo? It would drown the horses!

Subject: RE: BS: What's Missing from the Athens Games?
From: The Fooles Troupe
Date: 26 Aug 04 - 01:32 AM

A combination of Wrestling and Water Polo - called Water Wrestling.

Subject: RE: BS: What's Missing from the Athens Games?
From: Burke
Date: 25 Aug 04 - 06:10 PM

Am I the only who finds it odd that there don't seem to be any signs in Greek? It hit me when I was looking at the balance beam with "Athens 2004" on it.

Subject: RE: BS: What's Missing from the Athens Games?
From: robomatic
Date: 25 Aug 04 - 01:44 PM

Olympic Bocce

Olympic Bowling

Olympic Horseshoes

Olympic Crossword

Olympic Scrabble

Olympic Competitive Eating (National Dish of Host Country or U.S.   State, i.e. Haggis, Lutefisk, Scrapple)

Olympic Hog Calling

Olympic Log Rolling (National Trees of All Nations)

Olympic Nose P*cking

Olympic Paperhanging

Olympic Painting (Face, Finger, By Numbers)

Olympic Beer Drinking ruled out due to doping complaints


Olympic Literary Criticism

Subject: RE: BS: What's Missing from the Athens Games?
From: GUEST
Date: 25 Aug 04 - 09:48 AM

Charley, the problem in the gymnastics was that "safe" routines were being given tariffs of 10. So it would be in your best interests to do one of the high scoring safe routines with few errors rather than risk your neck on the crowd pleasing risky elements. All it means is that the tariffs need to be looked at again (as i think they are every few years - usually when the women gymnasts start scoring perfect 10 scores a little too often).

Subject: RE: BS: What's Missing from the Athens Games?
From: GUEST
Date: 24 Aug 04 - 12:44 PM

" You mean that's a table man? I thought it was a big slab of chocolate.*

Subject: RE: BS: What's Missing from the Athens Games?
From: Wolfgang
Date: 24 Aug 04 - 12:40 PM

The alternative medal table: Which country has most doped athletes found out in the Olympics?

The host country is leading this table.

Wolfgang

Subject: RE: BS: What's Missing from the Athens Games?
From: Charley Noble
Date: 24 Aug 04 - 10:52 AM

The actual Olympics are even more mind buggling than many of the suggestions above.

How about a medal awarded to the player who wins the competition to dispute medal awards? Yesterday that award would have to have been awarded to the spectators who refused to pipe down until the judges reconsidered and upgraded their marks for the Russian high bar gymna
st Alexei Nemov. He still didn't medal but I certainly agree with the crowd that his 6 "releases" were brilliantly executed, far more demanding than what the medalists achieved, and if he had managed to "stick" his landing he would have won the gold.

Cheerily,
Charley Noble

Subject: RE: BS: What's Missing from the Athens Games?
From: sledge
Date: 24 Aug 04 - 09:14 AM

How about a mudcat olympics, moaning, bitching and whining would of course be the most hotly contested events.

Just enjoy it for the spectacle it is, if you don't like it, change channels on the tv, go to a session or read a book.

Sledge.

Subject: RE: BS: What's Missing from the Athens Games?
From: GUEST,m
Date: 23 Aug 04 - 04:08 PM

Sun bathing

Here's what I have in mind. Well, it's difficult to actually TELL you what I have in mind, but work with me on this. Wait for a sunny day. Got to a nearby beach, swim in the surf for thee minutes, get all nippley, and lie down. The first one dry, wins!

Creative tan-line design

The use of Canadian duct tape to block the sun's ray would not only give Canada's economy a much-needed boost, but also defoliate those hard-to-reach areas when the tape was torn off at the medal ceremony. An international panel of art critics would assess and judge based on balance, composition, etc. This would cause a problem for dark-skinned people, so they would be judged on the duct tape alone.

Farting competition

This event will speak for itself.

Subject: RE: BS: What's Missing from the Athens Games?
From: Bagpuss
Date: 23 Aug 04 - 11:29 AM

That last guest was me without me cookie (I ate it cos i was hungry).

Subject: RE: BS: What's Missing from the Athens Games?
From: GUEST
Date: 23 Aug 04 - 09:39 AM

Cluin, Hockey is in there. If you mean ice hockey, then Im sure that if anything that would be in the winter olympics (BTW thats when they have curling)

Subject: RE: BS: What's Missing from the Athens Games?
From: Roger the Skiffler
Date: 23 Aug 04 - 09:27 AM

Synchronised Tiddlywinks
Black Belt Yahtzee
Projectile vomiting (Tourists visiting Egypt and Dominican Republic expected to fight out the final)
100 yard backward hop


RtS
(OK, Roger, that's enough, calm down now, step away from the keyboard, take your meds...)

Subject: RE: BS: What's Missing from the Athens Games?
From: Cluin
Date: 20 Aug 04 - 10:41 AM

The Big 3 (in Canada):

Hockey

Curling

Lacrosse






Okay, Lacrosse is in there, but whoever gets to see the matches or hear how they went?

Subject: RE: BS: What's Missing from the Athens Games?
From: GUEST,noddy
Date: 20 Aug 04 - 04:11 AM

OOPS sailing...Well done girls.

Subject: RE: BS: What's Missing from the Athens Games?
From: GUEST,noddy
Date: 20 Aug 04 - 04:10 AM

come on now Wolfgang thats going a bit to far! No one expects there to be any!

Subject: RE: BS: What's Missing from the Athens Games?
From: Wolfgang
Date: 20 Aug 04 - 02:40 AM

British gold medals

Wolfgang

Subject: RE: BS: What's Missing from the Athens Games?
From: Cluin
Date: 18 Aug 04 - 05:57 PM

Women's Nude Beach Volleyball

Subject: RE: BS: What's Missing from the Athens Games?
From: GUEST
Date: 18 Aug 04 - 03:01 PM

custard juggling!

and I can't believe they aren't televising the jello diving competition.

Subject: RE: BS: What's Missing from the Athens Games?
From: belter
Date: 18 Aug 04 - 02:57 PM

buzkashi

Subject: RE: BS: What's Missing from the Athens Games?
From: GUEST,noddy
Date: 18 Aug 04 - 07:32 AM

a British football team.

Subject: RE: BS: What's Missing from the Athens Games?
From: George Papavgeris
Date: 18 Aug 04 - 06:35 AM

1. Synchronised Vacuuming
2. Freestyle Shopping
3. Rhythmic Crotch-rearranging
4. 4 x Bouzouki Medley
5. Long Distance Ballad Singing
6. Papparazzi Avoiding

Subject: RE: BS: What's Missing from the Athens Games?
From: Dave Bryant
Date: 18 Aug 04 - 06:11 AM

RtS - Over Eighties Nudist Leapfrog Team

The British team all tested positve for the banned drug Viagra, but they had a great time training and one member qualified for the nude pole-vaulting.

Subject: RE: BS: What's Missing from the Athens Games?
From: GUEST,noddy
Date: 18 Aug 04 - 05:04 AM

unbiased presenters.

Subject: RE: BS: What's Missing from the Athens Games?
From: Roger the Skiffler
Date: 18 Aug 04 - 03:55 AM

...and not forgetting the Kenneth Horne programme favourite: the Over Eighties Nudist Leapfrog Team!

RtS

Subject: RE: BS: What's Missing from the Athens Games?
From: belter
Date: 17 Aug 04 - 06:17 PM

I'd like to see some reasonable coverage of less popular sports. Like fencing. I once saw about 5 seconds of olimpic fencing coverage at about 1am a couple of olimics ago.

Another thing they should have is SCA stile armored combat. I think the could have individual, 5 person melee, and 100 fighter team batle.

Subject: RE: BS: What's Missing from the Athens Games?
From: GUEST,ritchie
Date: 17 Aug 04 - 06:06 PM

I think that there should be races where the contestants dress up in each qualifying round as a celebrity ie for one round as elvis, the next norman wisdom the next max wall until eventually the final when it should be a running backwards race wearing ...you pick!(whatever floats your boat)
I also think there should be a viewers vote, never mind how good someone is ..hey its reality lets get real.
If its all about representing your country then i think all the heads of state should take part.
just as a matter of interest when do the games start? Is it soon?
kali whatever Ritchie

Subject: RE: BS: What's Missing from the Athens Games?
From: Charley Noble
Date: 17 Aug 04 - 05:36 PM

Civility on the part of NBC's sports announcers. What a bunch of hacks, sports wannebees, and gossips.

It would be nice to line 'em up for an archery competition. They should be required to clean up after the equestrian competitions, using their bare hands. And when we finish with the announcers, let's line up the sponsor representatives.

Cheerily,
Charley Noble

Subject: RE: BS: What's Missing from the Athens Games?
From: Sttaw Legend
Date: 17 Aug 04 - 03:28 PM

UK medals ! (apart from harriWattsband winning the sequence diving)

Subject: RE: BS: What's Missing from the Athens Games?
From: Big Al Whittle
Date: 17 Aug 04 - 02:11 PM

I think its the weather.

It all looks a bit sweaty and uncomfortable. You'd have to be out of your head on drugs to start running and jumping round in that heat.

Subject: RE: BS: What's Missing from the Athens Games?
From: Clinton Hammond
Date: 17 Aug 04 - 01:36 PM

Missing?

How about the projected 15,000 stray dogs that 'experts' feared were to be poisoned in the street to make for a cleaner Athens?

http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/allnews/tm_objectid=14416209%26method=full%26siteid=50143%26headline=greeks--to-gas-15-000-dogs-before-olympics--name_page.html

(You'll have to copy & paste cause the link maker isn't working with this url for some reason... )

Where's the Mudcat 'outrage' on this one???

Subject: RE: BS: What's Missing from the Athens Games?
From: GUEST,Thighs fan,
Date: 17 Aug 04 - 01:19 PM

Caught sight of some coverage the other day, and it left me confused, which is very easy to do when dealing with sport.

It said they were going to show the football? Is there a UK footie team then? Is it the best of all nations playing? I never knew we had such a team. Who is the captain? If Becks was playing then I missed seeing his thighs.

Subject: RE: BS: What's Missing from the Athens Games?
From: akenaton
Date: 17 Aug 04 - 01:13 PM

Spectators.

Subject: RE: BS: What's Missing from the Athens Games?
From: GUEST,MarkS
Date: 17 Aug 04 - 01:10 PM

Any mention of shooting sports. There are 17 events. Anybody seen any coverage at all?
Mark

Subject: RE: BS: What's Missing from the Athens Games?
From: Bert
Date: 17 Aug 04 - 01:08 PM

Does anyone remember that made for TV drama back in the Sixties called "The Year of The Sex Olympics" ?

Subject: RE: BS: What's Missing from the Athens Games?
From: GUEST,Chongo Chimp
Date: 17 Aug 04 - 01:00 PM

A banana-peeling contest, a tree-climbing contest, and showgirls doing a can-can act.

Subject: RE: BS: What's Missing from the Athens Games?
From: JennyO
Date: 17 Aug 04 - 12:43 PM

The 100 metre grovel

musical chairs

Subject: RE: BS: What's Missing from the Athens Games?
From: Amergin
Date: 17 Aug 04 - 12:18 PM

barroom curling. barroom brawling. bodhran hurling.

Subject: RE: BS: What's Missing from the Athens Games?
From: Little Hawk
Date: 17 Aug 04 - 12:14 PM

William Shatner. In a thong.

Subject: RE: BS: What's Missing from the Athens Games?
From: JennyO
Date: 17 Aug 04 - 12:03 PM

Horizontal abseiling

Snakes and ladders - with REAL snakes and REAL ladders

Long distance gargling

Subject: RE: BS: What's Missing from the Athens Games?
From: Roger the Skiffler
Date: 17 Aug 04 - 09:19 AM

Underwater Scrabble
Strip Chess

RtS

Subject: RE: BS: What's Missing from the Athens Games?
From: Dave Bryant
Date: 17 Aug 04 - 08:32 AM

Transatlantic Bodhran race - using banjos as the paddles.

Kazoo Swallowing.