Saturday, April 04, 2015
My favorite Olympic sport no one knows about
I have always been kind of fascinated by the Olympic sports that seem to not exist during the intervening years. For example, here we have 2012 Olympic champion Laura Asaduaskaite of Lithuania, who won the gold in Modern Pentathlon, which consists of four events:
-- Fencing
-- Swimming
-- Equestrian (show jumping)
-- Running and shooting at stuff
Yeah, really, running and shooting at stuff. It's a three kilometer run-- with a gun-- where you stop to shoot at targets every kilometer. I mean… where do you practice that??? (I know-- everyone is saying "Detroit!" but I don't think that is fair).
From what I can tell, the Modern Pentathlon is based on the skills needed to rob liquor stores in the 1820's. If they were to modernize somewhat so that it was about robbing liquor stores now, the events would be:
-- running and shooting
-- stock car racing
-- hiding
-- boxing
Wouldn't that be a great sport for TV? (except maybe the Hiding competition).
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It's a sport with a cool history. It was started by a European nobleman who wanted to have a competition mimicking a calvaryman escaping a war zone.
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