With the Olympics just a few weeks away, my question for you today is if you could be an Olympic athlete, what sport would you want to compete in? It can be summer or winter. Unfortunately competitive eating is not yet an Olympic sport.
Awwwww Enty, you spoilsport. Are there any sitting down sports? Okay, I always enjoyed watching the speed-skating in the Winter Olympics. So I’d like to be a speed-skater. I probably would be a synchronized swimmer in the Summer Games......but that still doesn’t seem like a proper sport. What about Olympic Dominoes Champ? Yes, I can see me doing that. Anyway, the games are in my country this year....how cool is that? I might get my gold...if I can find my box of dominoes. Sorry for the long post.
Running. I run, but I'm not a natural at all. I'm pretty slow even with tons of work at it. I'd love to be able to run like the wind! Also, because ice skating seems so cool, that too!
Triathlon. I like having a variety of sports so I don't get bored, and triathletes have amazing bodies. I'd also love tennis, because then i would be good enough to play on the women's tour.
I swam competitively in junior high but couldn't see doing that on an Olympic level. Speed skating seems pretty cool--flying down the track. My all-time fave Olympic sport for watching, however, is curling. Seriously, I'm hopelessly addicted.
For the summer I'd want to do diving or swimming, for winter I'd want to do figure skating or the biathalon (x-country skiing & shooting). It's too bad that playing Zelda isn't an Olympic sport, I'd be awesome at that.
Can't say I'd want to compete in anything - not my bag. But I LOVE me some Olympics, baby. LOVE. Team Frufra goes wall to wall with the Olympic coverage every two years. It's the best!
Probably gymnastics. I would love to go to the Olympics again. I worked at the Sydney 2000 Olympics and had the time of my life. I worked with people from all over the world. It was like an adult summer camp. Somehow after all our partying we still managed to get ourselves to work (usually hung over but whatever we were there).
I was a swimmer and the 100 meter freestyle was my favorite event. I was never good at distance swims; I was always too impatient to pace myself well. I liked the all out sprints the best.
Soccer!!!!! Bc our girls are the best and this year they are going to bring home the gold!!!!!
I grew up playing soccer but I always wanted to play hockey bc a hockey puck is the most difficult shot to block in sports. Even Agassi would train as a goalie with one of the hockey teams. But there were no girls hockey teams in the 1990s here. A classmate of mine, Richard Chu's 3 years younger sister was able to get on the first girls hockey team here. Guess what? She got olympic gold!! So hockey is my biggest regret lol
Oh def Luge or Bobsledding. Though the extreme flexibility coupled with a form of dance that gymnastics would allow, I have to go with the pure adrenaline of dangerous speed.
Figure skating! Even though I've never done it, for some reason I can imagine how it feels throughout my whole body. I've visualized doing a triple lutz like 20,000 times.
I was a serious downhill skiing racer in my teens, but never had any wish to do it in the Olympics.
There's lots of drinking in curling so I'd do that!
Earlier this year, my nieces participated in the junior world curling championship in Sweden. I'm still pissed off at my husband for not bucking up the money for us to go watch. It's not like we don't have it. He's just a tightass.
Swimming, even though I love gymnastics. I did gymnastics for awhile - but the impacts are killer. I would think that swimming athletes might get injured less. Diving I suppose is a happy medium.
Equestrian for me. I competed internationally as a teenager and was in a feeder programme for potential Olympic squad members but my parents pulled the plug so that I concentrated on my studies.
Mamaroni---That's 'Rhythmic Gymnastics'---and that's what I was coming to choose. Grown women do that sport, not little kids. They're actually kinda sexy, with post-pubescent hips n' such.
If I were better with terror, I would choose figure skating. One false move, and you're twirling your face right into the rock-hard ice! I just don't think I could do it. But I like the event a lot.
I couldn't care less about most sports at any other point but I am also an Olympics junkie. I now work in an area where we have TVs everywhere plus a very impressive state of the art ginormous video wall. I don't know how I'm going to resist. Plus it's in a city I love....
Love the Show Jumping and the 3 day event. I was taught to ride as a kid by an Olympic rider. I wasn't good,but loved it. Would love to have a horse now, but would only get a Rescue Horse.
Curling. The town I grew up in is building a world class curling arena to draw international competition. I was watching curling when I was 7. I loved it.
Rhythmic gymnastics, figure skating, archery--that last one is the only one I could theoretically ever be any good at. I keep meaning to get in touch w/some of the SCA archers, damn it...
I cry when ever Team USA wins a medal. Snot and sobbing when we win gold. I am so proud of us. And it brings us together as a country for a short time.
What's the one where you x-country ski then shoot a rifle? It just seems badass on a number of levels.
Not badass: Men's Olympic Speedwalking. One of the funniest things I've ever happened upon on TV. Imagine an international parade of Cosmo Kramers all going for gold.
Figure skating was the only competitive sport I've ever participated in, and I can still do a single axel, so I choose that. Now where are my rusty (literally) skates?
LUGE.
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ReplyDeleteGymnastics.. For some reason I wish I had tried it when I was younger
ReplyDeleteGymnastics...I did it as a kid and was never anywhere near Olympic caliber, but I always enjoyed it. I did floor and beam...
ReplyDeleteSwimming...it was the first thing I wanted to be when I was a kid actually.
ReplyDeleteAwwwww Enty, you spoilsport. Are there any sitting down sports? Okay, I always enjoyed watching the speed-skating in the Winter Olympics. So I’d like to be a speed-skater. I probably would be a synchronized swimmer in the Summer Games......but that still doesn’t seem like a proper sport. What about Olympic Dominoes Champ? Yes, I can see me doing that. Anyway, the games are in my country this year....how cool is that? I might get my gold...if I can find my box of dominoes. Sorry for the long post.
ReplyDeleteRunning. I run, but I'm not a natural at all. I'm pretty slow even with tons of work at it.
ReplyDeleteI'd love to be able to run like the wind!
Also, because ice skating seems so cool, that too!
When I was young I dreamed of being a speed skater. I blame Gaetan Boucher and Hans Brinker and the Silver Skates.
ReplyDeleteBut now it would be bobsled or luge. For summer? That's a tough one. Swimming or javelin.
Luge would definitely be cool, but I would probably say equestrian events. Love to ride and would love to compete at that level.
ReplyDeleteFigure skater - I like the outfits. I also play tennis because of the outfits.
ReplyDeleteTriathlon. I like having a variety of sports so I don't get bored, and triathletes have amazing bodies. I'd also love tennis, because then i would be good enough to play on the women's tour.
ReplyDeleteCan I just skank myself out around the men's track and field athletes?
ReplyDeleteI swam competitively in junior high but couldn't see doing that on an Olympic level. Speed skating seems pretty cool--flying down the track. My all-time fave Olympic sport for watching, however, is curling. Seriously, I'm hopelessly addicted.
ReplyDeleteWinter Olympics; Skeleton sled, Bobsled, Downhill skiing
ReplyDeleteSummer Olympics; Pole Vault, or Decathlon
For the summer I'd want to do diving or swimming, for winter I'd want to do figure skating or the biathalon (x-country skiing & shooting). It's too bad that playing Zelda isn't an Olympic sport, I'd be awesome at that.
ReplyDeleteGymnastics and figure skating scare me. You would have to starve yourself, and your career would be over by age 20.
ReplyDeleteFigure Skating. I took lessons for about five years.
ReplyDeleteha! my husband said they already happened. I was like "and there was no fanfare that I saw? oh, the joys of not having cable."
ReplyDeletebut now i have tv, and it will be taken over by olympics ... booo.
and I'd compete in....idk whats that one thats kinda like shuffleboard on ice with the squeegees?
Curling.... love the mental aspect of the game.
ReplyDeleteEquestrian events
ReplyDeleteGymnastics and I am paying for my granddaughter to train at Nastia Lukin's place in Dallas.
ReplyDeleteCan't say I'd want to compete in anything - not my bag. But I LOVE me some Olympics, baby. LOVE. Team Frufra goes wall to wall with the Olympic coverage every two years. It's the best!
ReplyDeleteCan you tell I'm excited? USA, USA!!!
Beach volleyball, no doubt. It's so much fun
ReplyDeleteProbably gymnastics. I would love to go to the Olympics again. I worked at the Sydney 2000 Olympics and had the time of my life. I worked with people from all over the world. It was like an adult summer camp. Somehow after all our partying we still managed to get ourselves to work (usually hung over but whatever we were there).
ReplyDeleteGymnastics! I am always so impressed by what they make look so easy! Alas, I was 5'9" by age 12, so I was way too tall!
ReplyDeletewomen's ice hockey, I missed making the first team....~sad~
ReplyDeleteAlso curling.
Curling, because you can drink a beer while you're competing.
ReplyDeleteNormally I'd say swimming or starting power forward for the men's hoops team.
ReplyDeleteIn lieu of the rising face-eating zombie horde, however, I'm switching that dream to skeet shooting.
I was a swimmer and the 100 meter freestyle was my favorite event. I was never good at distance swims; I was always too impatient to pace myself well. I liked the all out sprints the best.
ReplyDeleteGymnastics - parallel bars.
ReplyDeletePistol shooting, for sure.
ReplyDeleteFigure Skating, then archery, then diving.
ReplyDeleteSoccer!!!!! Bc our girls are the best and this year they are going to bring home the gold!!!!!
ReplyDeleteI grew up playing soccer but I always wanted to play hockey bc a hockey puck is the most difficult shot to block in sports. Even Agassi would train as a goalie with one of the hockey teams. But there were no girls hockey teams in the 1990s here. A classmate of mine, Richard Chu's 3 years younger sister was able to get on the first girls hockey team here. Guess what? She got olympic gold!! So hockey is my biggest regret lol
Oh def Luge or Bobsledding. Though the extreme flexibility coupled with a form of dance that gymnastics would allow, I have to go with the pure adrenaline of dangerous speed.
ReplyDeleteWhat do you call the gymnastics like routines with the props...definitely would do the one with the ribbon
ReplyDeleteFigure skating! Even though I've never done it, for some reason I can imagine how it feels throughout my whole body. I've visualized doing a triple lutz like 20,000 times.
ReplyDeleteI was a serious downhill skiing racer in my teens, but never had any wish to do it in the Olympics.
I adore Michelle Kwan...figure skating.
ReplyDelete@FRufra - I am so with you. I LOVE the Olympics. If I could take all those days off from work and watch coverage 24/7 I totally would.
ReplyDeleteI couldn't care less about the Olympics or sports.
ReplyDeleteThere's lots of drinking in curling so I'd do that!
ReplyDeleteEarlier this year, my nieces participated in the junior world curling championship in Sweden. I'm still pissed off at my husband for not bucking up the money for us to go watch. It's not like we don't have it. He's just a tightass.
Swimming, even though I love gymnastics. I did gymnastics for awhile - but the impacts are killer. I would think that swimming athletes might get injured less. Diving I suppose is a happy medium.
ReplyDeleteEquestrian for me. I competed internationally as a teenager and was in a feeder programme for potential Olympic squad members but my parents pulled the plug so that I concentrated on my studies.
ReplyDeleteSince Canada's field hockey team has no chance of making the Olympics, well, ever, I'll go with soccer.
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ReplyDeleteMamaroni---That's 'Rhythmic Gymnastics'---and that's what I was coming to choose. Grown women do that sport, not little kids. They're actually kinda sexy, with post-pubescent hips n' such.
ReplyDeleteIf I were better with terror, I would choose figure skating. One false move, and you're twirling your face right into the rock-hard ice! I just don't think I could do it. But I like the event a lot.
I used to love watching Ice Skating, but I can't skate for shit. lol. I also love the floor routine for gymnastics bc I love dancing
ReplyDeleteActually, I probably just hide in the boys swimming locker room to spy on Ryan Locte or whatever his name is
ReplyDeleteFigure skating
ReplyDeleteShowjumping!
ReplyDeletedownhill skiing! i am actually WAY too much of a chicken to ever go that fast down a ski slope, but i'm obsessed with watching it and love to ski
ReplyDeleteSummer: Running
ReplyDeleteWinter: Snowboarding
Frufra, I'm super excited too! My b-day is opening night, cant wait to drink some beer and watch the opening ceremony! :D
figure skating or gymnastics
ReplyDeleteI love the Olympics, summer and winter. I would choose archery, or dressage.
ReplyDeleteWomen's hockey. As I always say, if you have to smile while you're doing it, it's not really a sport.
ReplyDeleteI couldn't care less about most sports at any other point but I am also an Olympics junkie. I now work in an area where we have TVs everywhere plus a very impressive state of the art ginormous video wall. I don't know how I'm going to resist. Plus it's in a city I love....
ReplyDelete@Krab, so figure skating isn't a sport?
ReplyDeleteLove the Show Jumping and the 3 day event. I was taught to ride as a kid by an Olympic rider. I wasn't good,but loved it. Would love to have a horse now, but would only get a Rescue Horse.
ReplyDeleteI used to dance so I guess rhythmic gymnastics would be my choice. I also think archery is bad ass.
ReplyDeleteGymnastics. Quit too early when I was a kid and have regretted it my whole life.
ReplyDeleteCurling. The town I grew up in is building a world class curling arena to draw international competition. I was watching curling when I was 7. I loved it.
ReplyDeleteGymnastics, Hockey, Bushido or Rugby, have competed in all and sorely regret giving them up!
ReplyDeleteEquestrian, for sure.
ReplyDeleteWrestling. I did it in high school and loved it.
ReplyDeleteSwimming!
ReplyDeleteWinter: figure skating, cross-country skiing, speed skating and biathlon
ReplyDeleteSummer: synchronized swimming and diving
Gymnastics. I want to twirl a big ribbon.
ReplyDeleteRhythmic gymnastics, figure skating, archery--that last one is the only one I could theoretically ever be any good at. I keep meaning to get in touch w/some of the SCA archers, damn it...
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ReplyDeleteSummer: Running long distances like marathons
ReplyDeleteWinter: Downhill skiing
Sand Volleyball
ReplyDeleteI cry when ever Team USA wins a medal. Snot and sobbing when we win gold. I am so proud of us. And it brings us together as a country for a short time.
ReplyDeleteWhat's the one where you x-country ski then shoot a rifle? It just seems badass on a number of levels.
ReplyDeleteNot badass: Men's Olympic Speedwalking. One of the funniest things I've ever happened upon on TV. Imagine an international parade of Cosmo Kramers all going for gold.
Archery to prepare for the coming zombie apocalypse.
ReplyDeletewomen's figure skating
ReplyDeleteI just think it would be fun to stand on the podium and sing star spangled banner off key and cry with my fist in the air like those dudes in 68.....
ReplyDeletepairs figure skating. how awesome would it be to be thrown up in the air and lifted up above your partners head to beautiful music?
ReplyDeletesecond choice; swim relay. but only if i didn't get the BIG muscular upper body they get. the under arm muscles on the women freak me out.
Gymnastics. My team mate was in the last olympics :)
ReplyDelete@Popnursing - it's biathlon, it's my favorite, too.
ReplyDeleteFigure skating was the only competitive sport I've ever participated in, and I can still do a single axel, so I choose that. Now where are my rusty (literally) skates?
ReplyDeleteSwimming or sailing -- Just put me in or on the water, and i'm a happy little camper. Competitive, too!
ReplyDeleteBeach volleyball, women's soccer, or track. Any of those would give me the best possible body without being too skinny!
ReplyDeleteAnother wannabe gymnast/figure skater here. Never mind that I have to be in a swimming pool to even do a handstand, or that I've never ice skated. :p
ReplyDeleteWhen I was younger and actually watched/cared about the Olympics...figure skating.
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