@alice @chargen You already have the 100m hurdles, 200m hurdles and 400m hurdles but hear me out…

A marathon full of hurdles. 🤔

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For me you are standing around in a kitchen cooking or whatever. And things just fall and you have to react and catch them.

Could do other locations but it's random things falling and reaction catching them.

And the knife could fall and you get a penalty for trying to catch it.

@alice The archery answer to biathlon, or whatever you call what Blumineck does with a bow and a pole...
https://youtu.be/-mm5e2CGzSM

@alice @chargen is replace the javelin in javelin throw with corrupt politicians

@alice @chargen Shot put beer pong.

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News-reading endurance

@alice @chargen Olympic Sleeping

@alice @chargen Bicycle repair racing - instead of one super nice bike you ride the whole time, you get a series of dodgy garage sale bikes that are all broken in some way. Put your first bike in a repair stand, get it rideable, ride 20 km, then repair the next bike for the next set of laps...

@alice Breakdance Curling.

Perform while gliding slowly down a brushed ice path to a goal.

Actually have a whole slew of ideas for things that could be combined with curling. Target shooting, Dressage, Shotput...

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@alice @chargen grocery store time trials.
All athletes get a list of 10 items they have to take from the shelves and the first to place them all, intact, on the checkout counter wins.
Start is at the automatic door, and they are not allowed a shopping cart.
And it's a real functioning store, with pedestrian traffic and such.
Test of speed, orienteering, dexterity, strength, balance, itemsrange from apple to large bag of catfood.

3 attempts for each, list changes, shortest combined time wins.

@alice @chargen flopping - like in soccer, but no actual soccer game takes place, it's just the flopping.

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I would make Ninja Warrior an official event. Most athletes would be filtered by the qualifying round. Complete stage one within the set time? Bronze. Second stage? Silver. Complete the final stage? Gold.

Every time an athlete earns a gold, they make the course more difficult.

I quite like obstacle course competitions on the whole, but to see one at an Olympic level? It would be unbelievable.
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@alice @chargen Competitive whip-handling. Multiple graded segments: applying a specific amount of force to a target, and a timed segment where you have to hit as many targets as possible.

@alice @chargen there's the duathlon and the biathlon, I introduce the dosathlon: long-distance parkour and atlatl target throwing