**** your face thursday

As an American (making me on expert on sports) I can only rationalize the existence of Field Hockey (lol its like they took the name of a good sport to try to add credibility to a lolsport), Handball (indoor soccer for people w/o skills), Trampoline (lolwut?) Badminton (outdoor grandma table tennis) and rhythmic gymnastics (seriously? I mean wtf is that ****, if you can't jump up and down on the balance beam, you're not a gymnast, go back from whence you came) as concessions made by America to make sure some medals get spread around to the other nations so that Belarus and Norway and the like even bother to show up.

Why are we not better at shooting? It's a disgrace.

You take that back, right now!

I asked a friend of mine who is an instructor at the youth level for trap shooting and he has no explanation for why the US is sucking it up in the shooting sports.

uhhhh, please specify your objections

Yeah, I thought that too. You're supposed to have enough practice

Sheep objects to every single statement made in Mr. Cigar's post.

You're just mad that Germany won the limbo contest.

Exactly, that event was put there to entice the non-sprinting Caribbean nations to join in, Germany was very greedy in taking that medal away from them...

What did we win? You mean that Hambüchen gold? Unlike some others, we won so many golds that it's hard to keep track

Natamus for mod.

Sammy punishing his hole again.

+1

Not enough cops are Olympians ldo

Although Dan's post contains a few distinctively wrong elements I am not arguing against it mainly because of his insightful description of handball

I decided to go with it on the field hockey observation alone

Possible that I read your post, forgot that I read it, then flat out stole it. Oops.

Let's add an assault rifle event. Customs might be a pain, though.

Thanks for the support!

I do realize I was being overly harsh to some degree, but you gotta admit there are plenty of lolsports in the Olympics these days, and others that only still exist b/c of Olympics, I personally believe that if field hockey was no longer an Olympic event, it would die out in less than 20 years.

OOOOOOOOH! I could win a medal in assault rifle, or better yet machine gunning.

Would the goal of assault riffle/machine gun to be accurate or to mow down as many innocent citizens as possible in a given amount of time?

Two contests

1. Traditional - Groups of targets on a pop up range from 50m to 400m, 40 targets total in the prelim rounds with shooters given 60 rounds each target is up for 3-5 seconds. Intermediate rounds would introduce a target of a color easily distinguishable from the others that would be a non target with penalties for shooting it. Medal Round would feature 50 targets and shooters would be given 50 rounds of ammunition, still would have the don't shoot targets but penalty would increase. in the event of ties, sudden death pop ups, first miss and you're done.

2. Modern (aka Spree, or American) - Closed range set in urban environment, all targets are "live" and would be placed in windows, collected near bus stops etc. Shooters will have a predetermined amount of time and ammo to score hits on as many unique targets as possible, bonus points awarded for headshots and completing the course with time to spare, penalties for leftover ammo.

That was amazingly detailed and thought out and I think it works!

OK, packing it up and leaving work. Be back on Tuesday. Gonna drink and gambol in the Bahamas/Cruise ship all weekend starting tomorrow morning.