TIL that the longest javelin throw was 99.52 meters using a now illegal technique that was considered "out of control". No one has broken this record with modern javelin rules.
TIL that the longest javelin throw was 99.52 meters using a now illegal technique that was considered "out of control". No one has broken this record with modern javelin rules.
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I say we bring back team sports - two or more groups throwing javelins at each other.
It can be payed either turn based or in real time.
... now that I think about it, with hammers & some body armour would be
even betternot as good but still fun.All sports would be better if they were full contact - especially golf. Hear me out.
Everybody goes at the same time; you get points for speed instead of number of shots. You can an use your clubs to attack other players, so pads and a helmet are needed. You play in the summer. You're caddy also brings water and Gatorade. Heat stroke/exhaustion is a DQ.
Not exactly on point, but disturbingly close:
I agree, and it appears that I am not the only one
If we throw out the idea that the Games were meant to mark a cessation in hostilities, then let's not go halfway.
Get the SCA in there with their plastic armour and rattan swords and let's have 1:1 and M:M combat. I want chariot races. I want simulated boarding actions from 'ships'. I want a new colosseum built every 4 years and events 24/7 to a roaring crowd punctuated only by the sound of pneumatic t-shirt cannons. When they're done, use them for death-row criminals in actual gear to fight for PPV for victim compensation. MORTAL COMBAAAAAAAT
Full on gladiator combat games is absolutely on my late stage capitalism bingo card. UFC is a baby step on that path.
It's way more profitable to keep athletes alive and build a brand around them
Well obviously you rig them so you have someone survive and become popular, but you have to take them out before their 10th fight/race so they don't earn their freedom.