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Start with 100m, end with marathon. 100m runner
hands
baton to 200m runner who hands to 400m etc. Work in
hurdles and steeplechase. Winner is team that finishes
the
last leg, marathon, first.
Variant Alpha:
The longer-distance events would probably have outsized
importance in the
overall result, e.g., Kenya would
probably beat Jamaica on just the effort of Eliud
Kipchoge's effort alone. To counter that, add more
sprint
legs and middle distance legs, e.g., 20x100m, 10x200m,
...
2x1500m.
Variant Beta:
Don't run as relay. Count points, kind of like in
decathlon,
depending on result in each race.
Variant Gamma:
Like Variant Beta, but use a staggered start for the
marathon leg based on the scores at that point. I.e., the
team with the best score after 10K starts first by a
margin
that is a function of how many points ahead they are.
Variant Delta:
Mixed team with both men and women. Each team must
have an equal number of men and women. However,
only
one per distance. Pick your team accordingly.
Triathlon Mixed Relay, Tokyo 2020
https://www.youtube...watch?v=VItNFdBfR4o
The British, the British, the British are best! [DrBob, Aug 10 2021]
Random Olympics
Random_20Olympics
[hippo, Aug 10 2021]
A hop. The Hop, specifically.
https://www.youtube...watch?v=U3KjDpvmtwU
[whatrock, Aug 16 2021]
Darts, Drinking
https://www.youtube...watch?v=vqxXNZcIdwM
Legendary sketch from Not The Nine O'Clock News. [DrBob, Aug 18 2021]
[link]
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Not quite the same, but in similar spirit, is the triathlon mixed relay. Something that the Brits turn out to be rather good at!
In order to make your race more entertaining, in true halfbakery style, your team of runners should draw lots to see which leg they have to run. |
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Runners have to run in knee-deep fluid, the viscosity to be proportional to the distance covered. So for the longest distance, air or perhaps some super-lightweight liquid. For the shortest distances, treacle. |
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At first I thought 'multi-directional relay race,' which I
believe I could win if only I could figure out the
handoff. "He's got amazing speed!" "I think his
choice of running straight down the mountainside
instead of along the course road had something to
do with that..." |
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Or there's two-dimensional relay; two race tracks, two climbing
walls, two batons: the athlete waiting at the end of the upper track
(which is also the top of the second climbing wall) must collect both
batons before proceeding to the next leg. If the next leg were a
tightrope walk, they could use the pair of batons for balance. |
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//Runners have to run in knee-deep fluid, the viscosity to
be proportional to the distance covered// - "inversely
proportional" I think you mean |
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Oh no, does it really fall to me to propose a tasty yellow
non-newtonian fluid for this? |
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Great idea though + particularly with [DrBob]'s amendment. |
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// your team of runners should draw lots to see which leg they have to
run // |
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I would think that they'd be able to run on both legs otherwise it
wouldn't be a relay but a hop (link). |
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A great leveller in the Olympics would the inclusion of a drinking section in each event. This would require each of the competitors to stop and sink half a dozen pints of beer within a time limit before proceeding. |
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They already do this in darts |
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//sink half a dozen pints of beer//
I couldn't drink that much of ANYTHING in one sitting. I don't
know how people do that every weekend.
One pint would impair an athlete enough to make a
difference. |
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^ so perhaps limit the drinking to certain events, like
downhill skiing? |
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//They already do this in darts//
linky. |
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[DrBob] I had exactly that sketch in mind when I wrote
that! |
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