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Excellent! Another "sitting down" sport! - I'd like to see "Space Hopper racing" too. |
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[brevity] and a step closer to eternal damnataion. |
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Completely misread second word of idea title. |
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Yes, get Gary Glitter to step into a foot-powered water-going craft, and it wont be long before you've got a lynching on your hands. |
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Can the competitors be forced to queue for their boats, and be given marks for style, and eye-contact avoidance? |
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Perhaps there could also be an event in bemoaning the recent atmospheric conditions? |
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And another in maintaining a rigid upper mandibular labia, under increasingly distressing conditions. |
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For further GB golds I would also like to
suggest some kind of oar-powered land
vehicle race. Or landsailing perhaps. |
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Or (harking back to the origins of the Olympics in Ancient Greece), how about Galley racing? These would be large boats with sails and about 60 or so oarsmen each (and would use the strengths of the British team in rowing and sailing as well as our
high-tech materials expertise - ours would be the carbon-fibre Galley). |
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Galley racing is an awesome idea! |
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//Galley racing//
Running in kitchens is dangerous even on land - more so on-board a ship |
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Maybe there is an opportunity for "like in the movies" Olympic events; the competitor has to swim across a river, climb a cliff while still dripping wet, go a couple of rounds with some ugly henchmen, then solve a complex puzzle to rescue the heroine. |
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We drink to forget ...... |
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^Maybe that can be the new modern pentathlon, since the current one is no longer modern. |
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Also, there are human pedal powered hydrofoils that reach speeds of up to 40 kph when pedaled by world-class cyclists. |
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What about human-powered aircraft racing ? So far, a neglected area, we consider. |
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As of today, Team GB have won 18 medals in cycling and on boats. We would have nailed the Pedalo events and you know it. |
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Why does the Olympic team refer to itself as “Great
Britain”? Is it to deliberately snub the Irish? |
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Ireland are a separate country, and have no connection to GB, save that of speaking a version of English, except in legal documents, which are in a written in a type of gobbledegook called Irish. (a dying language of little use to man nor beast) |
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Yes, I know. That's my point. Why do residents of Northern
Ireland have to compete as part of “Team Great Britain”? |
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Because "Team United Kingdom of GB and Northern Ireland" is too much for the poor girl to carry during the opening ceremony.
Start adding "And Crown Dependencies of Jersey, Guernsey and the Isle of Man", and the poor girl would collapse. |
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//Northern Ireland// Sp.: Nornarn. |
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The full title is "Team Great Britain, Northern
Ireland, the Crown Dependencies, and all but
three of the British Overseas Territories" |
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