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Unrelated question: what's the easiest sport in which to become an Olympian between now and the 2024 Paris Olympics?
What you want is a sport that's obscure in your country. Don't need to compete if nobody else is applying to represent your country for it at the Olympics. Or so I've learned from Cool Runnings and Eddie the Eagle.
They changed that rule a while ago. You have to at least qualify in an internationally recognized competition.
I remember how, 20 years ago, I read that just knowing how to snowboard at the age of 14 was enough to be a very promising candidate for the winter Olympics in my country. I live in Brazil
I recall a story just a few years ago about a teenage girl being the only one in her division, so she did a few basic snowboard tricks and went home with first place. I can't find any articles about it now, unfortunately. I can't remember if it was the Olympics or some other competition.
So let me get this straight. You're not having any luck competing with regular schlubs in the real world, so you want to fake your way into a situation where you compete with a group of fitter and more attractive people?
Exactly, I would like to score with Olympic athletes, but I would like to exert minimal effort?
I just asked two AIs. Consensus is: shooting and pingpong
I don't think those AIs have watched a competitive ping pong match. Shooting/archery are probably ok, I'd also say curling is a solid option at least for the winter olympics
Ping pong needs skill absolutely but the endurance to run 100m with the best in the world takes quite a bit longer in addition to skill and technique
, he said from his armchair.
Why not both at the same time?
It's hard to use a rifle one handed, and you need a spare hand for the paddle?
Use the rifle as the paddle.
-10 gun saftey
Pretty sure like most sports you have to use in spec equipment, which means to simultaneously shoot and pingpong you'd have to dual wield.
I was shitposting
Well skeet shooting was a given
https://www.cracked.com/blog/the-7-easiest-olympic-events-to-win-medal-in
Maybe shooting or if you have the cash, dressage aka horse ballet.
A friend of mine shot skeet in the Olympics one year. His gun cost about $12k. He reloaded his own rounds and went through about 250-1000 rounds a day before training, roughly tripling that leading up to the event.
The gun was so expensive because the brand would take your old one on trade every year (for a relatively small fee) for a new one. The program was for people just like him.
At $12k it should include aimbot
How hard can high diving be? You just fall off a ledge. ^/s^
Come on, I think you know there's more to it than that. One also needs to make sure there's a body of water beneath, which involves observational skills.
They teach you that part in the advanced classes.
This story is regularly run in the UK. The easiest is cycling, with some Olympians managing to go from zero to world-class within four years.
Obviously, it's not that easy, but if your dream is to run your way through the Olympic village, you'll find a way.
That is just plain wrong. People that switch over to cycling and are successful within a few years are athletes from other disciplines. You can not build up the necessary cardio to be an olympic level cyclist in just a few years.
Well, Chris Hoy, one of GB's most decorated cyclists, switched to track cycling and was considered a medal hopeful within four years. That's why I mentioned cycling.
Besides...I'm not a olympic cyclist. It probably isn't true, since it was written by a journalist and not a cyclist, but that's what the UK rags always say.
Muff diving