Check out average rob on YouTube. He's a Belgian dude who has done a ton of different sports as a "average" guy. He started the whole thing already pretty muscular and has gotten way more in shape over the course of what he's done. But he also has his brother do everything with him and he is very not in shape. They're some funny guys as well, great videos IMO.
They do skeleton here, the most insane form of going down a tube of ice(at the place where that one guy doing skeleton died a while back IIRC): https://youtu.be/WjkRHgY0yZg
Not the Olympics, but for the difference between regular people and top tier athletes. If you're not familiar with "the Scallenge":
However, one player who developed a reputation for being among the worst in the NBA was Brian Scalabrine. He was criticised for being a bench warmer and averaged just 3.1 points per game during his time in the league.
And in 2013, after continued criticism for his bench role, he famously responded: "I'm closer to LeBron than you are to me."
He plays (and destroys) non-pro players. It's not like regular dudes off the street. He's playing people who were trying out for the NBA, and they were the top of their own local league.
NBA’s ‘Worst Ever Player’ Took On Three Amateurs in Never-Before-Seen Challenge
Yep, can confirm. I suck at sports and know it, rather than being a couch warming critic. My sister runs circles around me in any sport and she's recreational level. A pro player would destroy me in minutes
They had Collin Jost do the bobsled with a skilled athlete doing the driving. That was pretty damn entertaining.
Wasn’t there a comedian who said that bobsled was the only sport where the person could be an unwilling participant?
Here is Shelly-Anne Fraser-Pryce (multiple Olympic medals as well as world championships in sprinting) running in a school parent's race vs. other moms.
From the ground camera view she's like Sonic the Hedgehog, jeez
Already happened before:
I just don't understand how this happened. Did no one else on the Australian team see her dance and be like ???
I saw the Australian guy's dance and he at the very least knew what he was doing.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rachael_Gunn#Early_career
She is coached by her husband, Samuel Free,[10] and says that she trains three to four hours a day.[11] Gunn ranked second in the Australian Open B-girl Ranking in 2022[12] and topped the ranking in 2023 in Australia[13] as well as winning or coming in the top three at many Australian breaking events in the previous five to ten years.[14] She represented Australia at the World Breaking Championships in Paris (2021), Seoul (2022), and Leuven (2023).[7][3] In 2023, she won the Oceania Breaking Championships, defeating Molly Chapman ("Holy Molly") in the final,[15] and secured her spot in the 2024 Summer Olympics according to the qualifying rules.[3][4]
I just don't understand the resume compared to what she presented in the olympics. It just seems like she would have a pretty good understanding of the sport, but her performance showed a lack of a lot of things.
Am I misremembering or did they cancel that category after her performance? I have a vague memory that breakdancing had only recently been accepted as a discipline and then she did that and they decided to remove the discipline again..? Might have been a fever hallucination after I saw her performance. Wishful thinking, probably.
https://people.com/why-breaking-is-not-in-the-2028-olympics-8695145
It was announced to not be included in the 2028 olympics back in 2022. It’s up to the hosts to decide which extra competitions are included, Flag Football and Squash will be added new, while Baseball, Softball, Lacrosse, and Cricket are being added after being olympic sports previously but not in 2024.
It may work ok for curling, figure skating, or cross country, but you get into anything involving a slope and it starts to get really dangerous if you don’t know what you’re doing. Think moguls, big air, or ski jumping.
This would be much safer for the summer Olympics.
For the 2018 olympics they did a series where they had athletes swap sports. Some of them had a closer connection (like figure skating and ice hockey) and others just seemed more random.
Then another channel later did some more in-depth vids on the same concept, with even some of the same overlap, like hockey and figure skating
a regular person but also like a really enthusiastic hobbyist
Yeah, let an untrained person do that long jump thing where they spit in the face of gravity.
I feel like they did that as a TV show with celebrities, similar idea to that Celebrity Splash high dive show
But I want to see Geoff from accounting, who has never done a vaguely extreme thing in his life, get strapped to a pair of skis and pushed down the ramp.
This feels suspiciously specific. Is Geoff a willing participant in your scenario? How much do you care about how Geoff fares in the landing? Has Geoff been denying your expense reports?
In my ideal world Geoff was chosen by lottery, he does not want to do it, but he surprises everyone by not absolutely eating shit and finishes cleanly.
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