Posted on 06/23/2016 7:52:13 PM PDT by super7man
I was wondering what is the quickest Olympic event that from the start of the timing or judging to the finish that you can actually win a metal for.
I was thinking long jump. You are judged from the time you hit the plank to hitting the sand. 0.2 seconds?
Or maybe highjump, where you are judged only for the time you are over the bar. 0.1 seconds?
Long jump, high jump, a really bad javelin thrower.
You really have time for this?
You’d need to make timed events and skill events separate categories.
What do you think would be the longest event?
It certainly isn’t Hide and Seek
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ycb9_Y_gJ-g
Yup. I just can’t think of Schrödinger equations all the time.
This age thing never did happen to men's gymnastics because men simply CAN'T compete until they actually ARE at least eighteen years old. No fourteen or fifteen year old boy CAN do the "iron cross."
You won't be disproving me now, with examples of boys performing the "iron cross," will you? :o)
OK so be it. Timed and skilled are separate. Good idea.
Shortest timed: 100m Dash? 9.6 sec?
Longest Event: Basketball, takes weeks.
the event probably involves all the condoms they give away.
In the longest or shortest category?
Target shooting.
It beats thinking about Billary as your next p_resident.
From the time they start shooting to the time they finish seems like a long time.
They could speed the target shooting event considerably if they were to combine it with the dove release. :=)
Gymnastics Vault?
soccer - it’s not just one match, but many matches.
with overtime it’s potentially indefinitely long.
(as are volleyball, table tennis, etc.)
For that matter 100 m dash is what - maybe 8 heats? (10 s. to run one heat)
About two years ago I found a human skeleton on my property. I reported it to the sheriff’s office who in turn notified the State Police who took over the investigation. Several months later the SP informed me of the results of their investigation. Seems the bones belonged to one Cletus J. Tenney, the 1968 West Virginia Hide-And-Seek State Champion, who disappeared during the 1969 competition.
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