Free Range by Bill Whitehead for April 27, 2022

An overlooked one: “Mathletes”.

Very good!!

Not bad

Isn’t the lower left the same as full contact golf from the Caddy Shack II?

Golf is boring to watch, but I’d watch Tackle Golf.

How about a little bit of tackle baseball?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5i7DWj7yebM

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5uHRuQSzrTc

Sumo Rowing: They’re gonna need a bigger boat.

Rhythmic Boxing: Inspired by Muhammad Ali:

“Dance like a butterfly. Sting like a bee.”

I’d actually watch full contact golf.

Cross-country skiing combined with rifle shooting. Wait a sec… that’s an actual sport!!

Olympic Hide and Seek…

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2sqTmhB0BNQ

Chess-Boxing is a thing!https://www.google.com/search?q=chess+boxing&oq=chess+boxing&aqs=chrome..69i57j0i512l8j46i512.20364j0j15&sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8

Playing video games…wait, someone told me that was going to be an Olympic even in 2024.

LOL!

I’d actually watch the Olympics if those were real sports. Esp, as many have mentioned, Full Contact Golf.

Foosball with Caitlyn Jenner.

If you could combine Golf with, say, the Javelin Catch . . .

Croquet was once an Olympic sport. One of several that were dumped.

https://www.topendsports.com/events/discontinued/list.htm

How about javelin soccer? (You do NOT want to be the goalie!)

200m obstacle race – swimming

This unusual swimming event held at the 1900 Paris Olympics seems very complex but a lot of fun. The 200m Obstacle Race was a combination of a swimming event and an obstacle race – the competitors had to climb over a pole, then scramble over a row of boats, and then swim under another row of boats.

All this was done in the River Seine, so the competitors also had to contend with the current. This event was only ever held once, in 1900, but it would be a crowd favorite if it was ever to return.

https://www.topendsports.com/events/discontinued/obstacle.htm

very creative!! And funny!! The best was tackle golf. Not sure how that would work. But group pole vault? Yes, that works.

I’d watch the hell out of all of these.

water polo air pistol might interest a few viewers…

How about full contact Bowling, we gotta get Bowling in the Olympics somehow.

When I was but a lad, we used to play punch basketball. Good times.

I always thought golf could use defense.

Javelin catching. Radical anything hammering