Meh, it’s entertainment value would be lost after after the first couple go around. Would have to switch it up to Japenese Ninja Warrior style competitions to keep it interesting.
Would be better to place random people in government as true representation of the people. I truly believe anyone who wants to run for office is not fit for office.
So, Salt Lake is in the running for the Winter Olympics in 2034. But they're all worried about the winter inversion (which we had in 2002 when we last hosted the Olympics, it just happened to clear up the day before the opening ceremonies). Our particulate pollution is so bad right now, the air is unhealthy even for people in good shape. The inversion traps all the smog and pollution in our valley for days at a time.
Much of the events will be at ski resorts above the inversion, but the athletes in the valley will have to bring inhalers and/or particle masks with them. Pollution will be even more greatly amplified by the polluting port that salt lake is opening soon.
39 Year old Electrician Dale walks across it without any issue. You see, it’s just like one of his jobs that someone else engineered from a desk without ever seeing that the job is impossible. But, Dale is the man who pulls it off by crossing narrow trusses carrying tools and the new equipment, while his assistant watches from below rethinking his career knowing Dale’s the man he’s going to have to replace in the next 10-15 years.
Safer than a 90 year old… Maybe there’d be a basic physical the person has to pass? Can’t have it be too stringent though as that’d defeat the purpose of getting the “average” person
Now, how do we prevent the selection from being rigged?
Let all the other countries openly select “athletes” from your country’s official census data. It’ll turn into a complete shit show, but it will be entertaining. Dale’s entire company is going to get tapped for the 100m dash, but so will a bunch of farmers from rural China.
But you also have to remove the incentive to rig it in the first place. The current Olympics are used as a tool to promote your country as having literally stronger people than others. So that’s gotta stop. This means no prizes, events that celebrate the worst along with the best, and last place gets as much attention as first.
39 year old Dale the electrician and father of two young girls would be VERY CONFIDENT. What he wouldn’t be is skilled.
He’d run at full speed (for Dale) onto the mat, fall on his ass and then start making snow angels.
He’d run to the bars, grab on, go halfway up, fall on his ass and then start making snow angels.
Balance beam? He’d run up at full speed, realize he has a bad back, run to the side of it, tap, tap, tap, fall to the ground and, you guessed it, snow angels.
And of course after each event he’d stand up (well, someone will probably have to give him a hand), but he’ll stand up, do little finish, hands straight up as the crowd applauds. Whoops did I saw hands straight up? I meant finger guns. Pew pew Dale. Pew pew.
While they’re standing around waiting for their turn or actually while they’re doing the sweeping thing? Tennis players eat during matches. Jannik sinner used to eat carrots (hence the carota boys) coco guaff eats fruit salad, but most eat bananas at change of ends.
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