Olympic event

[Justincider]

Should throwing a flat round object be an Olympic event, Discus

[bibblebub]

you're javelin a larf

try putting a shot and you'll find that the club bends

[boxtops]

If it wasn't flat, the event would be a Fosbury flop.

[bibblebub]

that bloke with a pole, he's for the high jump, a very high jump

[boxtops]

..and that one tooks happy, a hop, a skip and a jump...

[bibblebub]

Do people with unrequited love go to the Olympics just to get on the tv ? They always show someone carrying a torch during the opening ceremony.

[joggerjayne]

Well, I think that event could have some mileage.

I'm sure it will run and run.

[boxtops]

^Groan bibble, that's a good 'un!
I think we're in for a marathon on this one....

[mollykins]

i don't see the point in the high jump if you have help from a pole, it should be like we do at school, through your own power and skill.

[joggerjayne]

I'm sure some Olympians take part for the love of sport.

But other do it for publicity ... they like to see their names in sprint.

[mollykins]

also with the traditional high jump, at my school, its not always the tallest person that wins.


Anyway do they do high jump without a pole to help aswell?

[bibblebub]

i tried pole vaulting once but he was only here to do the plumbing so wasn't happy

[joggerjayne]

LOL

[boxtops]

Yes they do Mollykins, but they use the Fosbury Flop method these days (throwing themselves over backwards) unlike the Scissors movement we used when I was at school. 5'3" was my highest scissors jump in those days!

[boxtops]

If the PLEBS get in, I vote Sitting as a new event for 2012, I could qualify.

[bibblebub]

the only high jump worth doing is for getting into the mile high club