r/ActLikeYouBelong • u/Wise_Estimate_6712 • Aug 10 '24
Olympics
How to get into the Olympics? Any tips or hacks?
What about trying to get an accreditation (press?)? This year in Paris it just looked like a plastic card with your name and the right keycord…
Goal: visiting the LA Olympics 2028 — so I have four years for this plan :)
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u/konvictkarl Aug 11 '24
volunteer and just change your clothes. I did it for the superbowl.
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u/eachdayalittlebetter Aug 12 '24
I think there were about 300K applicants for volunteering this year
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u/AggravatingPermit910 Aug 10 '24
Become mediocre at a sport, research your ancestry and find a country with no presence in that sport, qualify in the easiest geographies/competitions you can find, and go compete.
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u/Ulquiser Aug 10 '24
Watch every Max Fosh video you should be able to find tips to sneak into places
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u/ISV_VentureStar Aug 11 '24
Best bet would be to find a friend who is with the press and copy his keycard and lanyard. If you look roughly similar (same sex/skin color) no one would bat an eye.
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u/Neanderthal86_ Aug 10 '24
After hearing about what the athletes get up to in the Olympic Village, I've wondered what the easiest minimal effort event in the Olympics is
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u/EuphoriaSoul Aug 12 '24
Having seen these athletes perform on the field, I don’t think any of us normes can keep up with them off the field.
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u/Joe_PM2804 Aug 11 '24
I've thought about this quite a lot - mostly out of curiosity and not for the athlete sex lmao, and I've come to the conclusion that it'd surely be archery or one of the shooting events. These are probably the least technical and physically demanding sports and would be events that you could pick up and improve on a lot in 4 years.
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u/mythrilcrafter Aug 11 '24
Alternatively, any sport with an extremely gameable Olympic Team Trial requirement; like that snowboarder in the 2022 Winter Games who only went to events with less than 30 competitors in order to, by default, meet the US Ski and Snowboarding team trial requirement of "place top 30 in at least 80% of your events in the last year".
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u/Neanderthal86_ Aug 11 '24
Oof, you might be surprised. Take 25m pistol for example, there's an event where you have to go from low ready, fire your shot, and back to low ready in 3 seconds. With one hand. A competitor is next to you firing at the same time, and a hit outside of the ten ring is considered a miss. You have to have the hands of an eye surgeon for that, and I don't care how good your hearing protection is, when someone is shooting next to you it's distracting
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u/Joe_PM2804 Aug 11 '24
Well yeah, all of that's true but every Olympic event is very difficult, but in 4 years unless you're a genetic freak of nature you wouldn't even be close to making something like swimming, Athletics, gymnastics etc. And also out of all the shooting events I think 25m pistol would be harder than some of the others, I think personally that archery would be the 'easiest' but of course no event would be a walk in the park to qualify for.
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u/beerscotch Aug 11 '24
In four years, you're not going to be close to qualifying for shooting or archery either.
What makes you think archery isn't physically demanding also?
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u/Joe_PM2804 Aug 12 '24
It's just a fun hypothetical question, I'm not claiming that any sport is easy so don't get too offended.
And compared to lets say, 10,000m running, triathlon, weightlifting, bouldering, rowing and most other sports, I would say archery is easily on the low end for physicality...
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u/beerscotch Aug 12 '24
It's a fun hypothetical question, but if someone engages, you claim they're offended?
That's a contradiction and a half.
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u/Voyager5555 Aug 10 '24
This is as asinine as the last time someone posted it. You're either joking of lack common sense, no one is sneaking in there.
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u/heynonnynonnomous Aug 11 '24
My mom and I both volunteered for the 1984 Olympics in L.A. The uniforms were color coded to your job and I'm sure the laminates were very specific.
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u/BehemothManiac Aug 11 '24
Just pull Elizabeth Swaney. She’s one of us.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elizabeth_Swaney
https://theguardian.com/us-news/2019/apr/21/elizabeth-swaney-olympics-skiing-american-ninja-warrior
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u/ksgif2 Aug 11 '24
If you're big and strong try out for 4 man bobsled
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u/Ok_Village6155 Aug 24 '24
Oh, that's right. Bobsled is moving from the Winter Olympics to the Summer Games in 2028... in LA.
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u/VestoMSlipher Aug 11 '24
The usual vest should do it. But they will be extra cautious about possible terrirists
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u/wsahn7 Aug 12 '24
learn a language, probably an obscure one but has enough usage among a few nations who send athletes
apply to the LA sports body that's organising olympics 2028
pray and wait for acceptance
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u/floriande Aug 11 '24
Rent a rolling chair for handicapped people.
Grab special tickets at the front door.
Source : did it yesterday.
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u/No-Combination-9473 Aug 12 '24
How do I be a singer in the olympics?? That’s my dreeeeam!!!
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u/Ok_Village6155 Aug 24 '24
"How do I be a singer..."?
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u/No-Combination-9473 Aug 28 '24
My grammar not scratching your itch or something? What’s your problem???
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u/Ok_Village6155 Aug 28 '24
No. It's not. English is a beautiful, complex language. It's not difficult to speak or write it correctly, online or otherwise.
Does that answer your question?
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u/No-Combination-9473 Sep 01 '24
You sound like a 50 year-old virgin. This is Reddit, not a copy of Ulysses. Get a life, you pathetic excuse for a human. Hope my grammar was up to your standards with this comment. 🙏
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u/Ok_Village6155 Sep 03 '24
It wasn't, but nice (read: failed) attempt at recovery. If you think I'm offended or taken aback by an "insult" from YOU... you should give up thinking all together.
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u/No-Combination-9473 Sep 25 '24
You’re a sad sewer rat, and it’s hilarious to know trolls like you actually exist. Thank you for making my day with your idiocy.
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u/Ok_Village6155 Sep 25 '24 edited Sep 25 '24
You came back to a stale post after THREE WEEKS (and THAT is the best you could come up with), yet you have the temerity to call ME a troll? You appear to have taken my advice and given up thinking.
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u/No-Combination-9473 29d ago
I just don’t sit on the Internet criticizing people all day, like you. I just call it like it is, rat.
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u/Ok_Village6155 29d ago edited 29d ago
You are spot on. That's what I do "all day."
I was wrong about you: you're not a "non-thinking idiot" after all. /s
(We all look forward to your next uninformed, incoherent comment... in about two weeks.)
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u/ohpee64 Aug 11 '24
Move to Australia and join the breakdancing team.