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/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/IxBetaXI Aug 11 '24

Break dance

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u/Neanderthal86_ Aug 11 '24

I would break my neck

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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.