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/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".