Welcome back to another episode of Dumping Them Out.
I was at a bar for a friend’s going away party.
It was an “all you might drink for 40 dollars” situation, so I was well lubricated.
Lubricated enough to think this was a clever trivia question to pose to Twitter.
Nobody was even close to answering correctly.
But at the same time, I still think it’s gettable.
The prize is now up to $32.
The number of answers trickling in have slowed down.
Which means that soon everyone will forget about this tweet.
But I know that there’s someone out there with the right answer.
Really wish I hadn’t tweeted that.
But I’ve tried to watch handball multiple times this Olympics.
It’s not entertaining.
It’s a boring sport.
There’s no fun plays, or cool moves, or impressive shows of athleticism & skill.
It’s a sport that was invented by a 10-year old in his backyard.
“What if we just have 2 goals and throw the ball in the net?!”
It’s a bad sport.
Triple Jump
In most cases, track & field events make sense.
They’re all very natural seeming competitions that measure an athlete’s basic athletic abilities.
Who can initiate the fastest over various distances… Who can jump the longest with a running start.
Who can jump the highest with a running start.
Who can throw a heavy object the farthest (shotput, discus).
Then there’s a few weird ones.
I don’t know where pole vaulting came from.
I don’t know why the steeplechase makes athletes run through a kiddie pool mid-race.
But I’ll let those events slide.
Those events come nowhere close to being as nonsensical as the triple jump.
“, should be worthy of it’s own competition.
It’s the most awkward looking event out of all the events.
It makes zero sense.
Why not a double jump?
Why not a standing jump?
Why not a vertical leap?
Vertical leap would be a way better competition than the triple jump.
The triple jump is ridiculous.
I watched the finals today and the whole time I just thought about how stupid it was.
3-on-3 Basketball
Honestly I think 3x3 basketball might take the cake for dumbest event.
And not just because Team USA’s 3-on-3 teams are an embarrassment.
It’s a bad product.
It’s not entertaining.
It’s barely even a sport.
to get to do that, they have to play in a certain amount of FIBA 3-on-3 sanctioned events.
If they want to start actually letting the best basketball players in, then I might change my tune.
But the way it is now, it’s all just a weird side show that proves nothing.
Breakdancing)
Paris 2024 is the first Olympics that features “breaking” as an event.
Because that’s what it is.
But the official name of the event is “breaking”.
Did anybody ask for this?
How is it even judged?
Breakdancing shouldn’t be a competition at all.
Race Walking
The words “walk” and “race” should never go together.
Walking is leisurely activity.
It’s something you do with you dog.
If you want to go faster, just run.
I don’t want to know how many meters tall Bam Adebayo is.
