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The Triple Lindy!
 
So, what sport do u guys think would be easiest for the “average person”to fake their way through and look respectable to the casual fan? I’m gonna say baseball. Pray the ball doesn’t get hit to you and if doesn’t your halfway home. If you can make your swing look beautiful it doesn’t matter if you go 0 for 4. Hell… lots of people go 0 fer….
Bowling. I fake I know what I'm doing for 28 weeks every year.
 
Horse dressage or horse dancing. What a joke. Ribbon twirling
Dressage has been in the Olympics since 1912. It's no joke. It takes years of training and incredible talent to do what they do. Good luck faking dressage. A horse will own you in seconds. It's also one of the higher rated events in the Olympics. Equestrian is always in the top 10.
 
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Dressage has been in the Olympics since 1912. It's no joke. It takes years of training and incredible talent to do what they do. Good luck faking dressage. A horse will own you in seconds. It's also one of the higher rated events in the Olympics. Equestrian is always in the top 10.
Maybe you know: how the heck do they teach a horse to do that stuff?
 
Maybe you know: how the heck do they teach a horse to do that stuff?
It starts with ground training. Teaching flexion. It's about teaching a horse to respond to pressure, and handle massive cheering crowds without losing their mind. All power and movement comes from the hind end. Legs and seat of the rider dictate each individual leg of the horse. Dressage is based upon military movements from the battlefield, centuries ago in Greece, then Europe.
 
Dressage has been in the Olympics since 1912. It's no joke. It takes years of training and incredible talent to do what they do. Good luck faking dressage. A horse will own you in seconds. It's also one of the higher rated events in the Olympics. Equestrian is always in the top 10.
yeah, these ain't nose-to-butt horses that you take on a trail ride in a national park. they're 1000 pound animals that don't speak a lick of English.

As to my selection of sport with least grade between average joe and olympian, I'm gonna go with curling. But, we could have a new challenger in the not too distant future....


Hopefully i will be dead before this ever happens. It was bad enough going to the Greenbrier early in the year and finding that they were hosting the American Cornhole Association MidAtlantic Regionals. COVID obviously proved that in the hotel industry, cash flow is king.
 
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They were discussing this on Philly sports radio the other day. The consensus was “speed walking”. Until someone pointed out the world record for a mile is about 4:30.
We didn't say you have to win.

How about bobsledding? In think the Jamacans did it without ever seeing snow before they competed.

 
yeah, these ain't nose-to-butt horses that you take on a trail ride in a national park. they're 1000 pound animals that don't speak a lick of English.

As to my selection of sport with least grade between average joe and olympian, I'm gonna go with curling. But, we could have a new challenger in the not too distant future....


Hopefully i will be dead before this ever happens. It was bad enough going to the Greenbrier early in the year and finding that they were hosting the American Cornhole Association MidAtlantic Regionals. COVID obviously proved that in the hotel industry, cash flow is king.
Hopefully the Cornhole tour will be stopping in the HV next April. Only appropriate with all the training that takes place in the parking lots n the fall!
 
USA Olympic wrestling medals by year:
2021 — 9 (NLWC 5)
2016 — 3
2012 — 5
2008 — 3
2004 — 6
2000 — 7
1996 — 8
1992 — 8
1988 — 6
1984 — 13

Might be helpful to include total number of events/weights. There used to be 20, now there are 18.
 
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Might be helpful to include total number of events/weights. There used to be 20, now there are 18.
1984 also comes with a huge asterisk since Russia boycotted that year. All things considered, I think it's easy to say that this year was the best performance of any US Olympic wrestling team.
 
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1984 also comes with a huge asterisk since Russia boycotted that year. All things considered, I think it's easy to say that this year was the best performance of any US Olympic wrestling team.
Also, since 1996 the Soviet talent has been spread around.
 
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