Banter 2021 Off-Topic Chat Thread - PART II

[Shell]

So like the Hunger Games but for Olympics

No doubt countries like China will still dominate though as they'll have all their kids put through rigorous training camps from like 2 years of age...

Or like Jury Duty, but for the Olympics.

 

[Spazz Cat]

Sweet. Not only have we made the top5 in Olympic standing, we've also made the illegal to protest list.
Countries where it illegal to protest the government:
North Korea
China
Iran
Belarus
Australia

 

[Shell]

Has there ever been an athlete so awesome, they participate in more than one sport?

Like not just many swimming races- I mean swimmer and a water polo player

 

[winty]

So like the Hunger Games but for Olympics

No doubt countries like China will still dominate though as they'll have all their kids put through rigorous training camps from like 2 years of age...

US probably wouldn't dominate as much though.

 

[winty]

Has there ever been an athlete so awesome, they participate in more than one sport?

Like not just many swimming races- I mean swimmer and a water polo player

There have been a few Olympians who have competed in both the summer and winter Olympics. Don't think there have been any to contest more than one sport at the same Games though.

 

[cats_09]

Has there ever been an athlete so awesome, they participate in more than one sport?

Like not just many swimming races- I mean swimmer and a water polo player

Pretty sure the early athletes did

I have seen it more with our para-athletes though, but not within the one Olympics campaign
- Dylan Alcott played wheelchair basketball from 2004 to 2012 including 2 Olympic in which he won gold and silver
- then turned to tennis in 2014 and has been crazy good at that since

Pretty sure we've also had 1 or 2 para-athletes compete at both summer and winter Paralympic

 

[cats_09]

Though I guess technically the decathlon, heptathlon athletes and more so the modern pentathlon athletes compete in different sports within the one games

 

[Spazz Cat]

Has there ever been an athlete so awesome, they participate in more than one sport?

Like not just many swimming races- I mean swimmer and a water polo player

Fred De Leux mentioned one a couple of weeks ago I think?
Can't remember who it was or what for though

 

[Pigeon 45]

Has there ever been an athlete so awesome, they participate in more than one sport?

Like not just many swimming races- I mean swimmer and a water polo player

I think Nova Peris might have from memory? Hockey and athletics?

 

[winty]

Sweet. Not only have we made the top5 in Olympic standing, we've also made the illegal to protest list.
Countries where it illegal to protest the government:
North Korea
China
Iran
Belarus
Australia

I was going to question this, but remembered ScoMo saying that folks were lucky they weren't shot at after the women protests earlier this year, so it must be true.

 

[Shell]

I was going to question this, but remembered ScoMo saying that folks were lucky they weren't shot at after the women protests earlier this year, so it must be true.

God he took being a ****ing idiot to a whole new level that day

 

[winty]

Seems Sam Fricker has fricked up his chances of making the 10m platform semi-finals....

 

[Spazz Cat]

I was going to question this, but remembered ScoMo saying that folks were lucky they weren't shot at after the women protests earlier this year, so it must be true.

The was beginning of the end i think for ScoMo. Or maybe it was the AusPost thing, or maybe it was the Hillsong peedo thing. Or maybe the bushfires thing. I dunno.

 

[cats_09]

I think Nova Peris might have from memory? Hockey and athletics?

Jana Pittman going from athletics to bobsled

 

[winty]

The was beginning of the end i think for ScoMo. Or maybe it was the AusPost thing, or maybe it was the Hillsong peedo thing. Or maybe the bushfires thing. I dunno.

That's just the tip of the iceberg for the ScoMo clusterf**k of screw-ups since he has become PM too. Never known someone so incompetent and out of their depth as PM as this doofus is.

 

[Shell]

The was beginning of the end i think for ScoMo. Or maybe it was the AusPost thing, or maybe it was the Hillsong peedo thing. Or maybe the bushfires thing. I dunno.

Yeah id put my money on Hawaii

 

[Shell]

That's just the tip of the iceberg for the ScoMo clusterf**k of screw-ups since he has become PM too. Never known someone so incompetent and out of their depth as PM as this doofus is.

He's so embarrassing. Seems like an unprofessional bumbling bafoon. And i dont really give a shit about politics.

 

[Kram]

I think Nova Peris might have from memory? Hockey and athletics?

Thought of her but thought the Q meant at the same games.

 

[Kram]

He's so embarrassing. Seems like an unprofessional bumbling bafoon. And i dont really give a sh*t about politics.

Best was when he stood on that blokes new lawn lol.

 

[Shell]

Yeah i kinda meant same games. Like a mega freak.

 

[Down at K Park]

Sweet. Not only have we made the top5 in Olympic standing, we've also made the illegal to protest list.
Countries where it illegal to protest the government:
North Korea
China
Iran
Belarus
Australia

And they want people to dob in people who attended. So un-australian.

 

[Spearman]

Pretty sure the early athletes did

I have seen it more with our para-athletes though, but not within the one Olympics campaign
- Dylan Alcott played wheelchair basketball from 2004 to 2012 including 2 Olympic in which he won gold and silver
- then turned to tennis in 2014 and has been crazy good at that since

Pretty sure we've also had 1 or 2 para-athletes compete at both summer and winter Paralympic

Native American Jim Thorpe won the pentathlon and the decathlon in 1912, but was stripped because he played some semi-pro baseball before the Games. He also played major league baseball and early NFL after the games. An amazing athlete.

 

[FredLeDeux]

Jana Pittman going from athletics to bobsled

Reginald ‘Snowy’ Baker - rugby union, swimming, diving, boxing

Baker claimed a silver medal in the middleweight boxing division at the 1908 Olympics.

At the same Games, Baker also swam in the 4 x 200m freestyle relay (finishing fourth) and competed in the diving (knocked out in the first round).

 

[Spazz Cat]

Jana Pittman going from athletics to bobsled

I totally forgot about that. That's 2 separate types of Olympics.

 

[Spazz Cat]

I'm sure there was a chick who played hockey and something else in the Olympics back in the 30's or something