Should eating a pizza be an Olympic sport? Some people are making a case for it
Many think that the decision to reduce Olympics to only sports few people are good at is discriminatory.
Olympic sports are considered to be the pinnacle of human athletic achievement.
Over two weeks we celebrate the best sports has to offer, sprinkled with the power of narrative, patriotism and sometimes deadly viruses (See Zika in Brazil).
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| Jamaica's Usain Bolt probably has perfected the human body's ability to run fast. Photo: AP |
The thing is that not everyone is a top level Olympian. Some of us are gifted in other ways. In a world of incredible joblessness and procrastination, it's fair to question that who decides what exactly are Olympic Sports?
Like it's just a group of people decided which makes it pretty arbitrary.
People have differnet talents which should be rewarded with medals right? Like stuffing yourself with 20 burgers at one point?
Who is to say that requires less effort and perseverance than running a 10K marathon? (Well everyone will, but you get the point right?)
Some tweeters decided to play disrupters and started tweeting with #MyOlympicSportWouldBe resulting in some good old Twitter snark.
Here are some of the best ones:
#MyOlympicSportWouldBe Ultimate Frisbee pic.twitter.com/2aOlABSYjq
— Deadpool Movie (@deadpoolmovie) August 3, 2016
Wine drinking ?? #MyOlympicSportWouldBe
— Tyrion Lannister (@GoT_Tyrion) August 3, 2016
#MyOlympicSportWouldBe eating pizza.... duh! pic.twitter.com/5WeHNR35If
— Shay Mitchell (@shaymitch) August 3, 2016
#MyOlympicSportWouldBe drunk texting
— Giselle Evans (@GiselleEvns) August 3, 2016
#MyOlympicSportWouldBe Makeup Contouring pic.twitter.com/HWBKhzNcKE
— Rhett & Link (@rhettandlink) August 3, 2016
#MyOlympicSportWouldBe whatever this is pic.twitter.com/bC8RSN8t5Z
— Aritro (@aritronaut) August 3, 2016
#MyOlympicSportWouldBe eating tacos
— Shit Mexicans Do (@SOMEXlCAN) August 4, 2016
#MyOlympicSportWouldBe Extreme Grocery Carrying pic.twitter.com/bAZ1KDcu9v
— ??Orange Privilege?? (@Rushs_Dad) August 3, 2016
Long jumping to conclusions #MyOlympicSportWouldBe
— Doc (@DocDarnell) August 3, 2016
#MyOlympicSportWouldBe eating tacos
— Shit Mexicans Do (@SOMEXlCAN) August 4, 2016
#MyOlympicSportWouldBe emails deleting pic.twitter.com/OLNvFXYu61
— John Davis (@TheFoundingSon) August 3, 2016
#MyOlympicSportWouldBe -tweeting. Duh.
— Alyssa Milano (@Alyssa_Milano) August 3, 2016
#MyOlympicSportWouldBe collecting cats to die alone with. pic.twitter.com/2GHRKht4hz
— Tessa Kennedy (@T_Kennedy9) August 3, 2016