This would be great....And here we have Norman, representing the U.K. in the Ski Halfpipe event. Norman is 64, married to Sheila, and enjoys gardening. He has never left the U.K. let alone ski, but he's feeling chipper about the race.

Hunger Games : Olympic Trials

And that, ladies and gents, is how the Hunger Games were invented.

THIS. Or..Athletes at the Olympics are allowed to take whatever they want. I mean imagine Usain Bolt running on Coke, Speed and XTC... i bet he becomes ultrasonic and then vanishes inside a wormhole..haha.

But that would be kinda funny, like people stumbling around and breaking necks. Just hilarious. Depending on how, erm, broad your sense of humor is😁

Isn't this Hunger Games?

The hunger games for adults

Nah if you can pick then noone would pick pole vault

Remember Eric Moussambani Malonga from Equatorial Guinea? He was nicknamed Eric the Eel by the media. He had never seen an Olympic-sized swimming pool before, and swam his heat of the 100m freestyle in the unprecedentedly slow time of just under two minutes - the slowest time in Olympic history by far. Moussambani even had trouble finishing the race, but he won his heat after both his competitors were disqualified due to false starts. No one remembers the disqualified swimmers, but Eric got headlines around the world.

I want them to go through some reality TV level training first, though. Not enough to succeed, but to make them think they will.

uh you guys don’t start the hunger games pls… or the Olympic Games of Death

Don't. Having flashbacks to school now, it's late at night and there's no ice cream in the house.

If I got archery: yippee a sport I'm good at! Skiing, snowboarding or swimming: nvm I'm dead.

Hmm...why does the Colosseum pop into my head?

2022 hunger games

I think give them a few weeks of training to prevent drowning....

Hunger Games vibes anyone?

This is so funny!!!

Isn't that almost the Hunger Games though

The Hunger Games, but mostly everyone makes it out alive

*coughs in hunger games*

Yes.

Me, a swimmer: well half the strokes there are make it look like you’re drowning anyways so even if they got someone who could swim it would still be funny af

it would be similar to hunger games, selecting random people to die doing stuff they aren’t good at just for the entertainment of the government

Having traumatic flashbacks of Field Day in elementary school.

That is so Hunger games

New game show (or so I think) idea: So, You Think You're Athlete Material.

I would fully support this, as long as my husband does the gymnastics dance thing.

I feel a movie in the making ( would watch)

This is definitely the start of hunger games isn't it lol

Hunger games anyone?

I feel like this is the origin of Hunger Games.

The Hunger Games for sports

i would watch and participate

What I wanna see is, after competing in their own sports, Olympians have to compete in one of the other sports, one they've never done.

Same, I also can't ride a bike so I'm f****d for the triathlon 😆

This kinda reminds me of the Hunger Games

Hunger games vibes xD

Oh God, if that WAS the case, I'd DEFINITELY start watching the Olympics lol! Can we just please do this? We can even do it as a separate thing and keep the "real" Olympics, if we really have to lol! It would be watched by millions worldwide lol! Someone should suggest this idea to a reality TV producer lol!

I feel like the deaths would be the point of the randomness

Any conscientious objectors or draft dodgers to Canada allowed? Can imagine a bunch of folks with six months training trying to.master the pole vault or ski jump. "He's over Poughkeepsie now. What a miraculous moment"

Hunger games

"I volunteer as tribute!"