Here is Shelly-Anne Fraser-Pryce (multiple Olympic medals as well as world championships in sprinting) running in a school parent’s race vs. other moms.
From the ground camera view she’s like Sonic the Hedgehog, jeez
Not the Olympics, but for the difference between regular people and top tier athletes. If you’re not familiar with “the Scallenge”:
However, one player who developed a reputation for being among the worst in the NBA was Brian Scalabrine. He was criticised for being a bench warmer and averaged just 3.1 points per game during his time in the league.
And in 2013, after continued criticism for his bench role, he famously responded: “I’m closer to LeBron than you are to me.”
He plays (and destroys) non-pro players. It’s not like regular dudes off the street. He’s playing people who were trying out for the NBA, and they were the top of their own local league.
NBA’s ‘Worst Ever Player’ Took On Three Amateurs in Never-Before-Seen Challenge
Yep, can confirm. I suck at sports and know it, rather than being a couch warming critic. My sister runs circles around me in any sport and she’s recreational level. A pro player would destroy me in minutes
There are players who play in the ECHL (The lowest level of pro hockey in North America) who will play rec leagues in the offseason, and they might as well be Crosby or McDavid when they’re playing with randoms.
There’s videos of John Scott, an enforcer who basically just fought people and scored 5 goals in his 10 year NHL career. I know people who played beer league with him and he was doing laps around everyone. Just stick handling through three defenders and showing off.
How to dad vs Kiwi Olympians and sports stars.
That’s incredible, exactly what OP wanted
This sounds like an entire show worth of content
It is pretty funny!
Already happened before:
I just don’t understand how this happened. Did no one else on the Australian team see her dance and be like ???
I saw the Australian guy’s dance and he at the very least knew what he was doing.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rachael_Gunn#Early_career
She is coached by her husband, Samuel Free,[10] and says that she trains three to four hours a day.[11] Gunn ranked second in the Australian Open B-girl Ranking in 2022[12] and topped the ranking in 2023 in Australia[13] as well as winning or coming in the top three at many Australian breaking events in the previous five to ten years.[14] She represented Australia at the World Breaking Championships in Paris (2021), Seoul (2022), and Leuven (2023).[7][3] In 2023, she won the Oceania Breaking Championships, defeating Molly Chapman (“Holy Molly”) in the final,[15] and secured her spot in the 2024 Summer Olympics according to the qualifying rules.[3][4]
I just don’t understand the resume compared to what she presented in the olympics. It just seems like she would have a pretty good understanding of the sport, but her performance showed a lack of a lot of things.
Am I misremembering or did they cancel that category after her performance? I have a vague memory that breakdancing had only recently been accepted as a discipline and then she did that and they decided to remove the discipline again…? Might have been a fever hallucination after I saw her performance. Wishful thinking, probably.
https://people.com/why-breaking-is-not-in-the-2028-olympics-8695145
It was announced to not be included in the 2028 olympics back in 2022. It’s up to the hosts to decide which extra competitions are included, Flag Football and Squash will be added new, while Baseball, Softball, Lacrosse, and Cricket are being added after being olympic sports previously but not in 2024.
Ah, thanks for the clarification. So it was only half a hallucination I had there, lol.
It was only a demonstration sport, like a guest performance as it were.
Why’s she pretending to be a t-rex?
That’s supposed to be a kangaroo, but she failed so badly
Oh, I thought that was some kind of kung-fu.
Allow me to introduce you to 80s legend Eddie the Eagle.
The movie was good too. Hugh jackman gets to really flex his chops in it.
Oh damn, I forgot I watched this movie. It was good
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Check out average rob on YouTube. He’s a Belgian dude who has done a ton of different sports as a “average” guy. He started the whole thing already pretty muscular and has gotten way more in shape over the course of what he’s done. But he also has his brother do everything with him and he is very not in shape. They’re some funny guys as well, great videos IMO.
They do skeleton here, the most insane form of going down a tube of ice(at the place where that one guy doing skeleton died a while back IIRC): https://youtu.be/WjkRHgY0yZg
He’s great! I love the turbo cross.
For the 2018 olympics they did a series where they had athletes swap sports. Some of them had a closer connection (like figure skating and ice hockey) and others just seemed more random.
Then another channel later did some more in-depth vids on the same concept, with even some of the same overlap, like hockey and figure skating
And that person should be Jack Black.
i wouldn’t have touched the curling stone
The drone footage has really helped with that, and I saw at least one run from a GoPro perspective that also helped with perspective.
the side cam on moguls is great at showing true speed and just how much work they’re doing with their legs
Be the change you want to see in the world.
Just go for a run and see how you compare.a regular person but also like a really enthusiastic hobbyist
They had Collin Jost do the bobsled with a skilled athlete doing the driving. That was pretty damn entertaining.
Wasn’t there a comedian who said that bobsled was the only sport where the person could be an unwilling participant?
Yeah, let an untrained person do that long jump thing where they spit in the face of gravity.
I feel like they did that as a TV show with celebrities, similar idea to that Celebrity Splash high dive show
It was called The Jump but it got cancelled after to 4 seasons due to sky high insurance costs due to several injuries and overall poor ratings.
But I want to see Geoff from accounting, who has never done a vaguely extreme thing in his life, get strapped to a pair of skis and pushed down the ramp.
This feels suspiciously specific. Is Geoff a willing participant in your scenario? How much do you care about how Geoff fares in the landing? Has Geoff been denying your expense reports?
In my ideal world Geoff was chosen by lottery, he does not want to do it, but he surprises everyone by not absolutely eating shit and finishes cleanly.
I forget which comedian it was, might have been Jerry Seinfeld, but he was talking about the luge, how it’s almost not a sport. “He’s pointing his toes, what an athlete.” Then he got into the involuntary luge. “No! Let me go! I don’t wanna do the luge.”
There was also Eddie The Eagle, the not quite a ski jumper who was the first to represent Britain in the sport in Calgary in '88.
I liked his bit about the “fastest man in the world”, he’d move his head back a centimeter “second fastest”, and then half a centimeter back again “complete nobody”
