you WILL read this and you will LOVE IT
yes, this is another entry about the olympics. no, i am not going to talk about anything else for the next two months. (ONE MONTH!!!) consider yourselves lucky.
this is very interesting and it's something i've been wondering about for a while. obviously, the human body has limitations. nobody is ever going to run a mile in two minutes. some events might have already reached the threshold. so what happens to individual sports (on the elite level) then? they're going to be significantly less interesting. with the olympics in particular, the US absolutely dominates the two main sports (track and swimming), so it's mostly a matter of seeing people break records. i don't know how interesting it will be once people start reaching that limitation point. i mean obviously there will be small increases because of new techniques or technology - i know with swimming everybody's talking about these brand new speedos that are shaving up to a second off of people's times - but still. i'm not saying these sports will go away, because 99.99999% of people that will ever live will never come close to reaching that cutoff point, but people WILL reach that point. of course breaking records is going to get even more exciting when it starts happening less often. so i don't know. individual sports will always exist on the "normal people" level, but for the elite, i'm not sure how much i care about watching a race that's decided by a billionth of a second. that first article predicts that 2027 is when we'll start seeing a significant decline in record breaking. isn't it weird that we live during a time where humans are doing this, reaching the limit? most people that will ever have lived won't get to experience that. weiirrrrdd.
(EDIT - apparently they were already talking about this 100 years ago. hah. IF THEY ONLY KNEW.)
ANYWAY here are the people that i am so super excited about:
- brian clay (I LOOOOVE HIM. and the decathlon IS the olympics. everything else is filler programming. ITS JUST A FACT. and he will get gold this time <3)
- tyson gay (though i am still depressed about the 200m please don't bring it up)
- shannon rowbury (HOLY SHIT)
- bernard laget (also HOLY SHIT)
- actually the whole 1500m crowd in general - that race is dear to me
- dara torres (who isn't?)
- lola jones (i think i heard she's from LSU but i won't hold that against her. i have so much respect for hurdlers. i could never in a million a years.)
- marshavet hooker (tripping & falling into third place FTMFW)
- the softball team (not that i am remotely interested in softball as a sport but 1) it is the last time it will be in the olympics (the US dominates too much? nobody else in the world cares?) 2) ...the US dominates and 3) you might recall that the only people that have ever beaten them is OH YEAH VIRGINIA TECH THATS RIGHT BITCHES
- michael phelps (again, who isn't? though i kiiiinda don't want to see him break mark spitz's record and get 8 golds because i want to see lochte win something. that's NOT backstroke.)
- ryan lochte (the only guy who has a chance of competing with phelps)
- aaron piersol (i just have a crush on him. also we are both from ~the OC~)
- the gymnastics team (i don't know who they are or anything about them but i love gymnastics)
aaaanad that's it. as you can see, track is the most important sport, followed closely by swimming purely beacuse of all the half naked men. but i will be watching whatever is on TV because I LOVE THE OLYMPICS I AM SO HAPPY IT "STARTS" ON MY BIRTHDAY WHICH IS ONE MONTH FROM TODAY
OK THATS ALL
this is very interesting and it's something i've been wondering about for a while. obviously, the human body has limitations. nobody is ever going to run a mile in two minutes. some events might have already reached the threshold. so what happens to individual sports (on the elite level) then? they're going to be significantly less interesting. with the olympics in particular, the US absolutely dominates the two main sports (track and swimming), so it's mostly a matter of seeing people break records. i don't know how interesting it will be once people start reaching that limitation point. i mean obviously there will be small increases because of new techniques or technology - i know with swimming everybody's talking about these brand new speedos that are shaving up to a second off of people's times - but still. i'm not saying these sports will go away, because 99.99999% of people that will ever live will never come close to reaching that cutoff point, but people WILL reach that point. of course breaking records is going to get even more exciting when it starts happening less often. so i don't know. individual sports will always exist on the "normal people" level, but for the elite, i'm not sure how much i care about watching a race that's decided by a billionth of a second. that first article predicts that 2027 is when we'll start seeing a significant decline in record breaking. isn't it weird that we live during a time where humans are doing this, reaching the limit? most people that will ever have lived won't get to experience that. weiirrrrdd.
(EDIT - apparently they were already talking about this 100 years ago. hah. IF THEY ONLY KNEW.)
ANYWAY here are the people that i am so super excited about:
- brian clay (I LOOOOVE HIM. and the decathlon IS the olympics. everything else is filler programming. ITS JUST A FACT. and he will get gold this time <3)
- tyson gay (though i am still depressed about the 200m please don't bring it up)
- shannon rowbury (HOLY SHIT)
- bernard laget (also HOLY SHIT)
- actually the whole 1500m crowd in general - that race is dear to me
- dara torres (who isn't?)
- lola jones (i think i heard she's from LSU but i won't hold that against her. i have so much respect for hurdlers. i could never in a million a years.)
- marshavet hooker (tripping & falling into third place FTMFW)
- the softball team (not that i am remotely interested in softball as a sport but 1) it is the last time it will be in the olympics (the US dominates too much? nobody else in the world cares?) 2) ...the US dominates and 3) you might recall that the only people that have ever beaten them is OH YEAH VIRGINIA TECH THATS RIGHT BITCHES
- michael phelps (again, who isn't? though i kiiiinda don't want to see him break mark spitz's record and get 8 golds because i want to see lochte win something. that's NOT backstroke.)
- ryan lochte (the only guy who has a chance of competing with phelps)
- aaron piersol (i just have a crush on him. also we are both from ~the OC~)
- the gymnastics team (i don't know who they are or anything about them but i love gymnastics)
aaaanad that's it. as you can see, track is the most important sport, followed closely by swimming purely beacuse of all the half naked men. but i will be watching whatever is on TV because I LOVE THE OLYMPICS I AM SO HAPPY IT "STARTS" ON MY BIRTHDAY WHICH IS ONE MONTH FROM TODAY
OK THATS ALL