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If you trained for five years…
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Athlai
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One of my friends at University ended up being a water polo reserve for NZ with no previous experience or particularly strong talent for swimming, nor physical fitness. I think there are a few minor team sports like that with a lot of amateurs with little experience but it is so far from the spotlight no one cares. I reckon while I'd probably be best at shooting/archery in terms of skills I could actually acquire, I'd still disgrace myself because the caliber of the individual performers are going to be extremely high and they're sports that have a scoring system that quantifies skill.
If your country is relatively crap at rugby sevens, 5 years training might get you to a position where you wouldn't you be an utter disgrace.
If your country is relatively crap at rugby sevens, 5 years training might get you to a position where you wouldn't you be an utter disgrace.
Burgey
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A few of the lads from our cricket club decided after attending the European Handball at the Sydney Olympics that we would form a team, represent Australia because no one else did and go to the Athens Olympics.
We had a meeting about it then decided to get on the piss at the pub instead.
We had a meeting about it then decided to get on the piss at the pub instead.
dontcloseyoureyes
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When I was a teenager probably skateboarding. Now - nothing.
Daemon
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Haha reminds me of when a group of Sri Lankans did exactly that.
They formed a team, went to Germany to play Handball, played a game and all 23 players disappeared overnight.
When the Germans contacted Sri Lankan authorities they were told Sri Lanka had no handball team lol
How Did an Entire Sri Lankan Handball Team Vanish in Germany?
Fox News called them terrorists. Their home country pretended they never existed. But in the end, they were only doing what was best for their families
melmagazine.com
dontcloseyoureyes
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That man has killed people for sure.
Howe_zat
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Shooting is definitely the one with the lowest physical barriers to entry so would be the one that's most fun to enter, even though I would be crap at it. But at least I probably wouldn't injure myself like in pretty much everything else.
What about the other end of the scale? The triathlon and marathon swim stand out as events where I would be more likely to die than complete it
What about the other end of the scale? The triathlon and marathon swim stand out as events where I would be more likely to die than complete it
Athlai
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I fear top speedrunners more than athletes
Daemon
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If you had 5 years of training I think you’d manage to just about complete it tbf.
Boxing would be pretty terrifying.
Or 3x3 basketball where I’d be a mere spectator.
Would be hopeless at gymnastics too.
HeathDavisSpeed
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I'm a pretty fast walker. I wonder if I had 5 years of training whether I could have done reasonably at the old walking. I mean, I'd still be a complete embarrassment to my country because I'd be doing the speed walking ffs, but maybe I couldda been a contender!
RossTaylorsBox
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Fencing
weeman27bob
International Vice-Captain
I think when Anthony Joshua won his gold medal, he was 23 and he only started boxing at 18, so that's 5 years of training to get you up to gold medal level...
Joshua has certain physical advantages though. A bit like Joel Embiid, who started playing basketball at 15 and was in the NBA five years later.
Yes it would definitely be shooting although I'm not certain I'd be totally safe from injuring myself.
Howe_zat
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I'm not certain I wouldn't injure someone else either, come to think of it
Coronis
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tbf my mates recently did a charity run over 2 weeks which averaged out to over a marathon a day. They did about 6 months training for it. (one was already fit - mostly bulk tho, the other was an average bloke) You’d probs still embarrass the country but you wouldn’t die from it.
