08-21-2012, 08:01 PM
many developing nations have trouble competing in the olympics due to the lack of funding for the newest performance enhancing carbon fiber legs, pulley-enhanced bows, super frictionless canoes and air slicing bicycle tires.
with the relatively low cost of slingshots (about forty dollars [us] per high performance unit), a developing nation can easily fund a team of ten slingshot shooting olympians for about 400 dollars (not including the mandatory chinese-made spandex costumes).
an additional perk of adding slingshot shooting as an olympic event is that since glass marbles will rise the cost of funding, small rocks are overly abundant and in theory, a green-resource efficient training tool since small rocks are available everywhere and no fossil fuels will be used in attaining these rocks.
with an almost infinite amount of teenage vandals and suitable stationary and mobile targets located world wide, the actual cost of recruiting [bailing the athletes out of jail] and training this team would also be fairly inexpensive. now, i am sure some people will state that slingshot shooting should not be considered an actual sport; to these people i have only this to say:
slingshot shooting is just as much a sport as this triple jump thing, archery, ice-curling (yes... this is CONSIDERED a valid sport) and badminton.
if the olympic committees are not comfortable with these future gold-medal-winning-athletes just shooting at targets with slingshots... i am sure we can make them run around and jump a bit so that we can all get what we want. in fact, instead of having the athletes run and jump from target to target, we could definitely boost the cash flow by having them shoot at each other.
that is all.
p.s. developing nations can also save a small fortune by just getting them some t-shirts and a couple of sharpies instead of those snazzy jumpsuits... just an idea.
"Yeah. I understand the mechanics of it, shithead. I just don't understand how this is any less retarded than what I'm suggesting." - Kiley; Housebound.