week 6 discussion - Alternative Olympic games

What events could be put into an alternative olympic games? Where would the games take place? Who would the participants be?

An activity that should be included in the alternative Olympic Games is a musical blind test, because knowing the music titles is a performance and requires a lot of training and reactivity, but also a very developed hearing. A very diversified culture is not to be neglected, according to the different cultures, and the different periods. Several themes should be able to be drawn out according to several choices to be defined, such as national anthems, hits of the 80s, disney music, Oscar winning film music...

The activity that could be added to the alternative Olympic Games is orienteering because it requires concentration, a good sense of orientation but also good physical condition because you have to run fast and long to find as many markers as possible. I therefore believe that this discipline should be part of the alternative Olympic Games.

Baseball must be reinstated in the Olympic program. Softball and baseball have both been removed from the Olympic program after Beijing 2008. This could be good if they are reinstated in games that will take place in the United States, since baseball comes from the United States. The players will represent their country. There will be one team per country as it may be for football or handball. The rules will be the only mems in the MLB which is the American league. The participating countries will have qualified at a qualifying tournament preceding the games.

The activity I would like to see in the alternative Olympics would be dance like modern, jazz, classical, contemporary... During the Olympics, I look a lot at artistic gymnastics. We can see that the gymnasts integrate many dance steps, so why this artistic sport it couldn't be part of this competition.
However, the dance is so subjective that it would be delicate to judge. But personally, I think that might be a good idea and it would show the whole world what dance really is.

If i can introduce a new sport in next olympic program is the Horse Polo. This sport is very require as well as for the man and for the animal. This sport come from Prusia and was democratize by the british army. Moreover there is too many country who play at this game and the best team is the argentina team

A sport that could be integrated into the Olympic Games could be parallel video games. Indeed one might think that it is not a sport that it is not tiring however one must use such concentration and a lot of energy that it is very exhausting and in another way. It will happen in a large room with full computers and consoles there would be tournaments all alone and by team and the winner would win a medal customize in the field of video games.

It can be funny if quidditch was integrate in the Olympic Games.
Quidditch is a sport inspired by the saga named Harry Potter. To resume this sport, one team has to score points by throwing a ball trough circles without being touch by balls that the other team throws. Each team has a broom between their legs. If a player of the first team is touch by the ball, he returned in is "camp" by walking without the broom . At the end of the game, there is also someone in yellow on the field who has got a ball attached behind him. And when one person of one team catch this ball, the game is finish.

Yes, this game is a little bit folklores but the best part is that it is fixed between men and women. And quidditch recognize non-binary people.

the flip-flop is an event that could be integrated into alternative Olympic Games. this game could take place in a village square, with men and women (children and adults), participants of all ages, who want to have fun and win. the flip-flop is played by two people. The first player throws the flip-flop with his foot, the second receives it without it reaching the ground. The flip-flop should not weigh more than 225 grams. After all the conditions have been met, the distance can then be measured. It must be thrown as far as possible.

For me, Alternative Olympics Games will highlight all the unknow sports, and all controversial sport, In my mind we should see Billard, Chess, e-Sport (a lot of different video games, Fifa20, LoL, Overwatch, CaD, PuBG, because fortnite sucks (oops sorry not sorry), Civilisation 6... ), mini-golf + golf, dwarf-throwing, airsoft, petanque, baby-foot, diving, orienteering (of course), luge, dart, bowling... Of course, all these sports will be declined to create more different ranking, like a men competition, a women competition a mixed competition, a men team competition, a women team competition, a mixed team competition, and you can also make these competition harder by making a normal ranking, and also a blinded ranking, where the competitors will have to do the sport with something making them blinded.. These AOG (Alternative Olympics Games) would take place in Paris for the first time, and like the real Olympic Games, every four years set up in different country.

In my alternative Olympics games, I see just one test, just one event. It would be an event like a Hunger games, with the exception that death would be avoided as much as possible. So it would be a survival game, the last person not to have abandoned will win. It would be in natural environment, in Amazonian forest (the part that is not deforested), to make people see the beauty of the nature. Every 5 years, not 4 years, these olympics games will be in another environment, for example, namibia desert, Nevada desert, siberia...
About participants, everybody would be able to participate, men like women of course, the disabled, the elderly, except for minors.

Chess should be at the olympics games because it takes concentration , cold blood , a very good memory to both predict the shots but also those of the opponents.
The instinct outside the technique also comes into plays.
Chess may be added at the JO of 2024 even if it does not require very physical conditions , the mental conditions on the other hand are exeptional.

I think we could be introduce e-sport at the Olympics games. It must be admitted that this can go against the principle of J-O because it does not really correspond to the characteristics of sport where physical effort is an indispensable component for an activity to be called "sport".
If we go in this principle sports such as archery, rifle shooting, golf or curling are well represented at the Olympic Games. And new activities are not very physical could join the list since petanque and billiards are also candidates for integration to the Olympics in Paris.
E-sport is very similar to the sports mentioned above if we only look at the skills that allow athletes to perform at the highest level: skill, analytical skills, effective strategy and even reflexes and a strong team spirit for some titles.
Regarding the status of the participants they should be recognized as professional and there would be no particular age from the moment they are recognized as such.

I would like the ball to the prisoner to become an Olympic discipline. Because the rules are simple, it's funny. Everyone can play it. There is a risk of injury because the ball is foam. Moreover sport is allowed to develop its reflexes and its capacity of pulling which requires the presition of the speed. There is a certain technique to acquire to shoot to perfection. He asks reflexes to dodge the ball or catch the ball