Ridiculous Sports That Used to Be Part of the Olympics
今回は、かつてオリンピックに採用されていた変わったスポーツ特集を紹介します。
僕のおすすめは、ソロシンクロナイズドスイミングですｗ
oxymoronという単語が出てきますので、是非聞きとって、意味を調べてみてください！
でもトランポリンはRidiculousなスポーツじゃないと思うけど...
それでは今日もYouTube英語学習を楽しんでいきましょう！
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the Olympics may take place every four
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years and only the best of the best take
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part in these athletic games we all know
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the popular sports like swimming diving
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running and skiing but did you know that
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there are a lot of other sports in the
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Olympics that were phased out over time
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facts first presents ridiculous sports
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that used to be part of the Olympics the
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horse long jump those who take part in
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the Olympics rely on their own skill and
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physical strength to win medals
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there was once a sport though called the
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horse long jump and they had to rely on
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the strength and ability of well the
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horse because the person on the horse
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didn't need to have any skills
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whatsoever it wasn't a very popular
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sport and it also wasn't fair for a
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rider to win a medal that the horse
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actually earned because of this the
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event was phased out town-planning yeah
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it was an Olympic sport and it has
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nothing to do with speed or strength
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it's a non sport that was featured at
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four Olympic Games the event was part of
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the architectural design category of the
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Arts now after just four games this
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event was removed from the Olympics
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because it wasn't about speed or
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strength
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it required zero athletic ability tug of
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war
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I'm guessing every single person
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listening to me right now is played
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tug-of-war at a family or company picnic
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maybe at their school or just in the
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backyard with some friends did you know
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that tug-of-war was actually an event in
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the Olympics for over 20 years in fact
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teams got together to try to win the
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gold in the tug-of-war event eventually
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people realized that two teams pulling
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on a rope is only exciting for the first
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three seconds finally it was faced out
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of the game's solo synchronized swimming
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how's that for an oxymoron
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synchronized swimming is a popular sport
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solo swimming is a popular sport solo
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synchronized swimming it doesn't even
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make sense if you're by yourself
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who are you synchronizing with well
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believe it or not this used to be an
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event in the Olympics so how do you
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synchronize solos swim well it was the
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music that they had to be synchronized
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with not other people today it's no
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longer a sport in the Olympics but it is
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still a popular sport around the world I
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guess that'd be like ice skaters skating
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to some piece of music it was just in
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the water Basque pelota to play this
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sport you need nothing but a racket a
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ball and a wall kind of sounds like
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racquetball to me what do you think it's
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a combination of handball
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Tenace and it was a very popular sport
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in the Olympics in 1900 but it was
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eventually phased out plunge
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for distance there are a lot of swimming
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competitions in these Summer Olympics
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where you got to swim faster than your
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opponents in 1904 there was a sport
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called plunge for distance and you
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didn't have to be a fast swimmer or even
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a strong swimmer
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all you had to do was drop as far into
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the water as possible it was a sport in
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the 1904 Olympics but it was eventually
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phased out because let's face it it's
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actually more fun to just do a
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cannonball croquet the Olympics are
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supposed to be fast intense and
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physically taxing that's what makes them
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enjoyable to watch if you were on a
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croquet team it was the exact opposite
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in the 1900 olympics croquet was a sport
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it was the most leisurely of all sports
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in the games and that's probably why it
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was phased out boring the swimming
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obstacle race obstacle races are very
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common and in the 1900 Olympics there
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was a competition that had competitors
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doing obstacle courses in the water the
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pool was filled with various obstacles
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in the pool and competitors fought to
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score the shortest time getting through
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the course tandem bicycle sprint when
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you think of a tandem bicycle you think
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of a couple riding together through the
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park right tandem bicycle lane was
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actually a sport in the Olympics and
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lasted for quite a while from 1906 all
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the way to 1972 it was a popular men's
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sport spectators would watch the two-man
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teams crash to the course and the
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audience loved it in 1972 though the
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competition was phased out of the
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Olympics club swinging less sounds
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pretty simple doesn't it but to excel at
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club swinging you needed precision
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flexibility and a lot of practice it's
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been compared to the current sport
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rhythmic gymnastics there are people who
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still play this sport today but it's no
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longer an Olympic event
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racewalking you probably are familiar
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with this even if you don't do it
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yourself you've seen these people like
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in the mall or around your neighborhood
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walking as fast as they could
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it's a great way to get exercise and if
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you do it in the mall you're out of the
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elements and it does sound strange but
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racewalking was once part of the 2016
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Olympics yeah 2016 that's how recent to
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succeed racers had to be very patient
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and complete concentration was essential
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but obviously very boring to watch rope
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climb who could ever forget the dreaded
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rope climb in gym class huh most kids
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hated that part of gym class but every
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school did it at least four
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I don't know if they do it anymore but
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they certainly did it when I was in
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school rope climbing was also an Olympic
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sport at one time in the 1896 Olympic
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Games the competitors were judged by
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their time and style while climbing the
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rope roller hockey roller hockey is a
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popular sport at rinks and on the
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streets even today and he used to be in
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the Olympics roller hockey was an
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olympic game in the 1992 Olympics
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unfortunately there weren't too many
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fans of the sport I guess it's a lot of
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fun to play
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not so much fun to watch without the
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rules of hockey and the thrill that the
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ice made for actual hockey this sport
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fell short 1992 was the only year was in
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the games and it was immediately dropped
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thereafter luck Han the Olympic sport la
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Canne is basically fencing but with
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canes not sorts now that doesn't seem
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all that difficult but it does take a
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lot of focus and precision it was
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featured in the 1924 Olympics but it
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didn't get the attention it needed in
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order to be a regular sport 1924 was the
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first and only year it was featured in
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the Olympics trampoline a lot of you
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probably grew up with trampolines in
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your own backyard
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and loved it right in 2016 the
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trampoline was featured in the Olympic
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Games and it is still part of the
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Olympic Games people really seem to
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catch on to it and there's a good chance
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that we are going to see it in the 2020
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Summer Olympics if this sport continues
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your kids could actually be training in
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your own backyard right now and compete
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in the future
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there's your retirement plan mom and dad
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hot air ballooning oddly this was an
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Olympic event in the 1900 Olympics it
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was more of a demonstration event than
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an actual sport which could be why it
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didn't become a permanent fixture those
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who took part in the event were judged
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on distance duration elevation and
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design
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I can't imagine it'd be all that fun to
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watch though standing high jump the high
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jump is a common competition at the
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Summer Olympics from 1900 to 1912 there
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was another competition that revolved
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around jumping called the standing high
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jump for this sport you do exactly what
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it sounds like rather than running and
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trying to get a high jump you're
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standing still and doing a high jump as
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high as possible it actually takes a lot
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of strength to do this and that must
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have been a crazy sight to see
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I wouldn't mind seeing this one come
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back just once so I could watch it
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pigeon shooting today a sport like the
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1900 Olympic sport pigeon shooting would
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never be allowed the reason for this is
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that instead of using clay pigeons like
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we do today
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the
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Petters in 1900 used real pigeons during
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the 1911 games over 300 birds were shot
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today that would be considered animal
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cruelty and animal rights activists
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would be up in arms and you would
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probably be going to jail for Cruelty to
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Animals people must not have liked it
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too much in the 1900 games either that's
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probably the reason that it didn't
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become a permanent sport but people
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still today do you like to shoot at clay
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pigeons all over the world underwater
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swimming ok that's a bit redundant I
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mean don't you have to be underwater to
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swim well this actually was a game but
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it didn't last now the problem with the
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sport is that all the action would take
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place under water when the spectators
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couldn't see what was going on now today
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we do have advanced waterproof
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technology that would allow us to watch
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what's happening under the water and
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because of that it might make a comeback
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but you never know and if it does come
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back if they need to call it something
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other than underwater swimming because
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that's a stupid name dueling pistols
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here's something that sounds deadly
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dueling pistols was a popular Olympic
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sport in the 1900s but nobody wanted to
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die during the games gee I wonder why so
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they didn't shoot at each other during
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the event competitors shot at dummies
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using wax bullets it didn't last in the
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Olympics unfortunately because that
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actually might be kind of interesting
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the in Oh at 1 foot high kick this was
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never an Olympic event but it is a
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popular non Olympic sport
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competitors have to kick a ball that
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suspended in the air using only one foot
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the difficult part is that they have to
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land on that same foot because the ball
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is about seven feet above the ground you
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have to be very flexible and very strong
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and very agile to win
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flaming puck unicycle hockey let me say
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that again because it just sounds so
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strange
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flaming puck unicycle hockey well fire
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can make just about every sport more
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intense we all know the Canadians love
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their hockey and a Canadian man named
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Darren Bedford created the sport of
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flamin puck unicycle hockey players
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follow the typical ice hockey rules but
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they play on unicycles can you imagine
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trying to balance on a unicycle on ice
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and then to make it even more intense
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they light the puck on fire not an
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Olympic sport but dagnabbit I want to
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see this somewhere if there's a YouTube
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video of this send it to me because I
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want to see that and violate this Apollo
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this is Finland's version of baseball
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but it looks a lot different than the
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era conversion the ball is pitched
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vertically and that allows players to
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influence the power and direction of
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their hits if you're a fan of American
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baseball you're gonna get a kick out of
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this sport if you can find a video of it
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somewhere so are any of these Olympic
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events is something you like to see
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brought back or maybe there's a sport
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that you'd like to see the Olympics
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bring in that we didn't discuss tell us
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