jordan @jordan stratton

In order to get a true representation of each country’s athletic skill, the Olympics should randomly select citizens to compete like it’s jury duty:

Who’s next on the balance beam for the US? Is it Simone Biles? Nope it’s 39yo electrician, Dale. Wow he does not look confident

  • usualsuspect191English
    34·
    11 months ago

    For safety, maybe an age range of something like 18-65. Now, how do we prevent the selection from being rigged?

      • usualsuspect191English
        1·
        11 months ago

        Safer than a 90 year old… Maybe there’d be a basic physical the person has to pass? Can’t have it be too stringent though as that’d defeat the purpose of getting the “average” person

    • dejected_warp_core@lemmy.worldEnglish
      2·
      11 months ago

      Now, how do we prevent the selection from being rigged?

      Let all the other countries openly select “athletes” from your country’s official census data. It’ll turn into a complete shit show, but it will be entertaining. Dale’s entire company is going to get tapped for the 100m dash, but so will a bunch of farmers from rural China.

      But you also have to remove the incentive to rig it in the first place. The current Olympics are used as a tool to promote your country as having literally stronger people than others. So that’s gotta stop. This means no prizes, events that celebrate the worst along with the best, and last place gets as much attention as first.