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[–] [email protected] 47 points 3 months ago (2 children)

How about qualitative and quantitative Olympics?

All the higher, faster, farther sports on one side. All the sports that include style judges on the other.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 3 months ago

The sports vs popularity contest Olympics?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 months ago

Yes, please!

[–] [email protected] 32 points 3 months ago (2 children)

So much for the triathlon lol

[–] [email protected] 17 points 3 months ago

No now it just takes 3 Olympics

[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 7 points 3 months ago (1 children)

It’s only 1/3 wet though

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (1 children)

Yeah that one's tough, are we including any sports where the athletes get wet in the wet Olympics? Throwing steeple chase to the wet Olympics feels wrong.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 months ago

Steeple chase wet.

[–] [email protected] 24 points 3 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 9 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (1 children)

Usually dry but I think it actually melts under the pressure of a blade, so events with skates might have to go in the ~~dry~~ wet Olympics.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Afaik they just discovered that Ice has a layer of water ("pre-melted ice) at the surface, which is the lubricant that makes ice slippery. So, imo ice is wet ^^

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 months ago (2 children)

The phrase “pre-melted” is making me chuckle. If it’s pre-melted, surely it’s frozen? If it’s frozen, isn’t that just ice?

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 months ago

I think pre-melted means melted in advance, not the state before melting.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Eh, that's what they called it in the article and I'm neither a physicist nor a material scientist. They made a definite distinction between the two forms of the materials in this and other articles related to the topic which I was too topic-uninformed to understand. So you might be right :D

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 months ago

Nothing personal, my lack of understanding is what made me giggle :)

[–] [email protected] 17 points 3 months ago

Moist Olympics

[–] [email protected] 14 points 3 months ago (1 children)

I think I saw a video titled "Wet Olympics" once online.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 3 months ago

How can you have that user name, and no link!?

[–] [email protected] 7 points 3 months ago

Cartoon mascots: Sweaty and Chafey.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 3 months ago

I prefer it the way it is. The hot and cold Olympics.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 months ago

All Olympics are Sweat Olympics

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 months ago

It's wet here, but dry somewhere.

Same for summer and winter tho, so you may have a point.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 months ago (1 children)
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[–] [email protected] 7 points 3 months ago (1 children)

I don't see how. Summer games are games that can be played outdoors during the summer season. Winter games are games that can be played outdoors during the winter season.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Why so many indoor events then? Also, the typical seasons of many of of the "Summer" Olympics events are in the winter.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Why so many indoor events then?

They're games that people CAN play outdoors during summer.

Also, the typical seasons of many of of the "Summer" Olympics events are in the winter.

I don't understand this question.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 months ago (1 children)

What I mean is that I consider basketball, for example, to be a winter sport since it is properly played indoors on a wooden court and therefore its season is during the cold months of the year.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 months ago

I can't say i agree. But everyone is entitled to their own opinion