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I love it. Lets fine tune.

Alcoholicorn said

give them 1 year and a salary to train, make every event into Cool Runnings. Also only allow 26 year olds so we have a level playing field.

That would lead to doping abuse and then we'd have to do tons of checks for a year.

But how about:

• give them only weeks to train, but on site.
• have a lottery group of 10 per country, allowing only 3 to compete. That would even it out a tiny bit.
• the 7 none-competitors are still given responsibilities on the team. As supporters, coaches, spokespeople, crew, ... idk managers, etc. I wanna see what the teams come up with. Do they sell merch? Do they provide buses to get fans to cheer at the event? Do they serve their athletes to their best performance?
• everybody is given the same fixed salary separately, though
• ah yes and everybody must see the same doctors provided by the Lottery Olympics Committee. Not someone hidden or bribe-able

Then during the weeks on site there is an entire media team providing insights, doing interviews, shows and whatnot. And a reality tv show or whatever the kids are watching these days.

This is legit an SNL ski. I think they did it for figure skating.

announcer: it seems that Russia has randomly selected their 3 time gold medal athlete again to compete! how lucky!

39 Year old Electrician Dale walks across it without any issue. You see, it's just like one of his jobs that someone else engineered from a desk without ever seeing that the job is impossible. But, Dale is the man who pulls it off by crossing narrow trusses carrying tools and the new equipment, while his assistant watches from below rethinking his career knowing Dale's the man he's going to have to replace in the next 10-15 years.

Ok, but give them 1 year and a salary to train, make every event into Cool Runnings.

Also only allow 26 year olds so we have a level playing field.

My surprise is that this isn’t a common thing from the TV network. It would be fairly simple to do a “virtual” overlay of some average Joe running on the same track from previous years, and individual sports would be even easier to do featurettes.

I’d lean toward two people being featured. An average Joe male and a decathlete female or some such. There are some events that even an average man would crush, but seeing the woman beat the guy consistently would also be kind of fun.

This is almost the plot of The Hunger Games.

Pro athletes weren't (officially) allowed to compete in the Olympics until 1988

I'd pick random amateur athletes of the sport. Gymnastics in particular seems kinda dangerous if you have never trained somewhat seriously. The gap between mildly talented amateur athletes and world elite athletes should usually still be gigantic.

I've said this for years. Make it like The Price is Right and just call people down from the stands to do the 110m hurdles.

Seeing somebody train their entire life and have the perfect genetics for something isn't encouraging normal people to have a go. I want to see a fat builder doing the triple jump for a cash prize.

I've been trying to defend this idea in my friend group for years! Let's call it the normalympics, and treat it like half a reality show half a sport competition. I want to see an middle age accountant learn pole vaulting each weekend during one year.

May I present to you Eddie the Eagle

I vote yes!

Good, I'm in :)

That might actually get me to tune into the Olympics…