Now on MSNBC -- Olympic Power Walking!

[RummyTheDummy]

Olympic power walking. I have offically stepped through the looking glass.

[Bozita]

1. haha ... How could that ever compare to Olympic windsurfing?

[Kellanved]

16. nah, that's sailing "Mistral Class"

:evilgrin:

[The_Casual_Observer]

2. Olympic gambling next?

[RummyTheDummy]

3. Might as well

This is the most fucking ridiculous thing I've ever seen. No offense to seniors, but anything an 80 year-old woman can do and do well at any local mall is NOT a sport.

[MadHound]

10. Tell you what friend, why don't YOU go out and try that walking pace

For oh say, a couple-three miles. Sorry friend but power walking is an extrememly grueling sport, and it isn't for everyone including eighty year old ladies. We have a former Olympic gold medalist in my little city, and the guy is in great shape, and can still walk your ass into the ground. Tell you what, get back to me when you can go six minute mile after six minute mile.

It may be an obscure sport, but a sport it truly is, and until you can duplicate it, don't knock it. It isn't like there aren't a bunch of other obscure sports in the Olympics.

[0007]

13. Folks in the nursing home would definitely agree with you.

But who in the hell wants to watch it?

[MadHound]

15. There are lots of sports that a lot of people don't want to watch

Golf, marathon, NASCAR racing, etc. Doesn't make them, or race walking, any less valid as a sport. It was that same kind of mentality that kept, and has kept soccer from being a major American sport. Sporting sensibilities differ from country to country. Witness badmitten, or table tennis. Most people in this country consider those sports to be a snorer, but in Asian countries they are idealized like we do with football.

[RummyTheDummy]

18. Get the out of here with that nonsense

LMAO at your reply.

You know what, stripping my house and painting it on a hot summer day is grueling too, but it's sure as hell not a sport. So is mowing a 6 acre lawn. Not a sport either.

You're pretty funny though, even if it's not intentional. Walking a sport? Give me a fucking break.

[terrya]

21. There is a move to make poker an Olympic sport.

Honest to God. Poker. People sitting around a table playing cards.

[minkyboodle]

4. Look at those hips go!!!!

I about fell out of my chair!!

[Kitsune]

5. Powerwalking, but no Dance Dance Revolution?

*sigh* I'll never get to the Olympics.. :evilfrown:

[AmandaRuth]

6. synchronized swimming and diving

get me. What is the point? It is especially scary when the swimmers pop out of the pool with all that Vegas showgirl makeup on. Yeech..

[Bozita]

7. Olympic make-overs -- Why not?

Bring People Magazine to life.

What could be better?

[Guaranteed]

8. "This guy is a LEGEND!"

hee hee

[Skittles]

9. Penguins

that's what I think of

[Crazy8s]

11. Don't Knock It Till You've Tried It

Nothing easy about power walking. That special walk takes time and patience to learn. My hubby is a competing power walker. He's not as fast as the olympic walkers, but he often wins in his age group--he walks a nine minute mile when he's cookin' and passes lots of runners at events. It also takes the fat off! My husband lost thirty pounds--and his enire body shaped up. I wish I had seen the olympic racewalkers, just to see the walking techniques.

[soothsayer]

14. man, I'm a great fastwalker! I'd only do good in sprints, not distance

I guess---or I suppose I'd have to train (borrrring!). But boy I have a natural fast walk gait. I used to walk that way all the time in school. I was always a weird kid.

[RummyTheDummy]

19. That's all well and good

But it's not a sport. Period.

[muriel_volestrangler]

12. People here seem unaware the 50km walk has been in the Olympics since 1932

and at other distances since 1908. This is not a new event. Yes, it does seem a bit strange asking someone to go fast, but to ignore the fastest way they could go; but then swimming has breaststroke races.

[DS1]

17. They should be required to consume a cubic meter of beer first, and

14 soft tacos.

[arwalden]

20. The Look Like Ducks (Waddle, Waddle, Waddle)