Allow me to introduce you to 80s legend Eddie the Eagle.
The movie was good too. Hugh jackman gets to really flex his chops in it.
Oh damn, I forgot I watched this movie. It was good
Not the Olympics, but for the difference between regular people and top tier athletes. If you're not familiar with "the Scallenge":
However, one player who developed a reputation for being among the worst in the NBA was Brian Scalabrine. He was criticised for being a bench warmer and averaged just 3.1 points per game during his time in the league.
And in 2013, after continued criticism for his bench role, he famously responded: "I'm closer to LeBron than you are to me."
He plays (and destroys) non-pro players. It's not like regular dudes off the street. He's playing people who were trying out for the NBA, and they were the top of their own local league.
NBA’s ‘Worst Ever Player’ Took On Three Amateurs in Never-Before-Seen Challenge
Check out average rob on YouTube. He's a Belgian dude who has done a ton of different sports as a "average" guy. He started the whole thing already pretty muscular and has gotten way more in shape over the course of what he's done. But he also has his brother do everything with him and he is very not in shape. They're some funny guys as well, great videos IMO.
They do skeleton here, the most insane form of going down a tube of ice(at the place where that one guy doing skeleton died a while back IIRC): https://youtu.be/WjkRHgY0yZg
He's great! I love the turbo cross.
Here is Shelly-Anne Fraser-Pryce (multiple Olympic medals as well as world championships in sprinting) running in a school parent's race vs. other moms.
From the ground camera view she's like Sonic the Hedgehog, jeez
For the 2018 olympics they did a series where they had athletes swap sports. Some of them had a closer connection (like figure skating and ice hockey) and others just seemed more random.
Then another channel later did some more in-depth vids on the same concept, with even some of the same overlap, like hockey and figure skating
a regular person but also like a really enthusiastic hobbyist
They had Collin Jost do the bobsled with a skilled athlete doing the driving. That was pretty damn entertaining.
Wasn’t there a comedian who said that bobsled was the only sport where the person could be an unwilling participant?
Yeah, let an untrained person do that long jump thing where they spit in the face of gravity.
I feel like they did that as a TV show with celebrities, similar idea to that Celebrity Splash high dive show
But I want to see Geoff from accounting, who has never done a vaguely extreme thing in his life, get strapped to a pair of skis and pushed down the ramp.
This feels suspiciously specific. Is Geoff a willing participant in your scenario? How much do you care about how Geoff fares in the landing? Has Geoff been denying your expense reports?
In my ideal world Geoff was chosen by lottery, he does not want to do it, but he surprises everyone by not absolutely eating shit and finishes cleanly.
It was called The Jump but it got cancelled after to 4 seasons due to sky high insurance costs due to several injuries and overall poor ratings.
i wouldn't have touched the curling stone
Be the change you want to see in the world.
Just go for a run and see how you compare.
How to dad vs Kiwi Olympians and sports stars.
That's incredible, exactly what OP wanted
This sounds like an entire show worth of content
It is pretty funny!
This woman is doing it:
Does she always do it with the audio obnoxiously sped up like that, though?
I love the concept, but that made it difficult to finish the video.
And that person should be Jack Black.
It may work ok for curling, figure skating, or cross country, but you get into anything involving a slope and it starts to get really dangerous if you don’t know what you’re doing. Think moguls, big air, or ski jumping.
This would be much safer for the summer Olympics.
The drone footage has really helped with that, and I saw at least one run from a GoPro perspective that also helped with perspective.
the side cam on moguls is great at showing true speed and just how much work they're doing with their legs
I'd say Elizabeth Swaney is as close as you'll come for winter Olympics
It kinda makes sense until you start thinking about it case by case. Who wants to watch an untrained non-athlete do figure skating? A lousy javelin thrower could kill someone.
Who wants to watch an untrained non-athlete do figure skating?
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A lousy javelin thrower could kill someone
That one's fair, though
Makari espe did a video recently where she tries to learn figure skating, can recommend.
A lousy javelin thrower could kill someone.
Nah. They teach that shit to highschool kids. The worst that happens is the thrower rotates the javelin and whacks the bar into the back of their own head.
Source: used to throw javelin.
They kind of did that for the breakdancing event at the last Summer Olympics. It did not go well.
That one girl killed the whole thing.
Watching the finals (that she obviously wasn't part of), and the athleticism on display was incredible. I could've done without the whole "dissing" attitude, but the dancing was super impressive.
Ski jump...
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