Olympic Unimpression
Look, I’m not the fittest cat on the planet. I do things like reading for a living and abhor things like running. It’s clear to me that I’m not most likely Olympian.
In addition, there are some sports that just look really difficult. Like hurdles. Or shotput. It looks hard as hell to throw a shotput. [Or is shotput the name of the sport and the ball is called something else?]
But while I’ve accepted the fact that I will never be a shotputress, I’m pretty convinced that I could play water polo at an Olympic level.
Granted, tonight is the first time that I’ve ever seen water polo on teevee, but it looks mostly like short bursts of swimming (check), treading water (check) and close-range throwing (checkish).
[Also, why isn't it called 'water soccer' (or 'football'), since it closely resembles soccer and completely lacks any sticks.] [To that end, why isn't polo called 'horse hockey'? There's a sport I could get behind.]
Actually, the only thing keeping me from a water polo career is the thought of being wet again today (or ever again). I know we’re all supposed to be happy about the precipition given the status of the dams, but cold, driving rain is my least favorite weather ever. I felt (and looked) as though I’d been drowned when I got to school today.
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August 21st, 2008 at 10:31 pm
The metal ball is the shot, put is what you do with it.
August 23rd, 2008 at 1:11 am
you’re saying you can tread water for two hours and play handball? I think not. Beach vollyball seems doable tho.
August 23rd, 2008 at 5:57 pm
Damn it, Neil. Why do you know everything?
August 24th, 2008 at 8:06 pm
Mmm. The shot. I have fond memories of not being able to ‘put’ the ’shot’ in PE at school.
That said, I was also the person who couldn’t swim 50m in one go, but rather kept swimming like this: stroke stroke lane-rope ouch stroke stroke lane-rope ouch stroke stroke lane-rope ouch stroke stroke lane-rope ouch stroke stroke lane-rope ouch … and so on.