It doesn't matter whether you can perform the sport at any level or not.
I'd choose figure skating. I think it's amazing the things they can do on ice. Or maybe gymnastics - the floor exercise. How can people seemingly float in the air like that during some of those flips??
Gymnastics would be amazing. Also the 100-yard dash. I'd *love* to run really fast!
Pole vaulting would be fun too.
All of these are dependent on being very good at them!
I should have said the 100-yard dash! My asthma was bad when I was a kid, so in gym class I was excused from anything involving running. I might have done the 50-yard dash, but that's the most I could do. It would be fun to run fast for longer distances.
share:( That must have sucked. Did you grow out of it or do you still have it? I've heard of people who had asthma as kids, who didn't have it as adults.
I've always hated running, mostly because usually I'd get a stitch in my side before I could ever get to the point where people came you get a "runner's high." But it would be so much fun to love it, and be really fast!
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Hockey and rugby. My wife was on her high school figure skating team.
shareInteresting. Must be a Canadian thing. I've never heard of figure skating being a high school sport. But hey, I'm old. What do I know??
I used to hang around with some figure skaters, one who was an Olympic alternate (back in the dark ages).
I was a dash man ( both 50 & 100 yards ) on the high school track team. I became inspired by the 1951 movie, Jim Thorpe: All American, which I discovered by accident late one night. In my 20s I became a long distance runner. In the midst of that transition, it was the discovery of the movie Chariots of Fire which stirred and inspired me, so mine would most likely be running related.
shareJousting. Do they not have that? They should. Of existing events, I'd do wrestling, but I don't know enough about it to say whether I'd do freestyle or Greco Roman.
shareBut will the participants survive??
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I have it's very exciting. I am reading Michael Crichton's Timalone right now so jousting is on my mind.
shareEither surfing or skateboarding.
Neither are Olympic sports yet, but both are slated to be featured 2020 summer Olympics in Tokyo and I think the uninitiated will be shocked at what skateboarders can do.
But if forced to choose I'd probably opt to surf since it's not as hard on the knees and risks of sustaining compound fractures. 🤕
Five Finger Fillet!
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It's not an Olympic sport. I was making a joke. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Knife_game
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