What is the hardest Olympic Sport?

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8/8/2024

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00:00pole vaulting requires extraordinary hand, eye, strength, and nuts.

00:06Yeah.

00:06The pole does have to work.

00:08Pole vaulting's hard.

00:10It's an Olympics. You're doing two things at once. You're not only doing your sport,

00:14you're also cooling down because it's hot. Like it's not...

00:17Badminton is way more difficult.

00:20Do you know what I'm saying, Wiki?

00:21I mean, I get the vibe.

00:23There's a lot of swimming though.

00:25Swimming? So what?

00:26But it's treading water.

00:29Everybody treads water.

00:34There's also people like jumping on top of you.

00:36Yes, you've never tackled somebody in the water. People do it all day long.

00:39Not in an open ocean.

00:40Pools all over the United States of America, people do it.

00:43Coming onto my side of the room when it comes to water sports in the Olympics.

00:48After 2016, they did a poll of Olympians who voted water polo the toughest Olympic sport.

00:54Wow.

00:55Yes, I'm reading right now.

00:56Okay.

00:56Business insider. They've never been wrong.

00:59How do you feel about the fast walking?

01:02That's nothing.

01:03It's technical.

01:04Why is that an Olympic sport?

01:06Yeah. Some of the stuff is stupid. The pole vaulting is very dangerous.

01:10Yeah.

01:11That would be...

01:11And hard. It's hard.

01:12I would be like, oh damn, I'm going to miss the little hole that the pole goes in.

01:15That's the hardest one by far. I mean, you got basketball.

01:19Oh yeah.

01:20That's all NBA guys. You got badminton.

01:23Yeah.

01:24I mean, that's...

01:24I would agree with you on that.

01:26That's a long game. I mean, I would...

01:27Greg, you would get smoked in badminton.

01:29Oh really?

01:30Yes, he would. These guys are insanely good.

01:34Greg, I would agree.

01:35I have to say...

01:35Archery.

01:36New Scheim is the best edition the show has ever had. He is the best. I love how much it bothers Greg.

01:42I would agree that pole vaulting is the most difficult.

01:46Somebody who, their only experience playing badminton is on the Wii,

01:51is not somebody that I'm afraid of.

01:52No, I mean, I have played badminton before in actual real life.

01:56I would love to see you play volleyball. That'd be hilarious.

01:58Oh, shots fired.

02:00Volleyball's not that hard, but it's the most difficult thing to do because you got to run

02:04with the pole and the pole's like, what, 15 feet long?

02:07Yeah, and it's metal where you put the pole in.

02:10Yeah, and it's probably not that big, right?

02:12No.

02:13So you have to have enough ability to build up enough speed carrying that pole,

02:17put it into a small hole.

02:19That's what she said.

02:21Are they even treading water the whole entire time?

02:24Yes.

02:25Are you sure about that?

02:27It looks like they're standing up now.

02:29Greg, I have an idea. You know, I'm an idea guy.

02:31Next year's roadshow, each roadshow has an athletic event where you and Chime take on each other.

02:37I would love to see Greg in one of those water polo helmets.

02:40Because we can end it at the beachcomber on the beach down below at Marconi beach there,

02:44whatever it is, there's a huge beach volleyball net.

02:47I can tread water forever.

02:49Like I was a camp counselor.

02:50Yeah, like the water polo in my heart.

02:53Unbelievable.

02:54You would not be able to tread water for one minute.

02:59At Camp Thoreau in Concord, I used to teach water safety.

03:04Like I know how to, if I'm in the water, you probably don't know how to do this.

03:08I know how to remove my pants.

03:10If I had fallen off a boat or something, remove my pants, flip them over my head,

03:16collect the water, and then float on them for hours if necessary.

03:20Did you also show them how to do cannonballs into a pool?

03:24That was a weight-related failure.

03:26I think the hottest thing with the water polo is going from a tread to a swim.

03:29How did you not go with Fat Camp, Chime?

03:31That was right there.

03:33Great movie.

03:34I was probably at that Fat Camp.

03:35Heavyweights, A plus.

03:36But they could both do that.

03:38Like they could do water polo, volleyball.

03:39Neither one of them could do, and I think this is making Greg's point,

03:42neither one of them could do pole vaulting.

03:44Right.

03:44That's extremely-

03:45Pole vaulting shouldn't be an Olympic sport.

03:47As I said, it's a hard-

03:48It absolutely should.

03:49It's dumb.

03:50What do you mean it should?

03:51Who invented that though?

03:52I keep-

03:53Who cares?

03:54How did somebody in the 1920s say,

03:58let's take a giant pole and see if somebody can vault themselves up over a bar?

04:04The high jump makes sense because you actually have to jump over it,

04:07but the pole vault is dumb.

04:08You have to-

04:09The ab work that needs to go into getting yourself on the pole first,

04:14getting your legs above your head to then get over the-

04:18Yeah, but if everybody has the same length pole to vault with,

04:23anybody that can do it, and I don't discredit the fact that you can do it,

04:27but anybody that can do it should be able to do it at whatever the highest height is.

04:30No, because there's probably a way that they have to pull down the pole so the pole bends

04:35and then propels them.

04:36Correct.

04:37So that looks very difficult.

04:38All right, we gotta take a break.

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