I had a daydream of being an Olympian. But without natural ability, all that training would be a waste.
Instead I decided to provide my urine to some about-to-be tested athlete so at least I could say (carefully worded), "I PARTICIPATED in the Olympics.
Agreed. An inexperienced person getting into a highly tuned contraption on water built with no regard for comfort or safety /will/ fall in and likely capsize in seconds.
The show jumping in the modern pentathlon was roughly what happens in the third panel (the untrained are the real athletes, though, in this case the horses).
It’s horribly unfair if not amusing to the poor horses, they ask them to jump too big with riders are unfamiliar with them and often not good. I can’t watch it. It is not the horses who are untrained. :(
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Instead I decided to provide my urine to some about-to-be tested athlete so at least I could say (carefully worded), "I PARTICIPATED in the Olympics.
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