h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

Events such as "free rhyme" and "speed rap" would open up the Olympics to a radio audience...

And, of course, the talking rubbish for the longest period possible, like the marathon of the talking world, contestants would have to talk constantly on a subject of no particular nature whatsoever and make as little sense as possible with judges excluding and disqualifying those that made any kind of coherant sense in their oration of hte sppoken word.

Olympic "Just A Minute", you mean?

sounds good could have olympic 'chedder gorge' as well

Wasn't there a thread a couple of years back suggesting "Mornington Crescent" as an Olympic event...?

Hmm, it would be difficult, what with cultural differences in playing the game, I mean, what rule set would the olympic game involve?

I'd guess it'd be based on the second Nuremberg international convention. (The one where Switzerland is neutral) It'd have to be updated each year for shifting borders, though.

Hmm, surely the original standard rules, would be one way to go, many still Consider it to be the purest form of the game. The teams always start at Aldgate East so it could introduce uniformity from the beginning of hte game; might be handy for non-famuliar spectators of the game? The sequential and in order moves taken by players might also help spectators? Because Rule 12 no longer applies, it might lack that 'certain' something though
although 12a is still in force (‘Rule 12 no longer applies’).