I know we all stereotype a bit as to which people are good at which sports,
Brits ride bikes
Aussies play cricket
Kiwis play Rugby
Kenyans run marathons
Jamacans sprint
Chinese play table-tennis etc, etc...
Question came up today, has an Eskimo/Innuit ever won a medal at anything at World/Commonwealth/Olympic level?
I assume they would need to represent Canada or USA(Alaska) rather than have their own team?
I know we all stereotype a bit
You don't say.
I saw the eskimo olympics on channel 4 once and it was brilliant, Events included the 'Ear tug of war' and 'One legged high ball kick'
Well worth a view if its on again
Looong ago - at funny times of the day/night Channel 4 used to televise the International Inuit Olympics. Quite a spectacle - sports and games derived from hunting and survival skills.
There was one that involved kicking a thing on a string with both feet that was quite high up, that kept getting moved higher. And another that was a sort of long jump from a standing start, but between take off and landing you have to do a funny dab with your toes on a stick. The latter was derived from a technique of crossing ice flows. Weird to see in a stadium setting as a lot of the events were very static - no run ups for jump, elbow wrestling sitting on the floor, the slippery stick pull. You couldn't really spot who was a competitor and who was an official until one of them suddenly sprang up in the air
All quite odd. There only seemed to be about a dozen competitors in the whole event and the stadium seemed to contain only the comptitors immediate family and a couple of C4 camera men
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Kayaking?...
Brits ride bikes? Really?
Brits ride bikes? Really?
Medals at cycling, sailing, rowing, horse riding.
As Aussie prime minister John Howard said, "all the sports where you're sitting down."