T = (E x ah/mh)^t + k

Where
T is toughness
E is energy
ah is average heart rate
mh is max heart rate
k is kicks to the face
t is tightness of kit

How about dnf / no. Competitors?

Women’s Beach volleyball… just watching it made me feel stiff.

IGMC

Maybe DNF, or perhaps the number of peple who needed help either after retiring or finishing. I think the OW swim was the highest, wasn’t it? Cancellara needed help after crashing in the cycling, there was that rower…

Judo

Boxing.

The other sports mentioned are purely governed by how hard you push yourself. Boxing – if you ease up for a second you get your head punched off by a muscly angry man.

Commentating. There’s always someone who could do it better.

you get your head punched off by a muscly angry man.

Wearing cushions on his hands, and you’re wearing a cushion on your head.

I know some of the hits are hard but some looked like right pansy slaps.

The tour de france may not be run off at 100% every day, and some days some riders have easy rides, but overall for a contender it is harder than some here have made it sound. The first week is usually run off super fast, then the contenders and climbers have to work hard in the mountains. In between there are often a few slower transition stages, but these still entail 25 mph averages at least over 100+ miles. Yes there are two rest days, but they still go out for a couple of hours. Crashes, injury and illness make things harder of course.

I am not saying it is harder than say rugby or boxing, but it is very tough.

no tdf at the Oylimpcs tho 😉

The other sports mentioned are purely governed
by how hard you push yourself

I think that at the Olympics you can rely on people being able to push themselves quite far…

Hey that would be good, a stage race over the entire Olympic fortnight.

Brownlee completed the 43km cycle in 59.03. Great Britain’s Bradley Wiggins won gold in the 44km time trial in 50.39.

Thats about 17%slower / and the 10,000 metres was tactical the time difference is massive he would get lapped nearly twice in a fast race.Loads of people can do 59 mins for a 43km tt many riders do that for a flat 25 every week.I agree that the 3 events together is an amazing feat but the individual times are not brilliant against those in solo events but the stamina of Brownlee to be pretty good at all three is amazing

it’s not easy to define how hard something is. Is an event that you can complete however slowly (eg. 1500m swim) actually tougher than one you couldn’t do at all (10m diving)?