High School Freshman- easiest sport to qualify for the Olympics

Figure skating or bobsled/louge/skullwhatever

curling

equestrian

Archery.

THE AMERICAN DREAM wrote:

the easiest sport

Crossfit.

(sport? hahahahahahahahaha)

ehem...

Yes, Crossfit.

It will be an Olympic sport soon.

nothing athletic in any way, obviously.

something that you can just spend hourse every day practicing.

curling i imagine, cant have many curlers in the USA. hundreds maybe, that gives you good odds. better move to alaska or something though

reed wrote:

nothing athletic in any way, obviously.

something that you can just spend hourse every day practicing.

Archery.

What about rowing? surely those things have motors or something.

Probably figure skating for men. Its one of the winter sports anyways. Maybe nordic. Every major city probably has a ice skating rink. There are many fewer ski places and even fewer people who go skiing who do nordic. Nordic is a big winter sport in the northeast, upper west, and upper midwest, but probably 2/3 of the US population doesn't have access to it.

Edward Teach wrote:

Probably figure skating for men. Its one of the winter sports anyways. Maybe nordic. Every major city probably has a ice skating rink. There are many fewer ski places and even fewer people who go skiing who do nordic. Nordic is a big winter sport in the northeast, upper west, and upper midwest, but probably 2/3 of the US population doesn't have access to it.

Figure skating is not easy. Nordic skiing may not have the numbers that track & field has but you'll have to compete with very talented athletes-- wasn't Ben True a Nordic skiier in college? I think archery is the "easiest" because it's more skill & less athleticism. Still would take a ton of work. To the OP-- instead of the Olympics have you considered going to college to get laid?

apparently bobsled since track and field runners that have never done the sport can just jump right in and make the team.

Team sports are always a lot easier than individual sports. Curling should be easy.

Nothing is going to be easy. For any given sport, there are people who are so good at it that you won't believe it.

It's just like running. You think you're good because you can run the 5k in 16 minutes or whatever, and then you find out that that isn't even close to marathon pace for an Olympic runner. Same thing for curling.

And for one's like luge, sure, maybe you can make it pretty quick if you're super-athletic, but is that you?

runlongandhard wrote:

apparently bobsled since track and field runners that have never done the sport can just jump right in and make the team.

Given Lolo Jones was a very high level performer in another sport that is very difficult to make the Olympic team and her skillset translates perfectly to the bobsleigh, this does show that it's perhaps very difficult to make an Olympic bobsleigh team.

Just because a high level track athlete can just make the transition, it doesn't mean it's easy. It's a bit like saying (not exactly and less extreme of course) that the marathon is an easy thing to win because Geb was a top 5k/10k guy and he just stepped right up and broke the WR.

Coxswain you just have to sit and curse

Anything in the Winter Olympics.

THE AMERICAN DREAM wrote:

I am fourteen years old and my dream is to go to the Olympic Village and get poon. What is the easiest sport to qualify for the Olympics in?

Some stats:

Dual citizen Russia/United States

19:30 5k PR

While this message board is the place where your dreams become reality, I think you need to refine your dreams. People don't train for the Olympics to get poon.

Curling, Archery, Racewalking, Modern Pentathlon?

snowboarding or moguls - probably less than 1% of the world's population have tried it (really any winter olympic event).

wellthatwaseasytofind wrote:

Ranking all 21 Winter Olympic Sports from easiest to hardest. Here ya go!

http://www.indystar.com/story/sports/2014/02/05/ranking-all-21-winter-olympic-sports-from-easiest-to-hardest/5229169/

As if the author of that list had read this thread and expected people to misunderstand, he even clarified that this wasn't a list of the sports of how hard they were to win - but a list of how hard they were to complete a routine/run in.

So....it goes nowhere into answering the OPs question.