We're having a midnight pizza and beer and somehow started ranking our field events. It was surprising on how we differed on which ones we liked and didnt like.
Let's hear your rankings and reasoning.
Please include the jumps.
(later we can rank the track events)
Also there is some debate how the line on TV has improved the events and whether we can differentiate from watching in person or on TV.
Discus.
All of the throws apart from javelin are equally as awful. Long jump or triple jump are easily the most exciting field events.
Shotputters seem to love themselves more than any other athlete aside from the sprinters so I'll go with shotput for most boring.
I find shotput and triple jump the most boring to watch.
Rater wrote:
I find shotput and triple jump the most boring to watch.
... Oh but triple jump is fun to *do*. Shotput? Also boring to do.
I love WATCHING the vertical events -- high jump and pole vault -- but I hate how they take forever to complete. There's no maximum number of jumps like the horizontal jumps. They could make infinite attempts theoretically. Then there's all the passing games. Add on it's hard to keep track who's ahead until the final attempt/miss.
Most boring to least boring:
Shotput
Discus
Hammer
Pole Vault
High jump
Javelin
Long jump
Triple jump
Think ToMMoT got this one right.
10000m
It's so boring it should be considered a field event.
kill the 10000m wrote:
10000m
It's so boring it should be considered a field event.
I have to agree.
25 fvcking laps is ridiculous.
I love distance running and I get bored watching 10ks
24 laps warmup with a 400 sprint tacked onto the end doesn't excite you???
Most boring to least boring:
Shotput
Long jump
High jump
Discus
Javelin
Triple jump
Hammer
Pole Vault
High jump and triple jump are the most exciting, they're always the events that the crowd most excited.
Javelin would be the most boring, it's never more than something going on in the background
wejo wrote:
We're having a midnight pizza and beer and somehow started ranking our field events. It was surprising on how we differed on which ones we liked and didnt like.
Let's hear your rankings and reasoning.
Please include the jumps.
(later we can rank the track events)
Also there is some debate how the line on TV has improved the events and whether we can differentiate from watching in person or on TV.
Hammer throw... esp. women's... at `88 Oly Trials there were about 25 of us watching. Couldn't tell how far they threw from behind the cage.. just lots of unladylike grunting. thanks Title IX.
The multi events are without a doubt the most boring. Who wants to sit around all day with 30 min between the events? Some of the events as stated above areboring themselves. Then you sit around 30 more events for another boring event.
The idea is cool - giving a set amounts of points for each performance in a variety of events. If you had to watch it - not so much. It would make the marathon on the track seem like the 100m final. No thanks!!
I suppose if one bothered to look up the history of the event, there might have been some point to its inclusion in the field event programme, but I can’t think of any point in throwing cannon balls around, or cannon balls on the end of a wire.
The discus event I think comes from the Ancient Greeks, I assume there was a reason why they threw them, but there was clearly an advantage back then of being proficient with a javelin.
I can see why people try to jump higher and longer in a single leap, that’s quite natural from childhood.
But, despite the enthusiasm for the hop, skip named jump by reviewers, I’m still confused as the point of that particular event - why not a skip, skip, hop, jump or a hop, hop, hop, skip and jump to make it more spectacular and error prone.
I dislike the arrogant way the triple jump (and long jump) competitors demand an enthusiastic response and clapping from the spectators and then go on to no-jump!
I’m even more irritated by the TV producers over here in Europe, switching from a track race, sometimes at a vital moment, to go over to a field event, where we wait for the competitor to finally run up and no-jump and still wastes more time replaying the no-jump!
men's pole vault, usually. Everyone sorts themselves out and then the French guy starts jumping once they're all eliminated. They should just start the bar at 5.90 and stop wasting everyone's time.
High jump is boring on TV but great in person because you can see how high the bar really is, and jumping over it is amazing.
Long jump and triple jump are awful. When only the best jump counts, they are constantly fouling. They should jump over a pool of water instead, with piranhas in it, so they have to make good jumps every time and can't foul.
Womens high jump is awful, most of the athletes are far taller than the bar
Shot put is most boring.It's the shortest throw and not much chance of it going out of control.
cool kid wrote:
Womens high jump is awful, most of the athletes are far taller than the bar
We used to have this beautiful female high jumper that we loved to watch practice and see her legs fly over her butt.
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