What running events would you like to see added to the Olympics?

There needs to be a test of agility and a test of hand-eye coordination

100m slalom

And then that contest from american gladiators where the gladiator shoots the gun and you have different guns to shoot back

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I would like to see a mile run that is run up a steep incline.

Not sure if you're kidding or not, but that's actually not a bad notion. I figure, with how overstuffed the swimming events are, why not have more running opportunities? Like, what if they varied up the surfaces? You could have distance events on trails, or have an obstacle course.

I was going to say add an Ultra event. But then I remembered that you are asking for a "running" event.

Medley relay for sure. And a combined throwing event, throwathlon.

Color Run

Running drunk through back yards after bailing on a cab fare

Orienteering

Running from a restaurant without paying a bill.

(parameters.. event takes place at 3:00am and participant must be inebriated)

Zlatan wrote:

Medley relay for sure. And a combined throwing event, throwathlon.

Though I suppose the Decathlon kind of covers this, I'd love to see an overall throwing event where the thrower competes in all four throws.

50K walk fan boy wrote:

Running drunk through back yards after bailing on a cab fare

It can be called the Lochte!

semi tough wrote:

Color Run

Don't even joke about such horrors!

4x100 hurdle relay. Around the track, not shuttle.

AThletics already has 47 medal events. More than any other sport in the games.

How much more bloated does the schedule have to be?

Crossfit mountain trail run

Brianruns10 wrote: I'd love to see cross country added to the winter games. Mirror the World Cross and have a long and short course, with team and individual medals.

I second this motion, except that I see no reason to hold the event(s) as part of the Winter Olympics. Cycling has its MTB race in addition to the road race, time trial and track competitions, so there is no reason that XC can't be held as a running event in the Summer Olympics. As for dilution of the other distance events, that is a tired and completely unfounded argument. Plenty of world class distance runners get left off Olympic teams, so including one or two more races in a different discipline simply creates another opportunity for a distance runner to specialize.

I've heard rumors from a reliable source that they're adding the beer mile to the 2012 Olympics.

1) Distance relays (medley, 4×8, etc)

2) Cross Country instead of 10k, can be run in summer or winter games, perhaps would have a required amount of elevation change and hurdles.

3) 50m dash

4) I like the sprinting slalom idea from an earlier poster.

Could we invent new styles of racing entirely? How about this: Race on the track, every 400m the person in last place is eliminated. Based on this, the number of people in the field determines the distance run (25 people=10k), and the race would inspire people at the back of the pack to pick up the pace every lap or risk elimination.