9 Sports That Are No Longer in the Olympics

Do you miss the excitement of the hammer stroke or the Irish peel at the Olympic Games? No? Then you're probably not devastated that the thrill-a-minute sport of croquet is no longer  an Olympic event. Some other discontinued sports, such as rope climbing and shooting live pigeons, are familiar to me. But I have never heard of distance plunging.

The event required athletes to dive into the pool and coast underwater without moving their limbs. After 60 seconds had passed – or competitors had floated to the surface, whichever came first – referees measured the distance the athletes had drifted. 

Read more at TIME.com
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Red Bull Crashed Ice - Quebec 2008

2008 Red Bull Crashed Ice Final in Quebec City. Extreme skating!
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Girls On Wheels

I was busy having babies when the original roller derby trend was happening. As a woman who is 5' 1" and 115 lbs I sense that I'm not a candidate for the sport. We won't even mention my age.

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I'm thinking of blogging less and bocking more

Does this look like fun or what?

You can now leap up to 6 feet, run lightening speeds up to 23 MPH with ease and take 9-foot strides like Steve Austin’s Six Million Dollar Bionic Man with recent aerospace employed technology using Velocity Stilts for a new sport coined as ‘Bocking’ or ‘Powerbocking.’

Read more about it at Life in the Fast Lane