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Aug 2021
11:20am, 6 Aug 2021
15,037 posts
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rf_fozzy
Can we all agree that the modern pentathlon is a little bit silly....
The whole thing about a random horse is ridiculous.
Could include some more deserving sports if it were removed.
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Aug 2021
11:22am, 6 Aug 2021
15,038 posts
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rf_fozzy
I think the bit I dislike about it is that it's 'posh' people's sports combined (apart from the swimming and running) and is therefore ridiculous.
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Aug 2021
11:22am, 6 Aug 2021
13,174 posts
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ITG 🇮🇸
Modern Penathlon is The Business. Perfect prep for the zombie apocalypse.
Shooting; sword-fighting; running away; swimming (everyone knows zombies cannot swim) and to top it off, escaping on horseback, leaping over obstacles and stuff.
(PS: I just all sports in whether they would be useful in the zombie apocalypse.)
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Aug 2021
11:25am, 6 Aug 2021
10,589 posts
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jda
Yes, and not even your own horse, but a random one that you managed to find.
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Aug 2021
11:26am, 6 Aug 2021
7,827 posts
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Northern Exile
Fozzy, you're just a die-hard red 
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Aug 2021
11:36am, 6 Aug 2021
37,566 posts
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Night-owl
And you get a horse who doesn't want to play
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Aug 2021
11:38am, 6 Aug 2021
37,567 posts
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Night-owl
Is the commentator reading this he just said what I said
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Aug 2021
11:40am, 6 Aug 2021
15,041 posts
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rf_fozzy
NE - yes. Been supporting Liverpool FC since I was about 6. Was pleased to see them finally win a league title that I remember them winning...
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Aug 2021
11:40am, 6 Aug 2021
10 posts
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Slowboy
....and you get "athletes" who can't ride for toffee. Honestly, I can't watch it, even at olympic level a lot of the riding qualifies as abusive.
It's not that the horses don't want to play, it's that the riders haven't a clue what they are doing
(GB athletes are generally pretty good, though, as most of them will have learned to ride on recalcitrant pony-club ponies)
I wouldn't be against seeing it removed from t'olympics simply on welfare grounds.
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Aug 2021
11:45am, 6 Aug 2021
29,052 posts
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macca 53
*tongue firmly in cheek*. It’s an event designed to show how the “officer class” would have behaved in WW1. Fight your way to an escape route, run like f*ck to the rear lines, swimming rivers if need be, grab the first horse you can and hightail it away from the muck and bullets. The only thin missing is necking a bottle of champers when you reach safety.
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