10 Ways To Make The London 2012 Olympics More Exciting
5. Pistol Shooting
Why it Sucks: Whichever way you look at it, pistol shooting in the Olympic Games is boring for everyone except those doing the shooting and gun fetishists. For a game that involves firearms, theres surely a more exciting way to deliver the competition to us, right? Something thats a bit lessstationary. How to Make it More Exciting: Instead of your typical stand-aim-shoot format, the competitors now enter into a mocked up military style assault course, complete with pop out cardboard villains and the odd decoy little girl with a stack of school-books of course. Athletes are now not only scored on the accuracy of their shots but also their speed through the course and their ability to minimise civilian casualties. Of course as with many games in the Olympics, Pistol competitors are split into categories of distance which could pose an issue perhaps addressed by adding separate courses of varying degrees of intensity for each Pistol category. Potential Issues: Theoretically there arent many; these assault courses are still regular features of military training grounds and I cant imagine itd be that difficult to just borrow one for an afternoon. TV coverage might also be an issue, that is if the BBC considers their cameramen being shot a problem, but could easily be addressed by fitting each course with a Big Brother style network of cameras.
