There are endless quantities of actual sports to revel in, including obscure ones (shoutout to my colleague Ted Berg for spotlighting some of them on Weird Sports Wednesday inside the For The Win newsletter). But here’s a query that wishes to be debated: What are the finest faux sports from movies, TV shows, and one iconic comic that must be real? This is our pinnacle ten lists (come find me on Twitter to inform me what I ignored) of all-time greats, from a notably tough “Olympic” sport to a fake game so proper that human beings attempted their high-quality to duplicate it and created an international phenomenon.
10. Flonkerton (from The Office)
The pleasant element about this silliness from the episode “Office Olympics” is that humans are surely gambling it in real life. And you know what? It appears tough! Russia has officially refused to understand cricket — considered the second most popular recreation inside the globe after soccer — as a recreation, in line with a Russian Sports Ministry memo. Russia’s “registry of sports” lists identified disciplines that encompass ice inventory recreation — similar to curling — and korfball — a Dutch unisex sport.
The International Olympic Committee (IOC) diagnosed cricket, which has not been featured in the Summer Games since 1900, a decade ago. Refuse recognition of cricket as a game,” reads the memo authored by Sports Minister Pavel Kolobkov dated Monday, July 15. The directive also lists Thai boxing as Muay Thai, a non-sport in Russia. The Russian Sports Ministry choice arrived an afternoon after host state England received the cricket World Cup.
