Difficulty of the Olympics

[American1998 0]

A friend and I were debating the objective difficulty of the Olympics. He said that winning a Nobel Prize was a lot harder than an Olympic gold medal, but can this even be measured?

 

[Monzanator 4,846]

It can't be measured since every award - Nobel Prize included - is ahem... awarded so it's a judgement decision. There's nothing judgemental in Olympic results. 

 

You can compare Nobel Prize to something like a Golden Ball in football (soccer) though.

[American1998 0]

Thanks for your response. 

Does that make equestrian less "legitimate", than running, relatively speaking?

 

[Vojthas 949]

48 minutes ago, Monzanator said:

There's nothing judgemental in Olympic results. 

Except of:

- artstic swimming

- BMX - freestyle

- diving

- dressage

- artistic gymnastics

- rhytmic gymnastics

- trampoline

- skateboarding

- surfing

- figure skating

- halfpipe

- slopestyle

- moguls

- aerials

- ski jumping style

[Monzanator 4,846]

1 hour ago, American1998 said:

Thanks for your response. 

Does that make equestrian less "legitimate", than running, relatively speaking?

 

 

Equestrian doesn't rely on human factor alone. I'd say it's a more difficult event than any form of running.

[dcro 10,210]

50 minutes ago, Vojthas said:

Except of:

- artstic swimming

- BMX - freestyle

- diving

- dressage

- artistic gymnastics

- rhytmic gymnastics

- trampoline

- skateboarding

- surfing

- figure skating

- halfpipe

- slopestyle

- moguls

- aerials

- ski jumping style

 

Most of these, thankfully, have clear judging guidelines. Unlike breakdancing, which is just picking the 'cooler' routine. So I guess breakdancing will be the Olympic version of the Nobel prize.

[American1998 0]

1 hour ago, Monzanator said:

 

Equestrian doesn't rely on human factor alone. I'd say it's a more difficult event than any form of running.

 

That's interesting. I've never tried it before though.

 

[Grassmarket 4,156]

3 hours ago, American1998 said:

A friend and I were debating the objective difficulty of the Olympics. He said that winning a Nobel Prize was a lot harder than an Olympic gold medal, but can this even be measured?

 

There’s five Nobel Prizes, given out every year, and up to three winners so that’s 5x4x3 chances to win which equals......errrr,, ummm, well, not a very big number anyway.  High 50s, low 60s, say.  

 

OTOH 306 Summer Golds & 102 Winter, so obviously a lot easier to win the Olympics.

[NearPup 3,646]

How to win the Olympics in a few easy steps:

1. Be rich and become a citizen of, say, Dominica.

2. Create the Dominican Curling association.

3. Recruit a bunch of elite Canadian  players and pay for their citizenship.
4. Nominate yourself as the alternate on the Dominican Olympic curling team.

5. Don’t play (you don’t need to play a single end to be eligible for a medal).

6. Keep at it until Dominica finally wins gold.

7. Congrats?

[LDOG 2,472]

Less than 10 countries have more Nobel laureates than olympic gold medalists. So, obviously winning olympic gold is easier.