Future Olympic Sports?

On Thursday my creative sister published some suggestions relating to how to improve the Olympics and make sports more interesting (see link on the right- How to Open a Coconut).

Her suggestion focussed on combining existing sports thereby making them more challenging and entertaining.

These included:
• 100 m Fencing
• Synchronised Swim Boxing (two teams of synchronised swimmers would launch team members wearing boxing gloves at the other team to try to disturb their routine)
• Underwater Hurdles
• Synchronised Ski-jump Shooting
• Triple Javelin Jump
• Ice Tennis

I got inspired by this and came up with a few suggestions myself:
• Triple pole vault jump
• Canoe archery
• 400m high jump (instead of hurdles set the high jump bar at 2m)
• Basketball Tae Kwon Do (full contact basketball)
• Underwater wrestling (truly a test of strenght, stamina and holding your breath)
• Ski jump discus (throw the disc while in the air)

...and for the real challenge- synchronised Triathlon.

I did have a bit of a chuckle when I thought of how funny it would look to combine hockey and equestrian, only to realise that the English already invented Polo...