History Main / Pseudolympics

Since it includes all parodies of the Olympics it's typically PlayedForLaughs, but it can also be used to help build a fantastic setting. For example, a ScienceFiction story could have a zero-G relay race at the UsefulNotes/OlympicGames [[AC:InSpace]]

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** Actually '''''subverted''''' by [=FIDE=] (Fédération internationale des échecs, World Chess Federation) which ''declined'' an invitation from the [=IOC=] to become an Olympic sport, because Chess itself has its own olympics every '''two''' years, and accepting the [=IOC=] invitation would get the number of Olympic level tournaments halved.

* An early ''ComicBook/JudgeDredd'' strip takes place during the first Lunar Olympics. Athletes are allowed to compete with bionic implants, provided that no less than 80% of their bodies is made of human tissue. Because of the moon's lower gravity, Earth records in events like the pole vault and the shot put are broken like crazy. There are also a few "Moon Sports" introduced, notably one best described as "snowboarding tricks [[XMeetsY meets]] the ski jump"; overshooting ones run and missing the safety net leads to some very bloody, deadly results.

* An {{NES}} era game called ''Caveman Games'', based off of the UsefulNotes/{{Commodore 64}} and UsefulNotes/IBMPersonalComputer game ''Ugh-lympics'' featured a series of different events like pole vaulting over a T-rex, building a fire, clubbing your opponent into submission, and outrunning your opponent so you don't get eaten by a saber tooth tiger.

* ''Series/TheGoodies'' epsisode "A Kick in the Arts'' had Tim converting the Olympics from sports alone to a combination of sports and arts, leading to such events as the 'Snatch and Limerick' (combining poetry and weightlifting).

** SNL[=/=]TheLonelyIsland's Digital Short "Space Olympics" is a song about the Olympics RecycledInSpace, except it's really about the logistical problems therein.

* LoadingReadyRun has [[http://loadingreadyrun.com/videos/view/206/Slacking-for-Gold Slacking For Gold]] and [[http://www.escapistmagazine.com/videos/view/loadingreadyrun/1460-Olympic-Beard-Growing Olympic Beard Growing]].

* The Creator/HarryTurtledove short story "Les Mortes d'Arthur" features the sixty-sixth Winter Olympics of the twenty-third century, held on Mimas and featuring several futuristic versions of recognised sports. Also an excellent example of TheGreatPoliticsMessUp: written in the late 1980s, it has a fragmented USSR with a Tsarist Siberia and a Communist Moscow, said [[HilariousInHindsight to be the only communist nation left in the world after even China has abandoned it]].

* The world of ''WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic'' has the Equestria Games, which were the cast was shown preparing for and which will probably be featured in season four. It's been shown that cities vie for the honor of hosting them.

* One Strong Bad Email from ''WebAnimation/HomestarRunner'' was actually about [[http://www.homestarrunner.com/sbemail165.html the "Strong Badathalon"]], with events such as "Greco-Roman Homestar Crud-Out-Of-Beating", the "Clean and Jerk Strong Mad's Underwears Over His Head" ("fortunately, you don't really have to clean them") and [[BlatantLies "Probably Something with Guitars, Lasers, Robots, and Hot Girls"]].

When it comes to the wide world of [[SportsStoryTropes sports]], no place is so lofty -- no athlete so honored -- than at the OlympicGames. So how the heck did these competitions get to be part of the Olympics?

Since it includes all parodies of the Olympics it's typically PlayedForLaughs, but it can also be used to help build a fantastic setting. For example, a ScienceFiction story could have a zero-G relay race at the OlympicGames [[AC:InSpace]]

* The modern OlympicGames had [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Art_competitions_at_the_Olympic_Games art competitions]] in its early days. The categories were architecture, literature, music, painting, and sculpture. Oh, and the artworks had to have to do with sports thematically.

* ''Series/ThirtyRock'' has Olympic Tetherball, amongst others. It turns out that the US made up a lot of Olympic events so they could pretend to win them and help national morale.

* The HarryTurtledove short story "Les Mortes d'Arthur" features the sixty-sixth Winter Olympics of the twenty-third century, held on Mimas and featuring several futuristic versions of recognised sports. Also an excellent example of TheGreatPoliticsMessUp: written in the late 1980s, it has a fragmented USSR with a Tsarist Siberia and a Communist Moscow, said [[HilariousInHindsight to be the only communist nation left in the world after even China has abandoned it]].

* An {{NES}} era game called ''Caveman Games'', based off of the {{C64}} and {{IBM PC}} game ''Ugh-lympics'' featured a series of different events like pole vaulting over a T-rex, building a fire, clubbing your opponent into submission, and outrunning your opponent so you don't get eaten by a saber tooth tiger.

* Similar to the ''SaturdayNightLive'' example above, the novel version of ''RedDwarf'' had a version of the Olympics where drugs were legal and later a separate version for Genetically Engineered Life Forms ([=GELFs=]) who were specifically engineered to excel at a particular sport.

* ''Series/MontyPythonsFlyingCircus'' had the finals of the Olympic Hide-And-Seek. A special airing in Austria had the Silly Olympics which included events such as the cross-country race for incontinent people and the 50-meter dash for people with no sense of direction.

* ''WesternAnimation/ScoobyDoo's {{Laff-a-Lympics}}'' ran on this trope. Every competition was some strange game.

* ''Numen Olympics'', olympic events by genetically enhanced superior people One event was seeing how many times you could jump off walls between apartment buildings to reach the top, or sprinting faster than 60 miles per hour.

* An early ''JudgeDredd'' strip takes place during the first Lunar Olympics. Athletes are allowed to compete with bionic implants, provided that no less than 80% of their bodies is made of human tissue. Because of the moon's lower gravity, Earth records in events like the pole vault and the shot put are broken like crazy. There are also a few "Moon Sports" introduced, notably one best described as "snowboarding tricks [[XMeetsY meets]] the ski jump"; overshooting ones run and missing the safety net leads to some very bloody, deadly results.

* A "Weekend Update" segment on ''SaturdayNightLive'' once reported on the first All-Drug Olympics that allows (and even ''encourages'') athletes "to take any substance whatsoever before, after, or even ''during'' the competition." By the time Weekend Update begins its coverage, 115 world records had already been "shattered".

* An NES era game called ''Caveman Games'', based off of the C64 and IBM PC game ''Ugh-lympics'' featured a series of different events like pole vaulting over a T-rex, building a fire, clubbing your opponent into submission, and outrunning your opponent so you don't get eaten by a saber tooth tiger.