August 21st, 2008 by Josh King, VP of Business Development and General Counsel

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Continuing on the theme of the many things (besides lawyers) that can be rated comes the “Real Man’s Olympics” a rating of the “true” medal count weighted by the manliness of each event. As the site notes:

“The medal for prancing around a floor mat is not equal to the medal for super heavyweight boxing.”

Amen, brother. And that’s why synchronized diving gets negative 5 points in the manliness count.

Say what you will about the inherent sexism in a project like this, there is a certain truth to the idea amid the coronation of Michael Phelps as the “greatest Olympian ever” that it’s not really fair to compare the dozens of medals offered in the swimming events to the single medal awarded for decathlon. Again from the site, in reference to swimming:

“Why do we care what stroke they use? All that matters is who’s fastest, right? We don’t have footraces where you have to do a jumping jack between each step, or do pirouettes or anything. That would be stupid.”

Amen, again. You can adjust the weighting of the scores if you disagree with their assessments (and they ARE too hard on soccer), and keep track as the games progress.

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