'Lube Olympics' makes slippery bid to rival Tokyo 2020

[yuiyoshida]

TOKYO —

As a row over Tokyo’s Olympic stadium threatens to overshadow the city’s Games preparations, the “Lube Olympics” is looking to offer a slippery alternative for daredevil athletes in 2020.

Now in its third year, the oddball event sees contestants in crash helmets and lathered in lubricated jelly on a slimy floor battle it out in sports such as sumo, tug of war and human curling—with largely chaotic results.

“In Spain you have the tomato fighting and in Thailand there’s the water throwing festival: we wanted to come up with something unique,” Lotion Sports Association commissioner Iku Koshikizawa told AFP on Saturday.

“We took the typical Japanese sports festival, threw in some medical gel and bingo!”

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[Gidney N Cloyd]

1. Thank goodness they're wearing helmets.

A blow to the head could be dangerous.

[JustABozoOnThisBus]

2. Is "twister" an olympic sport now? nt