Nepal's Duana Lama: the envy of Our Olympic swimmers Olympians,   Welcome to 2025! We're aiming for an event per month this year. Some in person, some remote! Index: Just Finished: Swimming Invite: Freestyle Skiing I: Big Air Update: Pickleball Just Finished:  Swimming III: 200yd Freestyle T  en swimmers handed in times for our first ever remote swimming event. All eyes were on the prize, to beat Nepal's Duana Lama who set the slowest time (2:20) in the 200m freestyle at the Paris Olympics. Being that we were swimming only 200 yards in a half length pool which allows over twice as many wall push-offs, we had the advantages stacked in our favor like we were in Shaq Vs . We even had former swim team members in Farrell, G. Nigon, and Richards. So how did we fare? Well, Our new friends south of the Equator couldn't find a 25 yard pool, so they did it the hard way and swam in a 50m lap pool, with reasonably longer times. In Arizona, Farrell put in the first time, but was soo...

  Freezin' the Breeze Olympians,   It's been a while since our last update, so here comes a big one! Index: Coming Up Just Finished: Breaking Just Finished: Cycling Honorable Mention Coming up: Tuba City Games! T his October we will inaugurate Our Games in Tuba City with an in person athletics event in Tuba: the 100m dash! Join us at 6pm on October 16th at the Tuba City High School Track (access via the gate at the corner of Edgewater Dr and Hilltop St. If attendance allows, we will also run the 4x100m relay! Coming up: Cross-country Skiing III:  50k (55km) Classical Mass Start C are to join us in the most famous ski race in the USA? Sign up for the American Birkebeiner and race with us in the 55km commemoration of a 1206 smuggling of an illegitimate prince! Also, mark your calendar for xc ski races at Flagstaff's Nordic Village Just Finished: Breaking: Individual N ew to the Olympic Games this year was Breaking, AKA Breakdancing. Since January, Our Olympics took up th...

  Soon Bite-able Olympians, Our events are continuing virtually and in person, with Breaking underway, and the Boze Bump Bash serving as our first Freestyle Skiing event this Saturday, April 6th. But that's not the biggest news. I'm excited to share that over the past few months I've been working behind the scenes to elevate Our Olympics to the next level: Back in the sculpture competition we focused on designing medals that would be handed out to winners of Our Games. I then produced three in the winning design, a dahlia by Jennifer Sexauer, out of modeling clay. Until now, we've only had one medal of each color to share. But forget colors, working through the back channels of La Crosse's underground trade network, we have forged an agreement to work with Rock "The King of Scrap" Johnson who has a pulse on all of the waste metal in a tri-county area. He'll be extracting the bronze from sculptures sourced from dumpsters in Waterford Valley, melting dow...

  1st Place, unopposed Olympians, I recently signed up for a Nordic ski race and wasn't able to rouse any of Our friends to make the drive to compete in Flagstaff, but was determined to enter the race solo. As I went to retrieve my registration packet I announced that I was in the 10km classic race and got the reply, "You must be Gustave! You're the only one in that division." Racing at Nordic Village got me thinking about the future of Our Olympics, and the struggle it is for anyone, myself included, to agree to try something new or to even have the free time to do it. Our Games have periodically struggled with attendance, but after joining a race organized by an outside organization and finding myself alone in my division, it's clear that Our Olympics is no worse off than larger and more established sporting groups. We will continue in the quest to see our athletes compete in every Olympic event, because any periods of struggle are worth pushing through for tho...

  J. Sexauer returns a volley from R. Sneath in Pickleball II last summer Olympians, As we near year's end, we are scheming for 2024! We've had to use the pink end of the Dixon Ticonderoga on a few scheduled events this fall, but we are sharpening our pencils and drawing up some ideas for the coming year! Read more and daydream below: Table of Contents: 1. Coming Up - A Look at New Events for the Olympics and Our Olympics alike 2. Honorable Mentions - Biathlon 3. What's next? Ideas for 2024 4. Ongoing - Pickleball Singles Coming Up - Paris 2024! I t's going to be another Olympic year, with the IOC taking the Olympic Games to Paris. Starting with the Tokyo Games, it has been a behind-the-scenes goal of Our Olympics to hold competitions for the new sports and events in the same year they debut in the Olympics. Think back to several of Our events from 2021: Skateboarding , Surfing , and who could forget Karate ? Let's take a closer look at what's new for Paris: New...