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Move Busted

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  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 the
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Endorsements on High

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  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
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Going It Alone

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  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
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Breaking News: 2024 Events Being Planned

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  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
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A Bit of a Pickle

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  Matt and Renee fear no opponent; bravely take on Lori and Scott Olympians, We're in the dog days of summer, or monsoon season here in Arizona, but heat be darned, the sporting action is on the upswing. After a few quiet months, long term tournament S! are getting underway and we have another new tournament on the horizon. Most importantly, anyone can still sign up for the pickleball tournaments if they'd like . It doesn't matter where you live! Table of Contents: 1. Ongoing report on Pickleball Singles 2. Invitation / Ongoing report to Pickleball Doubles 3. Invitation to Badminton Doubles 4. Call for Sporting Stories Ongoing - Pickleball II: Singles O ur original long term tournament got going in July at Trane Park in La Crosse under cloudy skies and fair temperatures before the crucible of competition turned it into a clear and sweltering day. Lori Nigon, Artski and Jennifer Sexauer, Ryan Sneath, and even Commissioner Gustave Sexauer were in attendance. Also, Je
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Passing the Bar

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  Maggie Bennett passes the bar...s Olympians, As is our M.O. when friends, a venue, and a equipment converge in the Venn Diagram of sport, we stage an event. Just that happened this last weekend at Santa Monica's Muscle Beach. Read on for what we got up to, plus updates on the long term Pickleball event. Just finished: Gymnastics IV I t was the domain for bulging biceps and triceps last weekend in Santa Monica. Happening upon Santa Monica's Muscle Beach, our four gymnasts seized the day, checking off three events from the current slate of men's gymnastics events in the Olympics. (That's true, the women and men compete in mostly different apparatus events in the Olympics, and women don't even have the same number of event opportunities as the men.) Rings First up, the four took to the air on the rings. It was a chore getting boosted up to a high starting position. G. Sexauer started off with an almost L-sit. Bennett managed some swinging, and K. Sexauer wrapped up t
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Pushing our Limits

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What's to come. (Photo provided by PKL) Sports: the final frontier. These are the endeavors of Our Olympic Games. Its five-year mission: to explore strange new events. To seek out new life and new activities. To boldly do what no one has done before! Our long term mission: Pickleball I: Singles O ne of the fastest growing sports continues to take Earth by storm. When will it be added to the Olympics? LA '28? Somewhere '32? We don't know, but it seems to be inevitable. It's called pickleball , and it's not just for old people. In fact, alums from Harry Spence Elementary may remember learning it from Mr. Holman. Starting in 2023, and with a goal to finish by the time it gets added to the Olympic Games, we will be having our most ambitious and lengthy tournament style event, yet! Read on for the Devil (it's in the details) Anyone anywhere can sign up to join in the pickleball tournament. Athletes will be sorted into nearby clusters to play matches in a round-
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