His Holiness, Jefferson Pérez   Olympians, Quick update today for a snap event! Index: Invite Just Finished  Invite: Canoeing/Kayaking: Canoe Freestyle Join us at 8am this morning at Pasture Canyon Reservoir in Tuba City for 2026's first in-person event on the rez! We'll be competing in the age old art of Canoe Dancing. Routines must be 287 seconds long +-2 seconds. Points will be awarded for smoothness, most spins, direction changes, false turtling, turtling, rolling, paddle whacking, fish caught, and song selection. Judges will be Zooming in for the live action from around the world and beyond. Here are the five: Our Olympics' athlete with the most appearances without a gold medal, Artski. High school champion freestyle canoeist, Jane Oski. Huge Our Olympics fan and underwriter, Snoop Dogg. Coming at your from the Tiangong Space Station (making Our Games reach beyond the globe), Zhang Hongzhang. And our fifth and final judge, Marc Ornstein. Here's a video primer  to g...

Holve nailing the "sit" element in the Beam competition.   Olympians, Happy 2026! The balance beam judging just wrapped up and we're looking forward to future events. Meanwhile, the Winter Olympics are happening in Italy and you know we're tuning in. Index: Just Finished: Gymnastics V What's Next?  Ongoing: Pickleball Tournaments  Just Finished: Gymnastics V: Beam 2025's annual remote event was selected by the athletes themselves and balance beam was the favorite! Competitors had to send in routines that included stepping, jumping, turning, sitting, and running, but the hardest part was finding a suitable beam. No one was able to get into an official gym for their routine, and all opted to be closer than the standard four feet to the ground. G. Sexauer, Cass and Ruchman did find a metal beam at a fitness trail station. K. Sexauer considered that option, but instead took to the wooden border of the wood chip area. Hu and Holve had a similar thought, using the w...

The aptly named "Team A"   Olympians, What thing chasing you would make you run faster? Ghouls, warlocks, vampires, rabid beasts, a skeleton?Find out 100m gold medalist Mitch Ross' answer in the winner's interview! Thankfully it wasn't a haboob-like storm such as the one that scared us off the track at our first attempt at this event back in September. Happy (belated) Halloween, everyone, and we hope to see you at the next event! Index: Invite: Gymnastics V: Balance Beam Just Finished: Athletics XVI Honorable Mention:  Tom Bennett Pole Vaults for General Patton Ongoing: Pickleball Tournaments  INVITE! Gymnastics V: Balance Beam By popular vote, our next remote event is Beam! From now until the end of the year, find yourself a balance beam and send in a video of your routine for our judges to score! Please be careful and if you aren't at a gym, make sure you have adequate padding around the beam and/or don't push your limits too hard. We don't want any ...

After a full evening of archery, the target wasn't much worse for the wear!   Olympians, Today's challenge: see if you can read this update faster than you can run the 100m. Index: Invite: Athletics XVI Just Finished: Archery III  INVITE! Athletics XVI: 100m II Join us for one of the shortest events you'll ever attend at the Tuba City High School track on September 25th at 6:30pm for a 100m dash! Event will be shortly followed by a trivia night at Sylvia's. Please RSVP to Gustave ahead of time. Just Finished:  Archery III: Teams of 2 Meet us at the shooting range is not a phrase I imagined myself saying, but there we were on a hot summer evening next to the Tuba City wastewater treatment plant, no less. Five teams of two vied to win the tournament, but more importantly, just to hit the target with an arrow. With the target set at 70' away since the cheap bow wouldn't shoot an Olympic distance of 70m, target practice began. Fletchings bounced joyfully away from t...

The "good book", which helped ignite the quest to compete in every Olympic event.   Olympians, What were you doing fifteen years ago? Graduating high school? College? Sucking on your thumb? Sitting on your thumbs? Were the goals you set then still the goals you strive for now? Our Olympics continues to shake off the cobwebs as we continue to challenge ourselves to try every event in the Olympics. As a big anniversary issue of the blog, hold out 'til near the bottom where you'll get a smattering of fond memories related by athletes who have competed since 2010. Index: Invite: Archery III Just Finished: Canoeing VI  Just Finished: Cycling VII Just Finished: Boules II Quincea ñ era Special Ongoing: Pickleball Tournaments  INVITE! Archery III: Team Recurve Unless you quiver at the thought of impaling a hay bale, join us for team archery (and a potluck) on July 17th at 6:30pm at the Fairgrounds parking area just east of Tuba City. We'll be dividing attendees into teams...