In honor of today’s start of the Olympics in Brazil.  

Perhaps number 18 should be “mosquito swatting”?!

Flashback to dinner table conversation, July 29, 2012. The family agreed that badminton and table tennis were too silly to be Olympic events.

And this is the most “sporty” and “Brazil-like” photo I could find. (It’s Florida.)  (And all of us did go kayaking.)

1. Paintball

2. Hopscotch

3. Competitive eating

4. Croquet

5. Hang-gliding

6. Poker

7. Dueling with wax bullets

8. Soapbox derby

9. Water-balloon toss

10. Three-legged race

11. Wheelbarrow race

12. Watermelon seed spitting

13. Bocce

14. Cornhole

15. Skeeball

16. Skateboarding

17. Four-square