This Needs to Become an Olympic Sport

by Joey deVilla on February 21, 2008

The activity depicted in the Chinese propaganda poster shown below needs to be turned into a new Summer Olympics sport:

Chinese propganda poster showing rifle shooters double-riding on a bike, aiming at targets in the distance.
I wouldn’t be surprised if the red text at the bottom translates to “Wolverines!”
Photo courtesy of Miss Fipi Lele.

{ 5 comments… read them below or add one }

1 darryl February 21, 2008 at 12:14 pm

Looks an awful lot like skeet surfing: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v-jqEj1Hvnc

2 Adam Goucher February 21, 2008 at 2:26 pm

Wow, you’re dating yourself with the Wolverines reference.

(or am I by getting it?)

-adam

3 Milan Davidovic February 21, 2008 at 2:38 pm

Spoiler alert…

My source on such things says that the caption reads “The Early Sun Shines on the Practice Field!”

4 Anonymous February 22, 2008 at 2:12 am

Your source isn’t that far off — it’s best translated as “drill field” instead of practice field. It’s a slogan from either the Cultural Revolution or civil war.

5 Martey February 29, 2008 at 3:40 am

Two man bikeathlon?

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