Originally published at: The forgotten art of competitive barrel jumping | Boing Boing
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“What’s this? Folks we got a new contender! A plucky little plumber named Mario! And here he goes! Whoopsee, he didn’t even clear one barrel. Though to be fair that giant ape really rolled it hard!”
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beat me to it
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And this content arrives now - even in a not-winter-olympics year! This jibes with my quadrennial rant on subjectively judged events…
I say, after ridding the clown show of most/all figure skating, the free ice time can be used for this. It used to be an Olympic event. People occasionally died and nobody really cared about how “spangly” the costumes are.
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I remember watching barrel jumping on Wide World of Sports in the 70s.
It’s not that long forgotten, here’s something from the 90s that ends with fire. The CBJF tried to get into the Olympics in the 90s.
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Most people of a certain age only know barrel jumping from this:
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That’s a very 1980 picture! Lovely!
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Yeah. 1980 called - it wants its haircut and skating dress back! 
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But it’s so back in now!
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Ow! My coccyx!
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