We all know that Olympians today take sports to the absolute extremes. But what about in the past? Before you needed to fly about 35 feet in the air to make the Olympic gymnastics team, there was the 1908 Olympics. And boy, were they a whole different horse. Here are the top 11 times that you probably could have made the Olympic team. Congratulations!
1) That high jump looks about 3 feet off the ground. You could probably jump over that.
2) This gymnastics team doesn't look very flexible. Okay, granted this is just a warm up exerecise, but you could probably put that dress on and do that.
3) Is this just a girl jumping off of a vault? Oh, you could totally do that.
4) You can kick your leg up that high. If you got a good enough running start, you could probably do that.
5) Wait a second, is this a one-person race? As in one person in the entire world? Where do you sign up for this event?
6) I'm assuming this is diving. Okay, you probably could do this, but I don't think that you should.
7) Are these guys just kind of leaning on each other? Yeah, you could do that if you could find enough friends to join you.
8) Do you get a medal for gingerly stepping over the hurdles? Sign me up for that event, you could totally do this one.
9) Check out this video of the 100m dash. This looks like a clip taken from a really crappy gym class. You could probably beat these guys if you had modern running shoes.
10) And the gymnastics? You could totally do this jump. Heck, you do this jump out of bed every morning.
11) And finally, check out thi- oh, whoops, just kidding, this one would kill you.
