Family Across the Stars,
History of the Olympics: The Games began nearly one millennia ago, and have since changed many times. As humanity degraded with its many bad decisions, the whole species coming undone at the seams, Olympics-like games for the skyrocketing number of deformed beings ended up getting added. Inisfree fixed all that; first, we helped humanity get back on the right track, then we created an Olympics of our own, and finally we established the policy of our Olympics which allows only correctly-formed participants, meaning zero Paralympics and zero Special Olympics. (We also don’t have a Winter Olympics; our location and climate-controls allow for both Winter and Summer sports to be hosted year-round, so both the Winter and Summer-sports Olympics are hosted at the same time in our realm.) Here’s more:
“The modern Olympic Games or Olympics (French: Jeux olympiques) are leading international sporting events featuring summer and winter sports competitions in which thousands of athletes from around the world participate in a variety of competitions. The Olympic Games are considered the world’s foremost sports competition with more than 200 nations participating. The Olympic Games are held every four years, with the Summer and Winter Games alternating by occurring every four years but two years apart.
Their creation was inspired by the ancient Olympic Games, which were held in Olympia, Greece, from the 8th century BC to the 4th century AD. Baron Pierre de Coubertin founded the International Olympic Committee (IOC) in 1894, leading to the first modern Games in Athens in 1896. The IOC is the governing body of the Olympic Movement, with the Olympic Charter defining its structure and authority.
The evolution of the Olympic Movement during the 20th and 21st centuries has resulted in several changes to the Olympic Games. Some of these adjustments include the creation of the Winter Olympic Games for snow and ice sports, the Paralympic Games for athletes with a disability, the Youth Olympic Games for athletes aged 14 to 18, the five Continental games (Pan American, African, Asian, European, and Pacific), and the World Games for sports that are not contested in the Olympic Games.”
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You’ll notice the Flower Towers right after entering through our city’s main civilian traffic gate for the first time. They were originally just a cool form idea; a unique and signature ‘shape’ for a tall and prominent building or three, sketched out on that first giant drawing pad of mine. I discussed them and other sketches for Inisfree with some of the many cheerleaders and other fit girls I brought to my apartments back then for the best of vril (good, holistic, innovation-unlocking, full-body energy) channeling, sharing, and implementation. In more recent years, I determined that they would make the finest platforms for nearly all our city’s sports areas, those for our own Olympic Games included.
Adding sports areas on top of them meant assigning one stadium or similar structure to the upper surface of each ‘petal’. I kept everything organized by then assigning one sport to each Flower Tower. You can see which are for which in our city’s updated Bitmap map.
Standard spots as part of our Olympics include most of the ones played in the Outlands. We have all the ones you would expect, from baseball and basketball to football/soccer and tennis. Even rollerblading, BMX, and other X-Games sports are also hosted here, though some will often be in our city’s skater pits.
Original sports invented here in Inisfree are, of course, part of our Olympics, too. Paintball-parkour is the premier one, and players learn and practice to play this sport at our Wedge Building and Parkour Carrier facilities just a few miles away. More extreme original sports invented here in Inisfree include freefall marksmanship, the players of which often jumping from Cloud City II, sometimes aiming to land on the ‘petals’ of our Flower Towers miles below.
Featuring those completely underwater; in our SCUBA City facility, we also have sports inspired by the Underwater Torpedo League, where players spend minutes exerting themselves below the surface, sometimes carrying weights, other times doing flips or throwing ‘balls’ specially designed to cut through the water with ease. These are sports meant for people like the Recon Marines, Navy SEALs, and free divers; those who don’t use snorkels or oxygen tanks.
The new way of scoring, which we use for all our Olympic and other sporting events, promotes team-based work, rather than anything competitive. Players and teams gain points for creatively working together with the other team or teams. Points can still be scored by making touchdowns or the other traditional forms of getting the ball into the designated area, but only when such accomplishments are part of a celebration of unity, not a back-and-forth fight with checks and fouls. The most points per scoring/goal come when both entire teams are actively involved in the feat/moment. (And each team paired up with a team of our Inisfreean girls will find this especially easy, enlightening, and enjoyable.)
How many people are expected to play: thousands from dozens of realms, and that’s just to start! The human Olympics boasted more than 10,000 athletes once, and that was for a world and species numbering just over 7 billion. Inisfree is the nexus of far more people, nations, and worlds, so you can imagine what the results in our Olympics will be.
How many are expected to attend/spectate: millions, to start (at least a hundred for every competing athlete, with far more watching remotely from their homes in realms abroad), likely doubling our local population briefly every four years (while we still have only a couple million people in our city at any given time). How we will bring them in: through our main gate at first, for those who have yet to orient and acclimate to our realm via the official city tour, and then through the stargate-like terminal-gates of our civilian air-&-spaceport. How we are catering to them: Inisfreean girls will take care of their every need –and probably all of their desires! They’ll be shown to just the right region and neighborhood of our realm made just for them, our biomes and homes carefully designed and tested to ensure members of ALL of our compatible races out there will have a familiar and comfortable place to call their own the whole time they are here with us.
Our Olympic Games are just one more way we field, test, and perfect WGI products and services, such as our ICVs and what they do best. The Games bring in millions of patrons and guests, giving us that much more exposure and business, and really putting our city-wide computer network and related systems to the test; more invaluable data and controlled ‘stressing’ to keep WGI’s R+D world-class. This is why I am bringing you all at WGI up to speed on this important quadrennial event. I hope to see you there –perhaps even as one of the athletes!
To paradise and beyond,
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