{"id":33600,"date":"2021-08-28T12:09:00","date_gmt":"2021-08-28T16:09:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/philip.greenspun.com\/blog\/?p=33600"},"modified":"2021-08-15T14:09:35","modified_gmt":"2021-08-15T18:09:35","slug":"olympic-moving-sport","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/philip.greenspun.com\/blog\/2021\/08\/28\/olympic-moving-sport\/","title":{"rendered":"Olympic moving sport?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">After observing some guys pack our stuff into three containers on the last day of Tokyo 2020, an idea for future Olympics: See who can pack stuff, with a range of fragility, into boxes and furniture blankets, move items  into 16\u2019 container, and then pull everything back out the fastest. Containers get shaken in the middle and points are deducted for anything broken. 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