Well during this lockdown all real life sport competitions came to a halt! Some people are trying to find new hobbies but also Television channels are looking for something special. Something which makes people to turn on their channel in stead of others! And in Belgian a TV Channel came up with a relative brilliant idea!
A real sports competition during this lockdown! What about that!

The container cup!

The idea is as simple as brilliant! How do you organize a sports competition during a lockdown and with keeping an eye on all social distancing rules?
Well bring the battle arena to the athletes and set up a competition in a container!

So this is what they did!
They installed the following equipement in a container!

• A threadmill
• A indoor cycle
• A rowing simulator
• Some monkey bar
• a bench press
• A golf simulator
• A small shooting range

They did invite 32 pro athletes and 8 television starts to take part in the competition.

The competition

The container is driven to the house of the next competitor and is completely desinfected.
The athlete first has to run 1.5 Km, this is followed by the monkey bars. Next up is the rowing, where they have to row 1K.
Then they have to move to the shooting range. The small shooting range is biathlon like. So they do have 5 bullets to hit the 5 targets.
This is followed by the golf simulator where they have 3 attempts to hit the ball as far as possible with an iron 8.
There are almost done, but before starting with the last discipline (cycling) they may show their force with the benchpress. Also here they do have 3 attempts.
Finally they may cycle 3Km to the finish!

So how do they rank the participants.
The time of the cycling, running and rowing is added to each other. With the other discipline they can earn bonus seconds which are substracted from the total. For each monkey bar they do earn a second, for meters in golf are divided by 3 and this are the bonus second, the bench press kilos are divided by 2 and for each hit target on the shooting range they do get 10 bonus seconds.

The show

Each day they broadcast the performance of 2 athletes.
At the monent a cyclist is on first position with a time of 10:05.43 minutes.
It is interesting to see how the athletes excel in a discipline or make a fool of themselves in another discipline.
And to this 2 funny reporters and you do have a hit and maybe something which can live longer than the lockdown! The competitors are pro's and they do want to prove themselves against the others. They are really giving themselves for 110%. They are happy to have at least some kind of competition!

Cheers,
Peter