I did not watch at all the Olympic Games in China. I am sure the ancient Greeks would be as disappointed as I am seeing what their invention has became. But, once again, I am an old grumpy old man.

But I did ask myself, what could it lead to, if someone somewhere decided to organize office Olympics ? Can it become something funnier than all theses athletes in tight-fitting bodysuit sweating like dogs to get a little gold medal that isn't worth half the money spent for their training ?

By chance, they were people that already had the same idea (thanks to my friend Google, they were easy to find), and I could discover what this tiny idea once materialized could become.

Red Bull, in Netherlands, launched last year its own office Olympics, where office clerks competed in funny disciplines. I don't speak a word of Dutch so if someone can translate, I would be thankful. All I understood is that there is a lot of funny videos of office sport sent by participants and that winners met for the final in Olympic Stadium in Amsterdam. It seemed great.

You can discover this peculiar event on the dedicated website. You would find people throwing folders, playing a kind of mouse curling, riding chairs, playing bowling with beer cans or playing soccer in office. And a lot more of crazy office sports. Quite amusing indeed. I would have loved to be employed by a company that has enough sense of humor to organize such a foolish competition.

But Redbull was not the only company to promote this idea. Some firm, in Fresno, named Provost & Pritchard did something similar.

I also found out the website www.officeolympics.net where some crazy guys practice wheelchairs destruction, wheelchairs races, wheelchairs jumping, well, a hell lot of things about wheelchairs. They seem to be looking for sponsoring companies to be able to pursue in their madness.

There is also a bunch of insane videos on Youtube about this idea of Office Olympics. But few are really noticeable. I only keep this one. Just because It gave me some hint about how far you can lead people to act in a ridiculous way.

Lots of blogs as well are dealing with "office olympics" posts, providing advice to set up your own games, like jobacle.com or Hellium. Even the guardian has something to tell us about this idea of "office olympics"

So, where am I going with all that ?

Sometimes, you can feel a lot better if you realize that you don't have time to materialize all the ideas you have and that it's much more fun to just watch others doing it.. and finding how they did manage to turn this idea into gold .. or into crap.