Laser Tag Now Officially An Olympic Sport, Type of [Olympics]

The fashionable pentathlon will switch to using laser pistols for the shooting portions of the event inside the 2012 Olympics. Super cool sci-fi twist, or major puss move?

Gone are the days of really using guns, and putting a visible hole in a bit of paper or cardboard duck cutout or whatever they did. (Actually, the firearm days are long past; before, they used air pistols.) They’ve tried it out at the sports’ world cup, and at the youth championships, and laser guns are in for London 2012.

Klaus Schormann, president of worldwide governing body the UIPM, said: ” We’ll have laser shooting for London. We will now hold competitions in parks and shopping malls.”

It’ll also cut costs by as much as two-thirds, because photons come cheaper than bullets.

We were ready to get our panties in a twist over the unconventional change, but then we remembered that modern pentathlon incorporates running, shooting, swimming, fencing, and riding horses over little hurdles. So who really gives a shit anyway.

Pentathlon switches to laser guns for London 2012 Games [BBC]

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