Along with the new additions of sport climbing, skateboarding, and surfing, editing a short video that you’re planning to post on TikTok or Reels has now been officially added as a qualifying sport at the 2024 Paris Olympics.
“We’ve been contemplating this since the 2020 games. This decision is long overdue,” International Olympic Committee member Caroline Dassani told reporters. “Everyone knows there is nothing more athletic than cropping, filtering, and editing captions for a single video — the sheer energy needed to complete these tasks is frankly unmatched across the board.”
Famous influencers as well as less popular users who post online videos semi-regularly have been united in pushing for this long-awaited decision of the sport for years.
“I’ve personally never done anything more difficult, exhausting, or tedious in my life,” Kay Feldman said while editing a new TikTok she’s been working on for three days now. “If this isn’t a sport, then I honestly don’t know what is. I mean, I’d like to see Olympic swimmer Katie Ledecky try to design and correctly time her own captions on CapCut for a one minute and thirty second TikTok.”
As for the content that the athletes will be editing at the 2024 Games, the International Olympic Committee came to the decision that they will each be piecing together a “Day in the Life of” video with more than four locations.
“But none of that ‘Get Ready With Me’ bullshit,” Dassani told reporters. “That’s for amateurs. It’s called ‘The Olympics’ for a reason.”
While many Millennial and Gen Z Olympic fans feel seen by the inclusion of the new social-media-based sport and are celebrating its new title, other fans who don’t often use Instagram or TikTok have been far less welcoming of the committee’s decision.
“How the hell is being on your phone all day a sport? I swear these young people just want a medal for everything,” 73-year-old former college football player Kevin “Spud” Jenson told reporters. “The Olympics just aren’t what they used to be. These games used to mean something!”
According to sources close to Kevin, despite his previous athleticism during the height of his football career, he recently gave up editing a short video of his trip to the zoo when he was only five minutes into it.
