The 5 Weird Olympic Events You Never Hear About

Attention Olympics fans! Think you know all about the Games and its events? Well, consider this our official challenge to you.

We've collected five of the weirdest events that most people (and networks) never mention—plus, we've thrown in a fake event among them.

Think you can spot the fake event? It all depends on how well you know the Olympics' stranger offerings.

So strap on your goggles, gloves and gear and prepare to dive into the queerest of the queer—a gold medal to whoever picks out the fake sport among the real.

Some of those track and field events are waaay too fast for some Olympic athletes. That's why the Olympian Gods created racewalking. Unlike running, racewalking requires competitors to keep one foot on the ground at all times and racers often move with their arms pumping low and an exaggerated swivel in their hips to help them move forward. While tons of folks ridicule the event, the racewalkers can move as quickly as an eight-minute mile—much quicker than many people can jog.

Take everything you like about the women's gymnastics floor exercises then throw in three other teammates, bouncing ball, juggling clubs and twirling ribbon—and then you'll have rhythmic gymnastics. Even though it's more theatric than regular gymnastics, it rarely gets wide coverage in the states (probably because the performances tend to be weird, over-operatic and won widely by east European countries).

The ancient pentathlon in the Greek Olympics consisted of long jump, javelin throw, discus throw, a short foot race and wrestling (all done while presumably naked). Games officials of the day considered them to be the skills of a warrior. But the modern warrior's skills are different, hence the modern pentathlong. The modern event consists of running, swimming, shooting, horse jumping and fencing... all things that the average English aristocrat might need to survive a season of Downton Abbey.

What ping pong is to tennis, foosball is to soccer.

Players drop a ball into the side of a table and then use ten figures mounted on rotating bars to kick the ball into the opposing goal.

Like table tennis, singles and doubles can compete. Winning requires quick reflexes, reactionary hand-eye coordination and enough arm strength to whip the ball into your opponent's goal at up to 35 miles per hour.

Imagine a 3000 meter obstacle course where the competitors have to climb over tall, wide barriers and run through water pits—that's steeplechase. Part of the modern heptathlon, the steeplechase is like a much more arduous form of hurdles: the barriers can't always be jumped over, each racer isn't confined to a single lane and the water pits make for splashing and slips all along the track. On second thought, the event is actually a lot more like the final round of the messy Nickelodeon game show Double Dare.

Trampoline is kinda the ADHD cousin of the gymnastics competition. It's kinda like the uneven bars without the bars, the floor exercise with a very bouncy floor or high platform diving with much more clothes on. While trampoline doesn't require quite the same body strength as the rings or the pommel horse, it does require balance and acrobatic grace—something every gymnastic team could stand to incorporate into their own routines.