National Games

[Mercury12 (AR)]

Every 2-4 years, we get together as a nation to root for Team USA in either the Winter or Summer Olympic Games (with the next Games being in Milan and Los Angeles). However, some countries like China try to game medals (if you see their gold medal count, it’s staggered towards events like diving, shooting, weightlifting, boxing, etc.). I propose we should have an Olympic style games where individual states are featured instead of countries. In this proposal, we’ll have as many sports as possible (basically no limit) and have events where people would watch (like LeBron vs KD one on one in basketball; LeBron could represent Ohio and KD could represent Maryland). This would theoretically increase sports funding and visibility and encourage training (which would be a net benefit to Americans and our obesity rate). We can separate events into occurring on odd numbered years subdivided into Summer, Winter, team, and individual (ex. Individual Winter Games, Team Summer Games). I also think it’s to care about our athletes and give or help give them (public or private) training, resources, and funding if necessary. This would also theoretically increase our medal count where China no longer threatens us.