Olympic & Niche Sports
Curling
Often called chess on ice — a sport where sweeping a broom in just the right spot can bend a 40-pound stone's path by inches.
Gymnastics
A sport that retired the idea of a "perfect 10" entirely, replacing it with open-ended scoring precisely because gymnasts kept getting too good for the old scale.
Fencing
A sport with three distinct weapons, each governed by its own separate rulebook for what actually counts as a hit.
Archery
A sport where a shot separated by mere millimeters from perfect can mean the difference between an Olympic medal and going home empty-handed.
Track and Field
Some track and field world records have stood since the 1980s, a reminder of just how narrow the margins get once human athletic performance approaches its outer limits.