Since many of you (at least those of you who have cable -- NBC's monopoly -- or living outside of the USA) are watching the Olympics, you might want to give yourself an extra excuse for procrastinating on your latest story. You're coming up with a new plot bunny for your next LnC Story!

Lois and Clark can leave Metropolis and cover the Olympics as the writing team Lane and Kent from the DP in another country, or the Olympics can come to Metropolis. On the other hand, maybe Lois and Clark MEET while covering some event at the Olympics.

What kind of crime do they uncover? Is it murder? Is it drugs? Is it score manipulation? Or is it more underhanded than that? What if RAFS happened during the Olympics? Or does Lois see crime where none exists, just trying to make things more interesting, and Clark has to keep pointing this out to her?

I can picture a whole series of stories, covering both Winter and Summer Olympics. It would be fun to see Lois and Clark out of their normal element.

I can't see Lois willingly covering sports, but if the housing conditions were as bad as they are in Sochi, I can see her being ALL over that!

Not to mention the yellow water.

That too!

Though I can see Lois almost falling down one of the open elevator shafts and requiring some Super help!

My assumptions were that Lois didn't CHOOSE this assignment, it was given to her because either she had to fill in or... hee-hee, Clark thought it might be fun and volunteered them, thinking she'd approve.

If they were already partners, sure, I could see Clark doing that. But if we make it into a "Lois and Clark meet for the first time while working for different papers" sort of fic...

It would work if the Olympics were in Metropolis and Clark was covering it for another paper, and Perry was forcing EVERYONE on the staff to do their fair share of Olympic reporting. Although, I could see Lois try to stand up for the little guy, non-Olympics stories out there. Perry would nod his head and send her out to the Lex Luthor Stadium anyway.

Wait...boxing is one of the sports, is it not? (I hate sports and know next to nothing about the Olympics, other than they are invading the broadcast stations.) So maybe it IS being held somewhere else, but one of Sam Lane's/Menkin's Gym fighters is a part of it. Perry sends Lois over to use her connection to get exclusive interviews. She meets Clark Kent, reporter for the Rome Gazette or something.

Works for me.

Another thought for a completely AU story...

What if Clark was one of the athletes Lois had to interview? (Of course, it could be his last competition before retiring to follow his other passion - journalism.)

Interesting thread! Your last thought, DC, sounds really intriguing ....love a good AU story!

Laura

Well, that doesn't seem all that ethical. I can't see Clark doing that. What if Lois entered in the Judo category (summer Olympics) and Clark interviewed her?

Unless, of course, that Clark only entered the competition to go undercover to unearth a doping (or cyborg) scandal and never would allow himself to place in the top three. It's possible that Clark is already a reporter when he becomes an Olympian.

True, but he was a school athlete. (I presume he went to college on a football scholarship.) If he was a downhill skier or something and didn't use his powers, I don't see too much of an issue.

Here is a semi-comprehensive glossary of Sochi problems.

I could see a pair of investigative reporters finding plenty of corruption to report upon here. I could also see Clark breaking through the door like one athlete did. And there would be plenty of opportunities for Lois to need a super rescue.

Since Clark was a High School AND College athlete its safe to assume he could be an Olympian as long as he did not use his powers to his advantage.

Especially if this was going to be his last competition before becoming a journalist.

I stumbled upon this thread and decided to add my two cents.

Since season one was airing during the 1994 winter Olympics, (and the Nancy/Tonya debacle) what if LnC were covering the games because of the "Wack heard around the world".

My favorite line from the glossary:


Think of me what you will - I was one of the many who did not follow the 2021 Olympic games.

Terry, I’m with you. My only interest in the Olympics was as a possible superspreader event.

This, exactly.