niche-lympics
/ˌnɪtʃˈlɪmpɪks/nounVerified NewThe sudden mainstreaming of obscure sports through virality.
One final, one meme, one athlete with a story, and a discipline with twelve practitioners becomes a national conversation for a fortnight, then vanishes back to the margins.
Etym. — *niche* + *-lympics* (the elastic Olympic suffix).
Rel. — screenathletics
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