Allow me to introduce you to 80s legend Eddie the Eagle.

Check out average rob on YouTube. He's a Belgian dude who has done a ton of different sports as a "average" guy. He started the whole thing already pretty muscular and has gotten way more in shape over the course of what he's done. But he also has his brother do everything with him and he is very not in shape. They're some funny guys as well, great videos IMO.

They do skeleton here, the most insane form of going down a tube of ice(at the place where that one guy doing skeleton died a while back IIRC): https://youtu.be/WjkRHgY0yZg

Not the Olympics, but for the difference between regular people and top tier athletes. If you're not familiar with "the Scallenge":

However, one player who developed a reputation for being among the worst in the NBA was Brian Scalabrine. He was criticised for being a bench warmer and averaged just 3.1 points per game during his time in the league.

And in 2013, after continued criticism for his bench role, he famously responded: "I'm closer to LeBron than you are to me."

He plays (and destroys) non-pro players. It's not like regular dudes off the street. He's playing people who were trying out for the NBA, and they were the top of their own local league.

NBA’s ‘Worst Ever Player’ Took On Three Amateurs in Never-Before-Seen Challenge

https://www.sportbible.com/nba/worst-ever-player-amateurs-never-seen-challenge-basketball-785818-20251128

a regular person but also like a really enthusiastic hobbyist

They had Collin Jost do the bobsled with a skilled athlete doing the driving. That was pretty damn entertaining.

https://youtu.be/cQPUfKmhj-E

For the 2018 olympics they did a series where they had athletes swap sports. Some of them had a closer connection (like figure skating and ice hockey) and others just seemed more random.

Then another channel later did some more in-depth vids on the same concept, with even some of the same overlap, like hockey and figure skating

Yeah, let an untrained person do that long jump thing where they spit in the face of gravity.

Be the change you want to see in the world.
Just go for a run and see how you compare.

Here is Shelly-Anne Fraser-Pryce (multiple Olympic medals as well as world championships in sprinting) running in a school parent's race vs. other moms.

i wouldn't have touched the curling stone

This woman is doing it:

https://m.youtube.com/shorts/sWLFje3YNlw

I'd say Elizabeth Swaney is as close as you'll come for winter Olympics

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elizabeth_Swaney

It may work ok for curling, figure skating, or cross country, but you get into anything involving a slope and it starts to get really dangerous if you don’t know what you’re doing. Think moguls, big air, or ski jumping.

And that person should be Jack Black.

How to dad vs Kiwi Olympians and sports stars.

The drone footage has really helped with that, and I saw at least one run from a GoPro perspective that also helped with perspective.

It kinda makes sense until you start thinking about it case by case. Who wants to watch an untrained non-athlete do figure skating? A lousy javelin thrower could kill someone.

I forget which comedian it was, might have been Jerry Seinfeld, but he was talking about the luge, how it's almost not a sport. "He's pointing his toes, what an athlete." Then he got into the involuntary luge. "No! Let me go! I don't wanna do the luge."

There was also Eddie The Eagle, the not quite a ski jumper who was the first to represent Britain in the sport in Calgary in '88.

They kind of did that for the breakdancing event at the last Summer Olympics. It did not go well.

Ski jump...

I mean, some would risk dying in the attempt. So, maybe not "regular" exactly.