There are a lot of creative ways to advocate for District voting rights. Of those, our friend Mike Panetta has been behind many. As you may recall, Panetta was one of the minds behind a recent online effort to allow District residents to ask Supreme Court justice nominee Samuel Alito questions, and, prior to that, to rename RFK “Taxation Without Representation Stadium.”

Now Panetta has hatched a new scheme to promote voting rights — having the District represented at the Olympic Games. Ridiculous as it may sound, precedent actually exists, explains Panetta:

That’s right. We’ve started the process of getting Olympic teams for the District of Columbia. We figure if other territories that have a single, non-voting delegate in Congress like Puerto Rico, Guam, and the U.S. Virgin Islands can have their own Olympic teams, why not DC? If we can’t have representation in Congress — then we should at least have representation in the Olympics.

Central to the plan is the creation of the District of Columbia Olympic Committee (DCOC) and the city’s first official team vying for a spot in the Olympics — in curling. Wrote Panetta about this interesting choice of sport:

The first team we put together is the curling team. We figured that it was the only sport that really fit our collective athletic ability, plus there’s usually beer at the end of the games. Plus, nobody really wanted to wear the tight outfits you need for luge. We’re pretty sure you didn’t want to see that either.

The DCOC’s website features a letter you can send to the International Olympic Committee asking that the District’s team be accepted for competition, and you can even offer up your own athletic skills for an official team.

If it ever became an Olympic sport, we’d kick some major ass in kickball.