i'm watching A Knight's Tale on BBC America right now, and it got me thinking: what if jousting persisted as a sport through to the present day (rather than something that's re-enacted at Renaissance fairs) and remained popular worldwide, perhaps with there even being an Olympic version? while it was at first relegated to nobility, i imagine by the modern 19th or early 20th centuries it would be more inclusive. and what do you all suppose would be some of the general rules for modern competitive jousting? would there eventually be jousting teams whereby a replacement comes in in the event that a jouster is injured during a competition and the jousters themselves are rotated much like baseball players? i imagine, in general, that jousting would be more comparable (VERY loosely comparable) to wrestling rather than a team sport, though