6′3″ Or Taller? Great Britain Wants YOU!

About 34 rowers, 11 handball players and seven volleyball players will be representing the United Kingdom in the 2012 Olympics just for being tall. That’s right. No years of dedication, steroid abuse or sleeping on your mom’s couch until the age of 32 necessary, just the ability to see over crowds at a Will Leitch book signing.

“There are so many people out there who don’t know how good they could be at sports they’ve probably not even thought about,” U.K. Sport talent identification manager Chelsea Warr said Thursday. “This was a mild shake of the tree. We looked under a few rocks and look what we found.”

You know this tryout is legit when they’ve already endured a cheating scandal. Six people lied about their height on the application form, but were tested anyway and are now on the Olympic rowing team.

Somewhere, our guy Gheorghe weeps softly for this abuse of the vertically endowed.