So, who are these “Gold Medal Characters” from Game of Thrones you ask? Well, along with their respective events, here are the characters who I think would dominate the 2012 Olympics in London
With the death of Robert Baratheon, Westeros has fallen into a conflict the locales have coined as the War of the Five Kings and what modern historians would describe as a succession crisis.
Don Draper vs. Tyrion Lannister? Betty vs. Cersei? Jace Lacob imagines 10 tongue-in-cheek battles between the characters of AMC’s Mad Men and their Game of Thrones counterparts on HBO.
It's easy to think of King Robert as a fool, and Ned Stark as the wise counselor who tries to save the King from his own folly. But like most things in Game of Thrones, it's not quite that simple.