heywoodu 13,540 Posted December 17, 2016 #251 Share Posted December 17, 2016 (edited) 13 minutes ago, Jur said: There's sport where matching the program between men and women is natural, because the level is high. Adding the C1 Women's slalom just for equality is stupid, not only for the obvious lack of high level, but because the cut of the C2 men's event. And that's only one example. However, I would love to see the men's boxing cut to add more weigth's to the women. That's so universal I really feel like a joke only 3 woman category's.... The bigger joke is that every few kilograms have their own weight.. Just make a lightweight (-55kg), a middleweight (-80kg) and a heavyweight (everything above 80kg) Edited December 17, 2016 by heywoodu If you'd like to help our fellow Totallympics member Bruna Moura get to the 2026 Winter Olympics, after her car crash on the way to the 2022 Olympics, every tiny bit of help would be greatly appreciated! Full story and how to help can be found here! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hckošice 13,217 Posted December 17, 2016 #252 Share Posted December 17, 2016 17 minutes ago, Jur said: Adding the C1 Women's slalom just for equality is stupid, not only for the obvious lack of high level, but because the cut of the C2 men's event. And that's only one example This ! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
konig 1,298 Posted December 17, 2016 #253 Share Posted December 17, 2016 The gender ideology is destroying many things, including the Olympic Games Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Federer91 2,134 Posted December 17, 2016 #254 Share Posted December 17, 2016 1 hour ago, Jur said: However, I would love to see the men's boxing cut to add more weigth's to the women. That's so universal I really feel like a joke only 3 woman category's.... At last months womens european championships there were 10 categories like in the mens side. The lighter ones of course had great representation, because of the nature of women being smaller and lighter. But in the 4 heavy ones there were hardly enough boxers to fill the 1/4 and in one i remember there were exactly 5 boxers, so 3 of them got an european medal just for showing up... This brings again my earlier point for having events just for the sake of having them. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Federer91 2,134 Posted December 17, 2016 #255 Share Posted December 17, 2016 1 hour ago, heywoodu said: The bigger joke is that every few kilograms have their own weight.. Just make a lightweight (-55kg), a middleweight (-80kg) and a heavyweight (everything above 80kg) Another great point, the classes are too close. 10 categories in the mens side is too spread out. I wouldn't go that far, but 6-7 categories seem very good. Of course the loss of matches and etc. will cost AIBA big cash, so if course the rule will be more and not less. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dcro 10,179 Posted December 17, 2016 #256 Share Posted December 17, 2016 1 hour ago, heywoodu said: The bigger joke is that every few kilograms have their own weight.. Just make a lightweight (-55kg), a middleweight (-80kg) and a heavyweight (everything above 80kg) A bit extreme proposal. 60kg and 80kg in the same category. However, current system has -49, -52, -56, -60... One can easily be cut there... #banbestmen Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
heywoodu 13,540 Posted December 17, 2016 #257 Share Posted December 17, 2016 1 minute ago, dcro said: A bit extreme proposal. 60kg and 80kg in the same category. However, current system has -49, -52, -56, -60... One can easily be cut there... Well yeah, just 3 is a bit exaggarated But this is all so exaggarated as well... All those classes with 3-4kg between them..meh. ahjfcshfghb 1 If you'd like to help our fellow Totallympics member Bruna Moura get to the 2026 Winter Olympics, after her car crash on the way to the 2022 Olympics, every tiny bit of help would be greatly appreciated! Full story and how to help can be found here! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ahjfcshfghb 285 Posted December 17, 2016 #258 Share Posted December 17, 2016 (edited) I can see it now: In 2050 we will have the Mixed FIFA World Cup (all teams must have five men, five women, and one gender-diverse player). Edited December 17, 2016 by ahjfcshfghb heywoodu and konig 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dcro 10,179 Posted December 17, 2016 #259 Share Posted December 17, 2016 (edited) Don't forget about adding men's rhythmic gymnastics (individual and group) and men's synchronized swimming (duet and team). Gender equalty you know. Edited December 17, 2016 by dcro ahjfcshfghb, konig and Agger 3 #banbestmen Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
phelps 6,795 Posted December 18, 2016 #260 Share Posted December 18, 2016 10 hours ago, dcro said: Don't forget about adding men's rhythmic gymnastics (individual and group) and men's synchronized swimming (duet and team). Gender equalty you know. it's almost sure that Synchro Swimming Mixed Duet will be part of Tokyo 2020 program (and no, I'm not joking)... by the way, about boxing... I know that many of you would like to see the number of weight categories receiving a further cut, but it's technically very difficult, because it would create some health issues... don't forget that we're talking of a sport made mainly of hits to the head...and putting one against each other 2 people with too much fork in weight and power (and other physical features like height and reach, too) exposes them to very high risk (we already have too many "fatal accidents" on the rings throughout the world)... and when we consider athletes just 1.60/1.65m tall and 50/55/60kg heavy, even a small 4 or 5 kg difference is quite important in that way... on the other hand, if they make like they do with the girls (less weight classes with also a minimum weight officially set), it could lead to many cases of dangerous (and often illegal) practice to cut (or put on) too much weight in too short time many times a year to keep up with those weight windows for all the fighters not naturally included in the "new" Olimpic categories, creating other potentially very serious health problems... p.s. to fix the problem, the IOC should ban Boxing from the Games in full...and it would be a good decision, based also on the corruption issues that this sport has... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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