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4 hours ago, Josh said:

Summer Olympics, hell yeah I’m all for it! :d

 

Winter Olympics, absolutely not. :facepalm::hairpull::bones:
 

Cross-country running events are held in the winter, but that doesn’t make it a winter sport, sorry. There is one caveat though if it were to, let’s say get added to to the Olympic program hypothetically, because it would weaken the strength of distance fields drastically due to scheduling. 

 

Edit: None of this is directed at you, just the idiots (like Coe) that think this (putting a summer sport in the winter Olympics, not cross country running at the Olympics) is a good idea…

Hi, idiot here, cross country running and cyclo cross should ABSOLUTELY be in the winter games but the same 20 odd countries are afraid of opening up their games to outsiders 

 

They have their rule about games being needed to be played on snow and ice but IMO that’s a far more ridiculous idea than allowing cross country running in. 
 

 

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The  government says YES to WOG 2030 in Sweden. 

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IOC report: https://stillmed.olympics.com/media/Documents/International-Olympic-Committee/Commissions/Future-host-commission/Olympic-Winter-Games/Commission-Report-2030.pdf   Hockey would be

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is out due to the provincial government not supporting it. Too bad, I thought we could have had a good chance.   https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/2030-olympics-bc-government-w

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Cross country running does not add anything to the Games, it'd be a repeat of the 10k. With basically the same athletes having a shot every 2 years instead of 4. Then they should add short course swimming as well.

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1 hour ago, dodge said:

Hi, idiot here, cross country running and cyclo cross should ABSOLUTELY be in the winter games but the same 20 odd countries are afraid of opening up their games to outsiders 

 

They have their rule about games being needed to be played on snow and ice but IMO that’s a far more ridiculous idea than allowing cross country running in. 
 

 

Yea no. It's not a winter sport. It should not be held on the WOG. If WA wants it so badly, they can drop the steeplechase and add this.

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2 hours ago, dodge said:

Hi, idiot here, cross country running and cyclo cross should ABSOLUTELY be in the winter games but the same 20 odd countries are afraid of opening up their games to outsiders
 

 

I second this.

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1 hour ago, intoronto said:

Yea no. It's not a winter sport. It should not be held on the WOG. If WA wants it so badly, they can drop the steeplechase and add this.

The last world curling championship was held in April. The last mixed championship was held in October 

 

But they’re “winter” sports 

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I think this came up before, but for me, any sport should only be in the winter olympics if it doesn’t have summer alternative with the same skillset. Realistically you don’t want any athletes doubling up between winter and summer.

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