phelps 7,434 Posted October 13, 2023 #511 Share Posted October 13, 2023 definitely it's not the Olympics I used to love anymore...I'm so disappointed and frustrated... JamDH, Makedonas, iran2016 and 1 other 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Federer91 2,273 Posted October 13, 2023 #512 Share Posted October 13, 2023 Imagine that a decade ago, i thought Bach would be an improvement in IOC leadership. Oh how, how wrong i was... Note to my current and future self - Every changes that are going to happen from now on are going to be worse and worse. phelps 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Federer91 2,273 Posted October 13, 2023 #513 Share Posted October 13, 2023 2 hours ago, mrv86 said: It’s not MP it’s American Ninja Warrior now. This is some joke right? Is this going to be only a LA thing, or is Pentathlon changing completely it's premise? Like is their World Cup gonna have Ninja courses from now on.. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NearPup 2,378 Posted October 13, 2023 Author #514 Share Posted October 13, 2023 (edited) 4 minutes ago, Federer91 said: This is some joke right? Is this going to be only a LA thing, or is Pentathlon changing completely it's premise? Like is their World Cup gonna have Ninja courses from now on.. Modern Pentathlon is completly getting rid of show jumping for all International competitions. Because of the horse punching scandal thing (at least that's the stated reason, I think the image of the Modern Pentathlon show jumping event being a lottery both because of the horses but also because the athletes are really bad riders was getting to be too much of a PR issue) Edited October 13, 2023 by NearPup Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
phelps 7,434 Posted October 13, 2023 #515 Share Posted October 13, 2023 5 minutes ago, Federer91 said: This is some joke right? Is this going to be only a LA thing, or is Pentathlon changing completely it's premise? Like is their World Cup gonna have Ninja courses from now on.. unfortunately, no after Paris, the Ninja Warrior-alike course will replace the riding stint for the ages Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JamDH 22 Posted October 13, 2023 #516 Share Posted October 13, 2023 #UnderwaterTiddlyWinks2032 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mpjmcevoy 270 Posted October 13, 2023 #517 Share Posted October 13, 2023 (edited) 7 hours ago, Grassmarket said: Problem Rowing & Sailing have is that if you cut the solo discipline numbers, they don’t have any chance of meeting the multi-Continental requirements. Again, Judo - and all the combat sports - are also accessible for the poorest & smallest nations. Agree for cycling road races. I wonder if weightlifting and taekwondo might provide some indirect help. Part of their system is that any NOC can only gain quotas in a limited number of events, unless (in the case of taekwondo) they are right at the top of the world rankings - so if a nation has a TKD in the top 5 in the world, they get a quota place, and technically could get one for every weight - BUT if they get 4 or more in this method, but don't get them all, they cannot pick up new quotas to 'fill out' the team; this allows tkd to keep the Q numbers slightly lower, and slightly more varied, than might otherwise be the case. The effect might be that you need to use two world champs, or a world champs and a Q regatta, and a relatively limited number of spots are distributed in the first event - and if the 'big' nations qualify a set number they cannot go to the Q tournament to gain more boats, and those that can go to the Q regatta can only take as many boats as would get them to the limit too. If you then allow nations qualified in certain boats but not others to have rowers enter two events if they wish (i.e 2 from the M8+ can enter the M2- for a nation that otherwise cannot get an M2- boat (or, in extremist, 4 from the M8+ enter the M4-) you should still get a pretty full timetable but reduced quotas a bit, while keeping the continental spread - would mostly affect teams like GBR, NED, ROM, USA who will have large numbers of boats come what may but are maybe not top 6 in world in a few of them. But they can still enter the less high ranked event, they are absolutely not barred from it, but can only use existing quotas/athletes in other boats to do it. This would NOT however cause any disadvantage to rowers of small nations who are never going to be caught in the limits - indeed, it might allow a lower ranked boat from a non trad nation to sneak another Q place in certain bigger boats if the final Q regatta place/ or continental place were not open to bigger nations with already strong entries guaranteed. Thoughts? Edited October 13, 2023 by mpjmcevoy Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rafa Maciel 1,512 Posted October 13, 2023 #518 Share Posted October 13, 2023 I wonder what Athens and London did to p*ss off the IOC to the extent that they didn't get to add any new sports to the schedule when they hosted. 1992 Barcelona: Adds Badminton 1996 Atlanta: Adds Softball, Mountain Biking and Beach Volleyball 2000 Sydney: Add Taekwondo, Triathlon and Trampoline Gymnastics 2004 Athens: 2008 Beijing: Adds BMX Racing and Open Water Swimming 2012 London....Adds no new sports and drops baseball and softball. 2016 Rio: Adds Rugby 7s and Golf 2020 Tokyo: Adds Skateboarding, Surfing, BMX Freestyle, Sport Climbing, 3x3 Basketball & Karate 2024 Paris: Adds Breaking 2028 Los Angeles: Adds Flag Football, Cricket, Softball/Baseball, Squash & Lacrosse Roamingrover86, thepharoah, Makedonas and 1 other 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mpjmcevoy 270 Posted October 13, 2023 #519 Share Posted October 13, 2023 7 hours ago, Grassmarket said: The cool thing about cricket is that is guaranteed to get the South American quota place. Unless get their act together. I wonder if in the case of South America, we might not have pan-american qualification - or even an unusual split of one Caribbean spot, and one mainland pan-american spot, with Guyana having to join its West Indie brethren in the Caribbean qualification comp. IS a six team tournament really going to have a one per continent rule when there is such disparity between the continents? Are organisers really going to forgoe the chance of IND v PAK to accommodate Guyana, or Surinam - can't see that I think somehow we're gonna end up with USA, Europe 1 (almost certainly GBR, although outside chance of Ireland or Netherlands), (Asia 1) IND or PAK, Africa 1 (RSA), (Oceania 1) AUS and a.n.o probably a playoff between Pan America 1 (Say TRI) and Asia 2 (PAK or IND) An eight team comp would make much more sense in that context with guaranteed spots for Pan America 1 and Asia 2, and a grand final qualifier for the eighth spot., but it is what it is. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Olympian1010 7,659 Posted October 13, 2023 #520 Share Posted October 13, 2023 (edited) participation question will definitely be the forefront of LA28 headlines if lacrosse is approved by the IOC Session. Edited October 13, 2023 by Olympian1010 De_Gambassi and Josh 1 1 “Sport has the power to change the world. It has the power to inspire. Sport can create hope where once there was only despair” - Nelson Mandela Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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