Siddhartha Talukdar 135 Posted October 16, 2023 #561 Share Posted October 16, 2023 7 minutes ago, mpjmcevoy said: Not to mention the fact that World Champions or the equivalent (champions trophy) have come from every continent, not something Baseball could ever dream of - The Americas, Africa, Europe, Asia and Oceania all have produced global winners. The problem with saying "It's only British colonies" is that former British colonies span 5 continents, contain a quarter of all the NOCs in existence and over a quarter of the entire global population. Unless you're soccer, if your sport is 'only' doing well throughout the British colonies, it's doing damn well! Actually many sports were spread by British expats especially football. Prominent clubs like AC Milan, Genoa,Newell's Old Boys, FC Barcelona, Mohun Bagan were founded by British expats. Interestingly, many of the founding clubs were football and cricket clubs but somehow football gained popularity but cricket didn't. Cricket remained popular only in the former colonies, but now is hugely popular in the Indian subcontinent. The cricket teams in the lesser countries like USA, Canada, Italy, UAE are almost made up of South Asian expats or origin Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mpjmcevoy 206 Posted October 16, 2023 #562 Share Posted October 16, 2023 48 minutes ago, Siddhartha Talukdar said: Actually many sports were spread by British expats especially football. Prominent clubs like AC Milan, Genoa,Newell's Old Boys, FC Barcelona, Mohun Bagan were founded by British expats. Interestingly, many of the founding clubs were football and cricket clubs but somehow football gained popularity but cricket didn't. Cricket remained popular only in the former colonies, but now is hugely popular in the Indian subcontinent. The cricket teams in the lesser countries like USA, Canada, Italy, UAE are almost made up of South Asian expats or origin The codification and export of sports is one of the few positive legacies of Empire. The rest was utterly crap, but the sports they've left are quite a lot of fun. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
El Analyzer 160 Posted October 16, 2023 #563 Share Posted October 16, 2023 for the new sports when we are going to know number of athletes, number of quotas per NOCs, number of medal events, general format ...etc ...would it be today or at least some of them today? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Siddhartha Talukdar 135 Posted October 16, 2023 #564 Share Posted October 16, 2023 23 minutes ago, El Analyzer said: for the new sports when we are going to know number of athletes, number of quotas per NOCs, number of medal events, general format ...etc ...would it be today or at least some of them today? For Squash, would like a 32 athlete singles tournament per gender with 2 per NOC if both in top 16 otherwise 1 per NOC For Cricket would like to have an 8 team tournament with champions of Americas, Asia, Africa + Europe, East Asia Pacific (The smallest continental zone in ICC https://www.icc-cricket.com/about/members/east-asia-pacific), 1 team from Ranking/Host Nation, 2 from a qualification tournament. El Analyzer 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
intoronto 4,310 Posted October 16, 2023 #565 Share Posted October 16, 2023 23 minutes ago, Siddhartha Talukdar said: For Squash, would like a 32 athlete singles tournament per gender with 2 per NOC if both in top 16 otherwise 1 per NOC For Cricket would like to have an 8 team tournament with champions of Americas, Asia, Africa + Europe, East Asia Pacific (The smallest continental zone in ICC https://www.icc-cricket.com/about/members/east-asia-pacific), 1 team from Ranking/Host Nation, 2 from a qualification tournament. Cricket will have 6 team tournaments. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
phelps 6,951 Posted October 16, 2023 #566 Share Posted October 16, 2023 (edited) Squash = 32 women, 32 men tournaments = 64 quota places Cricket = 6 teams / tournament = total 12 teams, 15 players each team = 180 quota places Flag Football = 6 teams / tournament = total 12 teams, 11 players each team = 132 quota places Lacrosse Sixies = 6 teams / tournament = total 12 teams, 11 players each team = 132 quota places Softball = 6-team tournament, 15 players each team = 90 quota places Baseball = 8-team tournament, 24 players each team = 192 quota places Total = 790 quota places (which is about the number announced earlier this morning by the IOC) Edited October 16, 2023 by phelps Josh 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Vektor 3,195 Posted October 16, 2023 #567 Share Posted October 16, 2023 The real crime is that all of these sports get included, but tug of war is still not on the table. Bring back tug of war, you fools! Josh and phelps 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
phelps 6,951 Posted October 16, 2023 #568 Share Posted October 16, 2023 1 minute ago, Vektor said: The real crime is that all of these sports get included, but tug of war is still not on the table. Bring back tug of war, you fools! surely it would be more entertaining (and more "global") than flag football and lacrosse Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mpjmcevoy 206 Posted October 16, 2023 #569 Share Posted October 16, 2023 17 minutes ago, Vektor said: The real crime is that all of these sports get included, but tug of war is still not on the table. Bring back tug of war, you fools! You laugh, but wouldn't it be fabulous. Obviously nike would design a supershoe and a superglove... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hckošice 13,287 Posted October 16, 2023 #570 Share Posted October 16, 2023 (edited) 7 hours ago, El Analyzer said: the inclusion of the 5 proposed sports became official now, just curious to know who are the 2 members voted against Tidjane Thiam (CIV) & William Blick (UGA) Apparently, they were worried these team sports are not established enough in Africa... Go and figure Edited October 16, 2023 by hckošice Josh and El Analyzer 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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