Summer Olympic Games Los Angeles 2028 Sports Programme Road to LA 2028

[phelps 8,640]

definitely it's not the Olympics I used to love anymore...I'm so disappointed and frustrated...

[Federer91 3,372]

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. 

[Federer91 3,372]

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..

[NearPup 4,136]

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

[phelps 8,640]

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

[JamDH 46]

#UnderwaterTiddlyWinks2032

[mpjmcevoy 377]

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

[Rafa Maciel 1,701]

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

[mpjmcevoy 377]

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.

[Olympian1010 8,284]

 participation question will definitely be the forefront of LA28 headlines if lacrosse is approved by the IOC Session.

Edited October 13, 2023 by Olympian1010