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Modern Pentathlon 2022 Discussion Thread


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43 minutes ago, Grassmarket said:

Death sentence passed on Modern Pentathlon.

 

https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/modern-pentathlon/61573121

I feel it was already pretty dead once the IOC unceremoniously removed it from the list of core sports. Does anyone really think LA 2028 or Brisbane 2032 organizers are going to go to bat to make Modern Pentathlon one of their additional sport?

 

It's undeniably the Summer Olympic sport that provides the least bang for the buck for the IOC, and more than any other Summer sport (and arguably *any* sport other than the sliding sports) it's entirely dependent on the Olympics for it's survival.

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2 hours ago, Grassmarket said:

Death sentence passed on Modern Pentathlon.

 

https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/modern-pentathlon/61573121

lol, called it last year.

 

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As others have said, cycling would be a terrible idea.

 

Knowing that this is a "military sport" and riding was a "obstacle course", it would be interesting if they would have a military obstacle course as the replacement event. Maybe something similar to American Ninja Warrior. I am not joking, that would both be unique to this sport at the Games and it would be fun. It would also require different skills than the simple running + shooting event and it would make a lot of sense given the history and origins of modern pentathlon. 

 

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2 hours ago, NearPup said:

It's undeniably the Summer Olympic sport that provides the least bang for the buck for the IOC, and more than any other Summer sport (and arguably *any* sport other than the sliding sports) it's entirely dependent on the Olympics for it's survival.

Canoeing and sailing are right up there too.

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3 minutes ago, dcro said:

Canoeing and sailing are right up there too.

Canoeing and Sailing have the advantage of still being Olympic sports until at least 2028, a luxury Modern Pentathlon wishes it had.

 

I think both Canoeing and Sailing are in grave danger of having the size of their program significantly downsized but I think both sports will remain in some form long term.

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Canoeing and sailing at least have the ability to be shrunk (and in canoeing's case able to drop slalom). Modern pentathlon can't shrink without disappearing.

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9 hours ago, JoshMartini007 said:

Canoeing and sailing at least have the ability to be shrunk (and in canoeing's case able to drop slalom). Modern pentathlon can't shrink without disappearing.

Slalom is more TV friendly than Sprint, which is why they added two more slalom events while they removed the two 200m sprint events. So yeah, there's no way that they are dropping slalom. 

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33 minutes ago, Vektor said:

Slalom is more TV friendly than Sprint, which is why they added two more slalom events while they removed the two 200m sprint events. So yeah, there's no way that they are dropping slalom. 

While I agree, slalom does have a large elephant in the room called venue.

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Slalom canoe existed before the Olympics. It’ll be fine. Likewise sailing. The Americas Cup is bigger than the Olympics and there’ll always be rich people wanting to sail

 

Modern Pentathlon genuinely is in trouble of collapsing

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First, every single one of our canoeing specialists had to change their discipline, European and World Champions had to forget about sprints and learn longer distances, jump into different boats, never having canoed in doubles or fours.

 

Then, this whole modern-pentathlon shake up in which we have a long and successful history.

 

It feels like this is a master plan to sabotage Lithuania, with many of our strategic sports under fire. 

 

I don't care about making Olympics more hip with the youth, I was young when I fell in love with the Olympics and I don't particularly feel that the event catered to me, because it didn't have to. Rollerskating, skateboarding, wall-climbing, golfing, breakdancing, 13yo gold medalists... it's just ughhh making this a joke for me.

 

Don't blink, they'll find a way to ruin Athletics, Rowing and Swimming for me too.

 

 

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Ah yes, the youthful and hip sport of golf. :p

 

I think the IOC needs to concede to either cut sports/events or increase the total number of athletes to around 12,000. That's how many athletes we needed once they made the (correct) decision to expand women's sports.

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