Winter Youth Olympic Games 2024

[heywoodu 14,908]

Apparently Norway has, for whatever reason, refused every single quota in cross-country skiing and alpine skiing  

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6 minutes ago, heywoodu said:

Apparently Norway has, for whatever reason, refused every single quota in cross-country skiing and alpine skiing  

Probably to fit in the much higher standard of the Norwegian High School Championships.  

[Olympian1010 7,937]

39 minutes ago, heywoodu said:

What's going on with the cross-country skiing program being cut to almost nothing?

I actually miss the “cross country cross” events. Yeah, the idea was a bit silly, but it was something unique to the YOG. 

Really, the only thing missing is the skiathlon, mass start, or mixed team sprint. They could probably add the mixed team sprint, so the program includes two sprint opportunities, and two individual opportunities. I wouldn’t mind a mass start, but I don’t know how common those are at the youth level. 

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17 minutes ago, heywoodu said:

Apparently Norway has, for whatever reason, refused every single quota in cross-country skiing and alpine skiing  

It was the talk of the thread about a week ago 

 

On 12/18/2023 at 9:48 AM, Olympian1010 said:

 rejected all of their quotas in cross country skiing 

 

On 12/18/2023 at 10:46 AM, intoronto said:

 rejected 6 quotas!  2 1 

At this rate we will get and  into the games 

 

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2 hours ago, Olympian1010 said:

I actually miss the “cross country cross” events. Yeah, the idea was a bit silly, but it was something unique to the YOG. 

Really, the only thing missing is the skiathlon, mass start, or mixed team sprint. They could probably add the mixed team sprint, so the program includes two sprint opportunities, and two individual opportunities. I wouldn’t mind a mass start, but I don’t know how common those are at the youth level. 

Yeah, I'm fine with the cross for the YOG, but just would have liked to see a bit more than this. The entire YOG program now is smaller than some World Cup weekends.

 

It should at the very least have a mass start distance event, like the skiathlon indeed. Wouldn't say I'd be much impressed with another sprint event, with the individual sprint and only 5k in the relays the short-distance specialists, even for youth athletes, already have (relatively) enough to shine. Would have been better to add a skiathlon of at least 10k, youth athletes are young, but not incapable of racing  

Edited December 26, 2023 by heywoodu

[Dragon 1,834]

15 hours ago, heywoodu said:

Apparently Norway has, for whatever reason, refused every single quota in cross-country skiing and alpine skiing  

This is actually a serious threat to the Youth Olympics. A lot of countries are beginning to turn against the concept of world level competition for teenagers because of the damage they think it does to their long term prospects

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19 hours ago, Dragon said:

This is actually a serious threat to the Youth Olympics. A lot of countries are beginning to turn against the concept of world level competition for teenagers because of the damage they think it does to their long term prospects

How does it damage on a long term basis?

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7 hours ago, Fly_like_a_don said:

How does it damage on a long term basis?

The argument that is being made is that too much high level competition at a young age causes physical and mental health problems in the long term

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5 hours ago, Dragon said:

The argument that is being made is that too much high level competition at a young age causes physical and mental health problems in the long term

Yeah, I've heard this in regards to over training and hyper-specialization, which are both problems in youth sport in the United States. Athlete burn out due to fatigue, poorer results, injury, etc. has become a talking point at the youth level.

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Good news for the YOG maybe?