Your post Beijing 2022 Winter Olympics Sport Program Review

[OlympicsFan 858]

Alpine skiing

- No combined

- Different format for the team event: Only two athletes per nation and both race once on the blue and once on the red course.

 

Biathlon

- Drop the pursuit

- Make the races "more different". At least one event should clearly favor good shooters and one should clearly favor good skiers.

 

Bobsleigh

- Monobob and two-man for both men and women

 

Cross-country skiing

Relay: Don't change anything

Team sprint: One leg freestyle, the other leg classic style

7.5/10 km classic style interval/mass start (maybe alternate between interval start and mass start every olympics)

7.5/10 km freestyle interval/mass start

Classic style sprint

Freestyle sprint

 

Alternative: Completely get rid of classic style and only have freestyle events.

 

Curling

Absurd to say that this is the sport with the most depth ...

Don't really have any thoughts about this sport, but 3 events seems like enough.

 

Figure skating

Get rid of the team event and the ice dance

 

Freestyle skiing

Get rid of mixed aerials and include mixed ski cross (or get rid of mixed snowboardcross, makes zero sense to have mixed snowboardcross but not mixed ski cross)

 

Hockey

No thoughts

 

Luge

Drop the relay and maybe add women's doubles (or drop men's doubles and add mixed doubles at some point after 2026)

 

Nordic Combined

Either only have a normal hill competition (same in ski jumping -> Less costs building only one hill) or make the two individual competitions more distinct so that one clearly favors good jumpers and the other clearly favors good skiers. Also maybe add a women's event and a mixed event (overall this sport shouldn't have more than 4 events).

 

Short track speed skating

Too many events, completely absurd that this sport and speed skating combine for a billion events. If the alpine skiing combined event is dropped, then this sport and alpine skiing have the same number of events!!! I would drop the 1000 m race and maybe also the relays or the mixed relay.

 

Skeleton

Not sure how a relay would work in this sport, probably would be best to keep everything the same.

 

Ski Jumping

Maybe add a women's team event and drop the men's large hill competition. No point in building two hill just for the olympics.

 

Snowboarding

Program seems fine. Only thing i would do is find a common scoring system for the ski freestyle/snowboard events. Sometimes adding the top 2 scores and sometimes only taking the best score is pretty confusing (especially for the casual viewer).

 

Speed Skating

I would only have the following events:

500 m m/w

1500 m m/w

5000 m m/w

Team pursuit m/w

Maybe mixed relay/pursuit

[thiago_simoes 1,423]

8 hours ago, intoronto said:

I am sorry you find these sports boring, but are a huge fan of gymnastics? With all due respect, that is pretty laughable.

Well, I understand what gymnastics is about and there is real skill involved in performing the actions. Gymnasts are not one trick ponies like many of the winter Olympics athletes are. Still, you're entitled to your opinion. So am I to mine. 

[phelps 7,670]

my 2 cents (and I know anybody would never agree with me...but it's just my personal opinion/taste )...

 

Alpine skiing

- Only the 4 traditional events (slalom, GS, super-G, downhill) for both men and women

- NO team event, no combined, no mixed gender events

 

Biathlon

- Drop the pursuit

- Mass Start featuring heats and final and not leaving it to the privileged biathletes who have done well in previous events

- NO supersprint nor single mixed relay or any other mixed farce they might think about...

 

Bobsleigh

- Get rid of monobob, the women's game depth is so poor that 2-woman bob is even too much...fuck the gender equality

- NO more "research & development allowed"...standard sleds and equipment provided by IBSF only for all the 3 remaining events...

 

Cross-country skiing

- Relay: Don't change anything

- Team sprint: OUT (because it's all but a sprint event)

- Skiathlon: OUT(technically it's pure nonsense)

- only 2 real endurance races, both as time trial (and always in the same technique: 30km men/15km women freestyle, 50km men/30km women classic, because that's always been the epic race of them all, and the Games must feature that race)

- Individual sprint for pure specialists (so, always in freestyle; lenght between 1000m and 1100m, no more than that and no climbs and downhills, a totally flat terrain)

 

Curling

- No mixed gender events. point. Men and women's teams are more than enough (if you want more action, make the traditional game more attractive using some of the rules currently in play in the mixed event)...

 

Figure skating

- Get rid of the team event

 

Freestyle skiing

- Moguls & Aerials: OUT

- Big Air: OUT

- Halfpipe, Slopestyle and Skicross individual events for both men and women are more than enough

 

Hockey

- increase the depth of the game or throw the women's hockey out...at the moment, only USA vs CAN is a barely watchable matchup...

 

Luge

- women's doubles instead of the team relay...it's already the direction towards they're going, just accelerate that...

- add men and women's singles in Natural Track Luge (there's already more depth in these events now than in artificial track's...imagine if it would become an olympic discipline)...

- also here, no more "research & development"...standard equipment for all lugers provided by FIL only

 

Nordic Combined

- get rid of normal hills...therefore, men's individual race, men's team event and women's individula event (all of them on the large hill) are more than enough (once the game has enough depth at the top level, the women's team even can easily be added)...

 

Short track speed skating

- NO mixed gender relay

- Increase to at least 12 (16 would be a lot better) the number of teams taking part into the men and women's relays, so to have 3 competitive rounds instead of only 2...

 

Skeleton

- It's OK as it is...but once again, standard equipment for every rider provided by IBSF only

 

Ski Jumping

- Get rid of normal hill: men and women's individual and team events (all of them on the large hill) are more than enough

- if you didn't understand the refrain yet, NO mixed gender event

 

Snowboarding

- Big Air: OUT

- Mixed Team Snowboardcross: OUT

- men and women's individual Halfpipe, Slopestyle and Snowboardcross are more than enough

- in the alpine section of the sport, no more PGS, but PSL and GS (like the old one, the same rules of the alpine skiing "cousin") for both men and women

 

Speed Skating

- Keep only the 5 traditional distances (500m, 1000m, 1500m, 3000/5000m, 5000m/10000m) for both men and women

- 500m events absolutely to be held over 2 races (with skaters going on both inner and outer lane once)

- Get rid of every other thing...

 

Ski Mountaineering

- OK the individual races for both men and women over the Sprint and Classic distance

- NO mixed relay, but 4-man and 4-woman's relays over the Classic relay distance (every leg being half the Classic individual race)

 

p.s. happy to see the men and women's Individual events in Ice Climbing to be added to the program and the number of athletes allowed to compete at the Games increased by a few hundreds

 

 

p.s. I forgot one thing: FUCK THE GENDER EQUALITY!!! 

[Grassmarket 3,404]

Create an artificial city-centre course - it's been done before, there's a regular one in Moscow, not to mention the Steel Factory Big Air we had in Beijing - for both Alpine Team and the two Snowboard Parallel Slalom events to ensure absolute equality between lanes.   Also brings the event to a new audience.

 

Mixed team snowboard cross - as others say, there is no way this can be made into a workable, fair event.

 

Biathlon pursuit - Hold time trial mini sprint four shoot qualifiers on Day 0 and use that as the basis for full 60 person pursuit on Day 1.  No penalty loops, just a 15 second* time penalty for each miss.

 

*Or whatever time penalty is needed to produce a roughly three minute gap between first and sixtieth place at that start.