What smaller countries ever hosted the Olympics though? Sarajevo 1984 is probably the last I can imagine and they would never host one in XXI century. The "grandiose" switch definitely happened in Winter Games, I'd never predict China hosting WOG even in early 00s. But the costs have driven many Summer OG candidates away, the bidding process is dead and IOC basically has to beg anyone to even come forward or else we'd have every Summer OG in the Middle East for a very long time.
team
MOGULS
Cali Carr*
Makayla Gerken-Schofield
Mateo Jeannesson
FREESKI PARK & PIPE
Zoe Atkin (Halfpipe)
Tom Greenway* (Slopestyle & Big Air)
Chris McCormick (Slopestyle & Big Air)
Kirsty Muir (Slopestyle & Big Air)
James Pouch* (Slopestyle & Big Air)
Liam Richards* (Halfpipe)
SNOWBOARD PARK & PIPE
Mia Brookes (Slopestyle & Big Air)
Maisie Hill* (Slopestyle & Big Air)
Txema Mazet-Brown* (Slopestyle & Big Air)
Katie Ormerod (Slopestyle & Big Air)
Siddhartha Ullah* (Halfpipe)
SNOWBOARD CROSS
Charlotte Bankes
Huw Nightingale
SKI CROSS
Ollie Davies
Scott Johns*
But yeah, this was fun. Too bad we got a safety car at the end when the rain restarted, because the immense chaos right after both McLaren's went off for a bit was just hilarious
Lots of chaos in Australia today to start the season. As usual, i lost the count of safety cars, that were in the race. The unpredictability and position changes were more frequent, though that was always going to happen in a wet race, but i'll take it as a promising start for 2025.
Antonelli made a memorable debut after all the hype around him. This kid could actually be the real deal.
Just out of curiousity and besides personal preferences for this or that sport or event: what exactly, concretely, did Bach do that 'almost destroyed the Olympics'?
I know the Anglo-World never liked Juan Antonio Samaranch and they're going to be the same with his son, but they should only be grateful to him, because if it wasn't for Don Juan and South Korea, we wouldn't get any Olympic Games nowadays
he did really save the Olympics from the delusions of omnipotence of the politicians ruling the World at that time and from the crazy race to extreme doping of the late Eighties...and if he did something that might be considered "controversial", those who followed him on the sport's more important armchair have been way worse (especially the 1976 Olympic Champion himself, who almost destroyed the Olympics)