Given men's football is the one event in all of the Olympics where the best athletes aren't allowed to compete... not sure how this move is "pure wokism". The women's tournament is essentially a mini world cup, the men's tournament is a side show we tolerate because it generates ticket sales.
Would be a different story, of course, if the men's event wasn't a U23 competition that isn't even within a FIFA window.
Eh, not sure I agree. The team events are basically a free gold medal for China, so they are trading two free gold medals for one free gold medal and two likely gold medals. Doubles is a format where upsets are much more likely to happen than team matches.
Either way, I think from a spectator standpoint it is a win. The doubles tournaments will be much more interesting than the team tournaments were.
men's Trap
Gold: Jean Pierre Brol Cardenas
Silver: Walton Eller
Bronze: William Hinton
Full Results & Rankings
https://www.issf-sports.org/competitions/3268/results
so, Table Tennis loses the single gender team events, replaced by the mixed team event and there's also the comeback of the single gender doubles beside the confirmed mixed doubles
all of that, just to gift a few more free gold medals
meanwhile Tennis will have a mixed event rather than the classic mixed doubles...we'll see what they will figure out for that
Thursday April 10th, 2025
Preliminary Round Day 2 Schedule
Group A
Central European Summer Time (GMT +2)
Canada vs Finland
Period-by-Period:
April 9th 2025, h. 19:00, Arena 膶esk茅 Bud臎jovice, 膶esk茅 Bud臎jovice
Group B
Central European Summer Time (GMT +2)
Japan vs Norway
Period-by-Period:
April 9th 2025, h. 11:00, Arena 膶esk茅 Bud臎jovice, 膶esk茅 Bud臎jovice
Sweden vs Hungary
Period-by-Period:
April 9th 2025, h. 15:00, Arena 膶esk茅 Bud臎jovice, 膶esk茅 Bud臎jovice
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