Other Multi-Sport Games Discussion Thread

[MHSN 3,621]

14 minutes ago, Vic Liu said:

 

I think the village size won't be a big problem again and I'm OK with the naturalization as it will trigger tenser competition and Qatar and Bahrain will do it anyway.

 

If the AG will make Saudi Arabia accept the women's sports and women spectators, it would be a huge progress and I will definitely vote for them.

 

they simply don't have enough hotels for all those athletes, officials, fans, spectators. AG is still a big event but we know not so many people travel to watch the competition.

and while Qatar and Bahrain always naturalize but it's very different when Qatar hosts, they buy an entire Handball team when they host the WCh, how many players they added to that team ? not much. as far as I know in other times it's more like those athletes offer themselves to Qatar. while when they host Qatar simply search the world for eligible athletes to buy.

 

well OCA let Indonesia drop as many events as they wanted from 2018 AG (for different reasons off course) I'm not sure if they push Saudi into hosting anything they don't want. it will be an interesting challenge.

I'm not so sure about things in Saudi Arabia, my knowledge is limited about them but as far as I know the country is not ready for this yet. this is tooooo much for a country where most women don't even leave the house without their husbands. and nobody else (I mean no other men) never saw their faces in their entire life ! (except husband, father, brother) you can't simply jump from 0 to 100. things should develop slowly

[Vic Liu 1,682]

32 minutes ago, MHSN said:

 

they simply don't have enough hotels for all those athletes, officials, fans, spectators. AG is still a big event but we know not so many people travel to watch the competition.

and while Qatar and Bahrain always naturalize but it's very different when Qatar hosts, they buy an entire Handball team when they host the WCh, how many players they added to that team ? not much. as far as I know in other times it's more like those athletes offer themselves to Qatar. while when they host Qatar simply search the world for eligible athletes to buy.

 

well OCA let Indonesia drop as many events as they wanted from 2018 AG (for different reasons off course) I'm not sure if they push Saudi into hosting anything they don't want. it will be an interesting challenge.

I'm not so sure about things in Saudi Arabia, my knowledge is limited about them but as far as I know the country is not ready for this yet. this is tooooo much for a country where most women don't even leave the house without their husbands. and nobody else (I mean no other men) never saw their faces in their entire life ! (except husband, father, brother) you can't simply jump from 0 to 100. things should develop slowly

 

I hope it will be held in West or Central Asia and looking forward to Saudi's response to women's sports as it can't be a men's game only.

[Griff88 1,952]

12 hours ago, MHSN said:

 

I'm not so sure about things in Saudi Arabia, my knowledge is limited about them but as far as I know the country is not ready for this yet. this is tooooo much for a country where most women don't even leave the house without their husbands. and nobody else (I mean no other men) never saw their faces in their entire life ! (except husband, father, brother) you can't simply jump from 0 to 100. things should develop slowly

 

Even so, I think politics will play its part again and MBS can use the Games as the main showcase for the Saudi 2030 Vision.

 

If they win, I somehow feel that something will happen and we will have a replacement for the host  

[Olympian1010 7,977]

Swimming and Golf have both pulled out of the 2022 European Championships. I expected the European Championships model to lash much longer than this. I’d never thought I’d reach the day where the European Games had a higher chance of success than the European Championships 

[Vojthas 949]

Just now, Olympian1010 said:

Swimming and Golf have both pulled out of the 2022 European Championships. I expected the European Championships model to lash much longer than this. I’d never thought I’d reach the day where the European Games had a higher chance of success than the European Championships 

Thanks for bringing me some good news for a good day end/beginning (yes, I've lost control on my biological clock once again).

[Griff88 1,952]

Bangkok-Chonburi AIMAG 2021 host agreement signing ceremony

 

 

Since OCA is still tight-lipped on Asian Winter Games, it looks like we can expect there won't be AWG in super congested 2021

[Olympian1010 7,977]

I’m surprised they’ve only just made this official. I believe we’re just over a year out from the scheduled dates. The dates are already an issue too since they conflict with the World Combat Games in Kazakhstan!

[Gianlu33 4,574]

2021 Games of Small State of Europe will be postponed.

[Olympian1010 7,977]

4 minutes ago, Gianlu33 said:

2021 Games of Small State of Europe will be postponed.

It’s official. 2021 is worse than 2020. There’s literally zero multi-sports games left besides an Olympic that might not happen. At least 2022 will be epic 

[Griff88 1,952]

13 minutes ago, Olympian1010 said:

I’m surprised they’ve only just made this official. I believe we’re just over a year out from the scheduled dates. The dates are already an issue too since they conflict with the World Combat Games in Kazakhstan!

 

Yeah we have too many Games now