Tokyo Summer Olympic Games 2020 News

[De_Gambassi 1,225]

Squash watching this and killing itsif a second time.

[barsaoui2009 2]

Surfing confirmed in the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games

http://www.surfertoday.com/surfing/12955-surfing-confirmed-in-the-tokyo-2020-olympic-games

[carivan 73]

  On 8/3/2016 at 7:21 PM, heywoodu said:

MLB bosses when they hear that recommendation:

 

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LOL. Exactly.

 

I'd add surfing and climbing but sadly, I agree we're getting all 5.

[phelps 7,797]

  On 8/3/2016 at 7:19 PM, heywoodu said:

While we're listening these ancient skeletons talk, let's have a little poll  

 

Which sports do you think will be added to Tokyo 2020? 

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I think they will say YES to all 5...

 

personally, as I wrote in the past, I'd say YES only to sport climbing (but not under those rules...only if they put the Lead and Speed special disciplines as Olympic events), Baseball/Softball (but only if they have a 12-team tournament with all the MLB, KOR and JPN leagues' stars) and Karate (but only with the full 5+5 weight classes of Kumite and with a decent - definitely not less than 16 per weight - number of competitors, without that boring farce named Kata)...

[DaniSRB 899]

  On 8/3/2016 at 7:23 PM, phelps said:

I think they will say YES to all 5...

 

personally, as I wrote in the past, I'd say YES only to sport climbing (but not under those rules...only if they put the Lead and Speed special disciplines as Olympic events), Baseball/Softball (but only if they have a 12-team tournament with all the MLB, KOR and JPN leagues' stars) and Karate (but only with the full 5+5 weight classes of Kumite and with a decent - definitely not less than 16 per weight - number of competitors, without that boring farce named Kata)...

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and what they plan for karate then?

[carivan 73]

  On 8/3/2016 at 7:24 PM, DaniSRB said:

and what they plan for karate then?

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3 kumite and 1 kata per gender

[De_Gambassi 1,225]

Dick 

[phelps 7,797]

  On 8/3/2016 at 7:24 PM, DaniSRB said:

and what they plan for karate then?

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just look at page 2 of this same thread...

they aim at 3+3 classes with just 10 athletes per class for Kumite and the same amount of players for Kata (which only has 1 male and 1 female class, at least)...

with so few competitions, all medals would go to the sport powerhouses (FRA and JPN above all) and the smaller Nation (which could have a shot if there would be enough chances) will be left without any possibility event to qualify...

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[DaniSRB 899]

  On 8/3/2016 at 7:27 PM, carivan said:

 

3 kumite and 1 kata per gender

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[carivan 73]

Wow, the old skeletons are going at it LOL. Raising fair critisms, tbh.