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[Faramir 459]

IOC leader Coventry warns of ‘uncomfortable’ change coming to Olympics programs

 

I fear they're really going to cut sports from the Summer and put them in the Winter Olympics... I miss Bach

 

[heywoodu 16,146]

On 12/10/2025 at 6:09 PM, NearPup said:

I do think they have a point, the selection criteria that ,  and  have now are completly unecessary in an era of limited quotas and they only serve to make Olympic competition worse.

 

Not that there aren't circumstances where rejecting quotas make sense (retirements, injury, some continental quotas in particularely weak continents), but fundamentally, if you qualify for the Olympics you should get to go.

It does cost money to send and accommodate athletes at the village, the NOC is expected to pay for their stay and so on, so I am ok with some sort of extra criteria. It's just that requiring top-8's or something is too much.

[heywoodu 16,146]

8 minutes ago, Faramir said:

IOC leader Coventry warns of ‘uncomfortable’ change coming to Olympics programs

 

I fear they're really going to cut sports from the Summer and put them in the Winter Olympics... I miss Bach

 

It depends on exactly how they do it. If it frees up space for additional sports in general, or bigger fields in sports with a ridiculously low amount of quotas, I'd be ok with it.

[Federer91 3,080]

7 minutes ago, Faramir said:

IOC leader Coventry warns of ‘uncomfortable’ change coming to Olympics programs

 

I fear they're really going to cut sports from the Summer and put them in the Winter Olympics... I miss Bach

 

Didn't read any firm notes about that in the mash of worthless words, that is this Coventry speech.. But we all knew she was a terrible choice already when she was elected, so wouldn't be surprised of the eventual ruining of Olympic core values for greed and power.

[Orangehair43 285]

21 minutes ago, Faramir said:

IOC leader Coventry warns of ‘uncomfortable’ change coming to Olympics programs

 

I fear they're really going to cut sports from the Summer and put them in the Winter Olympics... I miss Bach

 

I suspect they will propose a lot and then most changes won’t happen. 

[JoshMartini007 2,806]

The less politics part essentially confirms my suspicion that both Belarus and Russia will compete under their own flag in 2028. The Refugee Team may be at risk or at the very least the team will be a lot smaller.

 

In terms of sport program, I think the plan is to remove nostalgia from the equation. If an event only has 10-20 active nations then maybe it doesn't belong at the Olympics.

[hckošice 15,831]

Here for the 289563479265856444825th time the idea to save costs and quotas

 

Cut the juniors Football 

Edited 4 hours ago by hckošice

[NearPup 3,615]

4 minutes ago, hckošice said:

Here for the 289563479265856444825th time the idea to save costs and quotas

 

Cut the juniors Football 

This would increase, not reduce, costs. It’s consistently a revenue generating sport.

[hckošice 15,831]

1 minute ago, NearPup said:

It’s consistently a revenue generating sport.

 

Is there really ? Like really it is followed ? (I mean apart the two days before the opening ceremony)

[hckošice 15,831]

Just now, hckošice said:

 

Is there really ? Like really it is followed ? (I mean apart the two days before the opening ceremony)

like seriously, I consider myself like a total olympic fanatic person, but I never watched a single second of football at the olympics once the opening ceremony started except the gold medal games ofc