International Olympic Committee News

[NearPup 4,190]

1 hour ago, hoversaBR said:

How is golf rated? Was it a success? In Brazil, nobody (or probably very few people) cares about it, but I suppose it's popular in many countries? 

Golf debuting in Rio was... unfortunate because it required actually building a venue. Golf in 2020, 2024, 2028 and 2032 are all using existing venues that required no or very minor renovations. So I suspect it's pretty safe. It's a similar situation to tennis, building a venue is very expensive but most cities that would host the Olympics already have an adequate venue nearby.

 

My understanding is that Olympic golf has actually been doing pretty good numbers ratings wise, at least in the US.

Edited 1 hour ago by NearPup

[phelps 8,793]

4 hours ago, Jur said:

Well, I feel Race-Walking is cooked 

race walking has cooked itself by becoming more and more a farce because of incompetent, biased and sometimes corrupted judging 

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2 hours ago, JoshMartini007 said:

Thought they would bring Russia back too. I guess they want to test the waters with Belarus. 

 

I'm glad they are getting rid of host sports. It will force them to make a decision on baseball/softball and cricket. Those stadiums are not cheap, but they do bring in a lot of revenue. 

I think they are already building a Diamond stadium for Baseball for the Brisbane Games, so I will wonder that it would be already spoken...

[copravolley 657]

It's good that at least there will be no indoor sports in the winter at the Olympics, apart from sports on ice.

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Belarus is not officially participating in the war, but allows attacks on Ukraine from there and Russian troops are there for many years (in fact, it's a country 100% dependent on Russia because of their troops there). I think this is testing the ground for a future Russian return. I'm curious what they'll do with Belarus ice hockey? Will they join the World Elite next year, or force them to play in lower divisions? In Russia's case, there's a 99% chance they'll join World Elite after their return.

Edited 1 hour ago by copravolley

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4 hours ago, Faramir said:

Separating Greco-Roman from freestyle wrestling doesn't make much sense given their own definition of discipline based on field of play. So that likely meand they are going to kick it out.

And interesting that Estanguet in the Programme Commission signed the death sentence of canoe slalom. Talk about forgetting where you come from.

remember that Estanguet axed Karate (a very French sport) from Paris program for Breakdance 

 

what can go wrong with him in this commission?

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5 minutes ago, Jur said:

I think they are already building a Diamond stadium for Baseball for the Brisbane Games, so I will wonder that it would be already spoken...

they already have a baseball stadium, hosting a team in the uprising Australian Baseball League

 

of course right now it's a small stadium (good for the league purpose), but it's not that they have to build it from scratch, they just need to increase the seating capacity (with temporary stands) for the Games

 

the problem with Baseball is always the same: there's no chance to see the best on best playing at the Olympics (LA 2028 would be an exception, if it happens...and I'm not sure at all yet)

this puts it in danger more than any other cost issue

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3 hours ago, NearPup said:

Freestyle wrestling is absolutely safe. But because it is now a different discipline than Greco-Roman it will be evaluated differently.

 

Greco-Roman is in trouble because there is no women’s event. Assuming Nordic combined either gets dropped or has women’s events added (hard to imagine neither of those happens) then Greco-Roman wresting would be the *only* discipline without a women’s event.

come on!

artistic swimming basically has no men competing, rhythmic gymnastic is officially a female only sport

if they axe those 2 disciplines, then we can start talking of removing GR wrestling (which is also one of the sports present since the birth of the modern games)

until then, it shouldn't even be an argument

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1 hour ago, De_Gambassi said:

Don't remember that. If IOC faces legal challenges on top of the internal politics... Yeah, good luck to cut anything.

I don’t think this process could be legally challenged- the IOC seems to have good lawyers now a days. 

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15 minutes ago, phelps said:

remember that Estanguet axed Karate (a very French sport) from Paris program for Breakdance 

 

what can go wrong with him in this commission?

How much IOC pressure was he under. 

Edited 51 minutes ago by Orangehair43