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[Orangehair43 320]

42 minutes ago, NearPup said:

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.

It should have come in 2012. Sam’s with Rugby sevens. Two British sports debuting a games too late, 

[phelps 8,793]

5 minutes ago, Orangehair43 said:

How much IOC pressure was he under. 

no pressure...he sold himself and the sport for the roles he has now

 

typical of any European politician

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9 minutes ago, phelps said:

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

Apart from that one they are building one in Logan City, where they are also building a 7000 seat arena for the games that will host events.

 

https://ourlogan.com.au/our-logan-magazine/council-signs-with-griffith-university-for-logan-baseball-and-softball-olympic-hope/

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21 hours ago, Orangehair43 said:

It’s amazing how little interest tommrow is getting pn here. It loos to be a very major day with June more rubber at ling of the major decisions made. 

Nearly 10 pages, I've rarely seen this much interest for a press conference-like thing  I guess reading up on the news will have to be for tomorrow  

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6 hours ago, Orangehair43 said:

That’s a huge risk. International Events are going to get cancelled in some European countries now for sure. We have seen some already get cancelled 

Why, exactly? Because, you know, they're not, but you know that too  

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5 hours ago, NearPup said:

Yup... Greco-roman wrestling is on some thin, thin ice as well.

 

I also am thinking that canoe slalom might be in some danger too, they are really hammering home the cost of venues in this press conference.

 

Also looks like the IOC will no longer be doing host sports. Coventry is talking specifically about the IOC regaining control over the program and also shrinking the size of the program.

What is the consequence of the discipline re-aligment, other than cosmetic? I mean, does it really matter if someone competes in slopestyle and big air as separate disciplines or if the little tag they put on them are 'events' instead if 'disciplines'?

 

Kind of dumb if race-walking is in trouble while the cost of venues is a thing. You literally only need about a kilometer of already existing road, perhaps two (it should be more, but yeah).

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4 minutes ago, heywoodu said:

What is the consequence of the discipline re-aligment, other than cosmetic? I mean, does it really matter if someone competes in slopestyle and big air as separate disciplines or if the little tag they put on them are 'events' instead if 'disciplines'?

 

Kind of dumb if race-walking is in trouble while the cost of venues is a thing. You literally only need about a kilometer of already existing road, perhaps two (it should be more, but yeah).

It's only important in so much as the discipline will be the unit they will use to evaluate what to keep or remove for the games. The fact that they separated race walking from the Marathon as a discipline is, to me, a sign that they are at least considering cutting race walking.

 

Likewise, it isn't an awesome sign for either aerials or snowboard Alpine to be separated from freestyle skiing and snowboarding.

 

Of coure it could mean nothing.

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4 hours ago, Orangehair43 said:

Sliding sports must be in big danger under the cost of venue focus. Golf as well.

Especially if they just refuse to build on what was already worked on years ago: a modular track, which can be built up, broken down and built up somewhere else (even in a different lay-out) at a fraction of the cost of the current behemoths.

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2 minutes ago, NearPup said:

It's only important in so much as the discipline will be the unit they will use to evaluate what to keep or remove for the games. The fact that they separated race walking from the Marathon as a discipline is, to me, a sign that they are at least considering cutting race walking.

 

Likewise, it isn't an awesome sign for either aerials or snowboard Alpine to be separated from freestyle skiing and snowboarding.

 

Of coure it could mean nothing.

Some things are also just a bit more...logical. Can one really consider aerials to be freestyle skiing, for example? Whereas slopestyle, halfpipe and big air have kind of the break dancing 'yo yo, do what's cool and see what happens, peace out' kind of vibe, aerials is more like gymnastics or figure skating: bound to very strict and precise rules and much less of the 'hippie vibe' (for lack of a better term)  

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4 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.

What exactly would be the issue with having women's Greco-Roman, other than 'we aren't used to that'? I have no idea why men do two similar but somewhat different things, while the women do only one