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Out of all the sports rumored to be cut the only ones I would be fine with removing (Even though they should stay) are Modern Pentathlon, race walking, squash and eventing. Flag football and lacrosse are sports I personally like but there isn't enough global popularity to stay in my opinion.

 

Baseball, Softball, Cricket and Canoe slalom are sports that should 100% be at the games but I understand if they are cut from games where there is not a good venue available.

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9 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).

Like I say, in the Olympic context it has meaning in terms of the numbers of athletes competing and the medals given.  Conspiracy theory:  the IOC is doing it to make it more likely that federations will cut their OWN sports by setting up a  rivalry between say, canoe slalom and canoe sprint, or pool swimming and open water swimming etc etc.  

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2 hours ago, Orangehair43 said:

Artistic swimming and Rhythmic gymnastics could survive because the venues are already going to be used for something else. Same with Greco Roman. 
 

Mountain Biking might be one in danger. Another sole venue discipline. 
 

https://www.thesportsexaminer.com/international-olympic-committee-no-sports-cut-yet-but-a-process-for-cuts-by-discipline-youth-olympic-games-on-hold/

But there's a difference between an expensive venue that needs to be built up entirely for one sport, or a sport that has a sole venue but a venue one doesn't need to construct from scratch, like mountain biking. I know they often do, but they don't need to build a whole track, the entire point of mountain biking is to go into the woods and mountains and stuff that's already there.

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7 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.

Splitting shooting in two is a big one. Suggests bug cuts there could happen. 

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1 minute ago, Grassmarket said:

Like I say, in the Olympic context it has meaning in terms of the numbers of athletes competing and the medals given.  Conspiracy theory:  the IOC is doing it to make it more likely that federations will cut their OWN sports by setting up a  rivalry between say, canoe slalom and canoe sprint, or pool swimming and open water swimming etc etc.  

I don’t really get your point?
 

I think open water swimming could go as well. Or maybe changed completely, 

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Anyway, in the end there are only going to be athletes who actually lose with all this. I might be happy to see sport X gone, someone else might be fine with removing discipline Y or whatever, but any decision to remove anything has a way bigger effect than us not seeing them on TV - in any sport there's the athletes whose dream is one day competing in the Olympics and they will not just see a decision and think "aw, now I won't see that", but basically see one of their biggest life goals shattered by some people's decisions.

 

It needs no explanation that sports where this is not an issue, so where the Olympics are not the main event, can safely be cut from the program.

 

 

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Just now, Orangehair43 said:

I don’t really get your point?
 

I think open water swimming could go as well. Or maybe changed completely, 

Well, the IOC could say to World Aquatics,  you can only have all those dozens of Pool Swimming relay events, if you agree to get rid of the Open Water events.  Then of course World Aquatics will listen to their sponsors and say "keep the relays" and the IOC gets rid of Open Water without having their fingerprints on the dagger.  

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4 minutes ago, Orangehair43 said:

Splitting shooting in two is a big one. Suggests bug cuts there could happen. 

Splitting shooting makes absolute sense. They could even easily have rifle and pistol as separate disciplines, but separating the indoor and outdoor events, which are just so absolutely different in every aspect, makes total sense.

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What's everyone's thoughts on Coventry's presidency so far now that she has been president for a while? 

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Just now, Grassmarket said:

Well, the IOC could say to World Aquatics,  you can only have all those dozens of Pool Swimming relay events, if you agree to get rid of the Open Water events.  Then of course World Aquatics will listen to their sponsors and say "keep the relays" and the IOC gets rid of Open Water without having their fingerprints on the dagger.  

Or, and just hear me out, we add a few relays - and the 50 meters - to the swimming program. That could be a nice way to mix things up and at the same time give swimmers a chance to showcase themselves a bit more than in the currently limited pool program.