World Games 2025

[heywoodu 16,465]

2 minutes ago, hckošice said:

Canoe Slalom C2 and 50km Race Walk please

This is like a bad break-up or a death of someone close or something. You know, you're doing fine at some point after a while, but then you hear or see the name or have some sudden memory, and your heart breaks again. That's sort of what it is with the 50k race walk at a major global sports event, I miss it, badly  

[Dragon 2,074]

47 minutes ago, heywoodu said:

This is like a bad break-up or a death of someone close or something. You know, you're doing fine at some point after a while, but then you hear or see the name or have some sudden memory, and your heart breaks again. That's sort of what it is with the 50k race walk at a major global sports event, I miss it, badly  

@heywoodu We know some of walkers and know they're some of the best people in the whole of sport

[Dragon 2,074]

1 minute ago, Dragon said:

@heywoodu We know some of walkers and know they're some of the best people in the whole of sport

Well, maybe not some of the Russians...

[De_Gambassi 1,369]

2 hours ago, JoshMartini007 said:

So now that the events are over. Which sports/events (if any) would you like to see added to the Olympics?

Tumbling defintely, (speed) Parkour potentially at some point in the future and that's it. Not, I don't enjoy some other world games disciplines (fistball, fin swimming, lyonnaise or my dear canoeing polo), but realy everything else doesn't seem like olympic material to me. Too much niche, too much weird, too much redundant, too much artistich or leisurish and not enough sportish, etc.

 

 

[Dragon 2,074]

1 hour ago, heywoodu said:

Disclaimer: I'm not really going for things like "how easily would it fit in the program in terms of number of athletes" and "do enough countries win medals" and stuff like that, just going by what I have seen and what my personal opinions are  

 

Artistic & Dance Sports
I absolutely want to see tumbling in the Olympics, out of all the sports and events here, that is by far my number one wish. I would also certainly be fine with the double mini-trampoline.

 

Ball Sports
I've always found canoe polo quite cool to watch, plys it is a very different thing than anything else. Lacrosse was also quite nice, wouldn't mind if that stays in the Olympics.

 

Martial Arts
The (combat) sambo was interesting and often brought some exciting moments, so did the wushu (sanda) and the K1 kickboxing. Not really sure if it was enough for me to add another combat sport, but if so, I'd probably go for sambo.

 

Precision Sports
I had hoped to go for field archery, but I thought it was more of a 'run around and shoot targets' kind of thing, so was somewhat disappointed. No to the billiards for me and the boules....alright, the lyonnaise progressive and the precision shooting were pretty enjoyable, but I think not really enough to want to see it at the Olympics.

 

Strength Sports
As I've already said for years: I want tug-of-war to become Olympic and become a big deal, that'd be awesome. Great teamwork, pure technique and strength, really different than any other sport, it was all the ingredients for me.

 

Trend Sports
Dragon boat racing was fun enough to watch, I especially liked the beating of the drums. Finswimming, absolutely, as long as the camera work is good, it is nice and exciting to watch. The freediving too (but one of the two disciplines, having both is unncessary), super nice but tense slow-TV. Inline track speed skating would be nice as a summer equivalent of shorttrack, kind of, although I fear it would be bad for our beloved speed skating (you know, on ice). Life saving was nice too, I would be fine with ultimate disc (as long as American football isn't on there, should be one or the other, the one with a ball or the one with a disc).

OK. This is a bad sign.

The sports and events I want to include would be the ones I would know  would be good at.

But to be honest I do really like tumbling, tug of war and canoe polo. Tumbling I find spectacular, tug of war everybody in Britain competes at school sports day and one of my neighbours competed in canoe polo. This sounds horribly biased

[phelps 8,728]

2 hours ago, heywoodu said:

Precision Sports

I had hoped to go for field archery, but I thought it was more of a 'run around and shoot targets' kind of thing, so was somewhat disappointed.

that would be Archery Biathlon, which also exists by itself (in both the summer & winter versions) ☝️

 

ps Artistic & Dance just CAN'T have the word SPORT beside them 😈

 

pps I agree about Tug of War

[Antoricci87 32]

Karatè for sure, it’s global, and the only time it was Olympic 20 noc won at lest a medal, canoe polo could be a candidate, maybe a roller sport

[hckošice 16,630]

Slovakia at the World Games 2025

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5th and 6th Medal were added to the final amount for  during the last day of the Games,

 

second and third Bronze, Finally First medal also for a male representative 

and medal also for our two teenagers including the youngest athlete of our delegation 14 years old Sara Žuborová.

 

 

Emma Strculová 

Motosurf (W Individual)

BRONZE MEDAL

 

 

Marek Škamla / Sara Žuborová 

Motosurf (Mixed Relay)

BRONZE MEDAL

 

[heywoodu 16,465]

40 minutes ago, Antoricci87 said:

Karatè for sure, it’s global, and the only time it was Olympic 20 noc won at lest a medal, canoe polo could be a candidate, maybe a roller sport

But make it kyokushin karate, so it's really about fighting as hard as you can (like any combat sport should be at the highest multi-sport event level).

[Olympian1010 8,305]

This is officially the longest thread for The World Games on Totallympics 

 

I wasn't around as much towards the end, but it was a lot of fun having such an active thread with everyone once again. Let's do this more often!