World Games 2025

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3 hours ago, Olympian1010 said:

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!

OK, for all of the complaints about clueless commentators, disappearing graphics, not showing this or that event etc etc they actually did a great job of covering all the different sports at some point and getting the finished vids published on the site within a few minutes, and that is 90% of the battle when it comes to creating international interest in your event.  Even much bigger events like the Paralympics don't always manage as much.

 

So   to everyone who worked on that.   

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3 hours ago, Olympian1010 said:

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!

In my case, i never be very interested in the Worl Games but, luckily, i change that, many interesting sports to watch in this tournament.

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Whcih World Games sports would I like to see cross over?

 

Like many here, I love the tumbling and have a lot of time for the variations in Trampoline - sychro, Team and double Mini...but if I had to choose, Tumbling and Double mini look like events that could be added with relatively few extra quotas and still provide six to eight sessions of excellent sport

 

I agree that I think Lacrosse sixes passed its audition, it works. I'm not sure flag football does/did - it'll be fun but even rugby sevens - which splits opinions - seemed more serious.

 

Field Archery offers more than it provides; the biathlon style event does sound more like the alternative 'wild' event that some people might enjoy, though I could imagine an event that operated almost like golf, with 20 set targets, and twenty set marks to aim from, carrying your bow and arrows on your way, tv cameras at each 'hole', with a variety of elevations and distances, and scoring operating, as I say, almost like golf.

 

I do think the olympics need some form of bowling sport. A amny broad families of sport should have some representation as possible, and bowls and bowling seems the one obvious missing link right now.

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9 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?

I'll give a more in-depth opinion once I've watched some more of the events but here are some of the ones I think should/could be included: 

 

Dragon Boat

Speed climbing relay

Canoe Polo

Finswimminh

Wushu

Speed slalom skating

Freestyle slalom skating

Speed skating

Inlin3 hockey

Karate

Parkour

Beach Handball

Lifesaving

Pool

 

And here's some I think shouldn't: 

 

Korfball

Floorball

Fistball

Drone

Motosurf

Wakesurf 

Racquetball

 

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loved flag football and lacrosse was ok, of the two flag football was a lot more competitive across the board. 

 

most of the roller sports were good, and yeah like everyone else get tumbling in

 

no more combat sports please (unless an mma alternative comes up, which im surprised it isnt even at this level)

 

agree with whoever said a bowling sport should be added

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2 hours ago, Grassmarket said:

Even much bigger events like the Paralympics don't always manage as much.  

The Paralympics have been pretty solid in this regard for the last decade or more.

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Happy with this edition for  with a delegation of 9 athletes. First time with more than one medal at a single edition. 

 

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On 8/16/2025 at 3:55 AM, Josh said:

That’s a heartbreaking loss 

 

was 11-9 up, had multiple chances for scores when the  was up 12-11 and ended up converting on one of them… but still lost. 
 

Still winless against them in over 24 years 

Finally had a chance to catch the final, and I managed to avoid any spoilers, which was nice 

 

Great game between  and . Both teams had blunders and strokes of brilliance, but  was just able to sneak away with the win.

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On 8/16/2025 at 12:24 PM, De_Gambassi said:

What's the story behind Korfbal(l) anyway ? I know it's old, but is it a derivative of the early basketball game (like the various football codes around the world) or is it an native dutch game that somehow evolved like basketball ? Or maybe a bit of both ?

Just saw this now, but apparently it came from Swedish ringboll, which was apparently influenced by the early forms of basketball. A Dutch PE teacher saw that, came back home and adapted it a bit and korfball was born. The mix of men/women, which was there since the beginning, apparently worked well and there you go.

 

I have no idea about statistics and it is certainly not like the Dutch team is full of well-known players or anything (go out on the street, ask 100 people to name one single current international, and I'd be surprised if 5 people manage to do so), but it is somewhat popular locally. Like, I remember from my early school times that even in my small town there was an annual 'korfball tournament', with the local schools playing each other (outdoor, on the grass, which was apparently slightly different than indoor). I don't remember ever playing, but it was a somewhat big deal and the one moment in the year to meet the other schools