World Games 2025

[Josh 13,429]

2 minutes ago, heywoodu said:

Just caught up with the lacrosse, and while the final itself had no excitement whatsoever, I still gotta admit it is quite fun to watch, looking forward to LA  

I expect it’ll be a lot closer at the Olympics. 
 

Edit: Well I mean I’d hope so, that was a pretty abysmal final, lasted until midway through the third until I switched it off 

Edited August 12, 2025 by Josh

[Josh 13,429]

Time wasting tactics from the  athlete up 2-0 in the men’s open ne-waza final… 

[Fer GUA 602]

In kickboxing both athletes from  advanced to Semifinals

 

 Soledad Aguilar 9 - 8 Szonja Torok 

 

 José Santiago 11 - 10 Martin Balint 

 

[Josh 13,429]

defeats 2-1 (7-2 in the shootout) for gold in women’s beach handball!  

 

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[heywoodu 16,434]

How can ski mountaineering be compared with orienteering? Is it roughly like a winter version (kind of like speed skating vs inline skating, not the same, but similarities), or just an entirely different kind of format?

 

Asking because I've never watched ski mountaineering and I sincerely hope it will be more watchable than the orienteering was here, where there were barely any split times shown, they kept randomly switching to people running in some spot and going back and so on. I think especially for a lesser known sport it is imperative to show it in such a way that new viewers can easily understand what's going on..

[Gianlu33 5,920]

7 minutes ago, heywoodu said:

How can ski mountaineering be compared with orienteering? Is it roughly like a winter version (kind of like speed skating vs inline skating, not the same, but similarities), or just an entirely different kind of format?

 

Asking because I've never watched ski mountaineering and I sincerely hope it will be more watchable than the orienteering was here, where there were barely any split times shown, they kept randomly switching to people running in some spot and going back and so on. I think especially for a lesser known sport it is imperative to show it in such a way that new viewers can easily understand what's going on..

Well no, it has absolutely nothing to do with it. The core of orienteering is to take a map, a compass and solve the problem by finding the checkpoints. It's a very logical sport.

 

Ski mountaineering, on the other hand, is a pure endurance sport. It involves going up mountains with crazy slopes on a pre-defined route and, except for the individual event, the races are against other people. The Olympic format is certainly not very appealing, the least traditional of all, but it is a sprint of about 5 minutes where you have to climb a slope on skis (and there is a downhill section, requiring you to wear skins under your skis).

[Gianlu33 5,920]

8 minutes ago, heywoodu said:

How can ski mountaineering be compared with orienteering? Is it roughly like a winter version (kind of like speed skating vs inline skating, not the same, but similarities), or just an entirely different kind of format?

 

Asking because I've never watched ski mountaineering and I sincerely hope it will be more watchable than the orienteering was here, where there were barely any split times shown, they kept randomly switching to people running in some spot and going back and so on. I think especially for a lesser known sport it is imperative to show it in such a way that new viewers can easily understand what's going on..

If you wanna take a look

 

Sprint events (Olympic format - with qualification + heats/semifinals/finals like in CC sprint):

 

Vertical events, the TRUE SkiMo 

 

 

[heywoodu 16,434]

10 minutes ago, Gianlu33 said:

Well no, it has absolutely nothing to do with it. The core of orienteering is to take a map, a compass and solve the problem by finding the checkpoints. It's a very logical sport.

 

Ski mountaineering, on the other hand, is a pure endurance sport. It involves going up mountains with crazy slopes on a pre-defined route and, except for the individual event, the races are against other people. The Olympic format is certainly not very appealing, the least traditional of all, but it is a sprint of about 5 minutes where you have to climb a slope on skis (and there is a downhill section, requiring you to wear skins under your skis).

Ah, and there's also ski orienteering then (not in the Olympics, but in existence)? Because I'm sure I have seen a few minutes once of a sport where athletes on skis had a map, but that wasn't really possible to follow who was doing well  

 

Ski mountaineering sounds a lot better to watch, thanks!

Edited August 12, 2025 by heywoodu

[Josh 13,429]

15 minutes ago, Gianlu33 said:

Well no, it has absolutely nothing to do with it. The core of orienteering is to take a map, a compass and solve the problem by finding the checkpoints. It's a very logical sport.

 

Ski mountaineering, on the other hand, is a pure endurance sport. It involves going up mountains with crazy slopes on a pre-defined route and, except for the individual event, the races are against other people. The Olympic format is certainly not very appealing, the least traditional of all, but it is a sprint of about 5 minutes where you have to climb a slope on skis (and there is a downhill section, requiring you to wear skins under your skis).

Great analysis, I will also add that after the downhill portion of the race, there’s a cross-country skiing component (it’s really short, athletes cross it in like 5 seconds) before you reach the finish line 

[El Analyzer 316]

I was thinking the scoring system of Boxing is the worst in sports ..until I watched Kickboxing