Things You Would Change in Sports?

[Faramir 458]

- 3 weeks Olympics and more quotas
- qualification systems in all sports mainly based on rankings of 2 years of "world cups" + world and continental championships. Top 8 athletes guaranteed to qualify with a limit of 4 per country. Heavy use of rankings also in team sports. Less knock out tournaments.
- require every international federation to set a clear rulebook, "code of points", "example cases" to be admitted to the Olympics- there must be nearly always a consensus between officials on who is the winner, how an action should be judged, etc.

 

In general:
- less amateurism in running world-level competitions;

- stricter antidoping rules for elite athletes

[Faramir 458]

7 hours ago, rajiv said:

Every Olympic medal event must have the support of a minimum  of 10% of all NOCs (currently that's 21 countries))

Which olympic events would have less than 21 NOCs "supporting" them?

[heywoodu 16,144]

Starting off entirely unrealistic, but oh well  Every international sports federation should broadcast their events live and non-geoblocked on YouTube. Not on their own fancy channels, not on all kinds of alternatives, but on YouTube: accessible to everyone, it has all the basic controls many of their own players lack (like basic hotkey functionality), can easily be streamed to whichever device and - importantly - is super easy to watch both live, after a pause and when the entire event has ended.

 

Also, race walking should have a longer event, say 50km or so. If not more, Evan Dunfee once argued a 100km would be amazing (but not on the same mentally deadly 2km lap).

[heywoodu 16,144]

Track cycling should get an all-round medal event event, of course besides several sprint and endurance events in both single and mass start formats.

[heywoodu 16,144]

Oh, and arguably my biggest annoyance in all of sports, which should absolutely be changed: the pursuit and sprint in biathlon should not in any way be two separate medal events. I don't care how it's solved exactly, but it is utter bullshit that a bad result in one individual medal event can completely destroy your chances in another, separate individual medal event (or even keep you from participating in that one altogether).

 

"So you just need to make sure you have a good sprint."

 

Yeah, that's the point. You simply should not depend on having a good result in Olympic medal event A, just to even stand a chance in Olympic medal event B. Just scrap the pursuit altogether or maybe have like a one-lap qualifier on race day (not as a separate medal event, obviously), but the current situation is just ridiculous.

[TeamGB 215]

Reform all qualification systems to be less focused on continental representation, or expand the number of quotas in certain events.

Allow a maximum of 3 entrants in each swimming event, 2 for other sports such as judo or boxing.

Introduce a points based scoring table like the one seen in athletics, (alongside the medal table), which may encourage some nations to send all qualified athletes, not just medal contenders.

[Jur 689]

The marathon event is the most iconic Olympic event and all NOCs should have an entry in that race.

Edited May 31, 2024 by Jur

[mpjmcevoy 375]

1 hour ago, heywoodu said:

Track cycling should get an all-round medal event event, of course besides several sprint and endurance events in both single and mass start formats.

You could go all in here, in a good way

 

Introduce two new events : The "Swift" a kind of a one day Sprint omnium of flying lap, match sprint (done like placings races), keirin and Kilo/500 and the one day " Enduro "which would be broadly the current omnium, then refashion the "Omnium" as a seven event all round test over two-three days with IP, reverse Devil (winner of each sprint eliminated with top available points) and an equivalent of the beep test which will quickly earn the nickname "the Rack",  included...

[heywoodu 16,144]

2 minutes ago, mpjmcevoy said:

You could go all in here, in a good way

 

Introduce two new events : The "Swift" a kind of a one day Sprint omnium of flying lap, match sprint (done like placings races), keirin and Kilo/500 and the one day " Enduro "which would be broadly the current omnium, then refashion the "Omnium" as a seven event all round test over two-three days with IP, reverse Devil (winner of each sprint eliminated with top available points) and an equivalent of the beep test which will quickly earn the nickname "the Rack",  included...

 

 

I'd rather just see the omnium be made into an all-round event I think  

[mpjmcevoy 375]

14 hours ago, NearPup said:

Going to mostly limit this to the Olympics.

 

• Expand the Summer Olympics to three weeks to allow for more athletes / sports / events without balloning costs.
• Specifically, have a rotation of which athletes are there. I like the idea of having one week tentpolled by swimming, one week tentpolled by Gymnastics and one week tentpolled by Athletics.
• Eliminate Modern Pentathlon from the Olympics
• Expand the athlete quota for the Winter Olympics to around 3,500, reverse athlete quota cuts and add some new non-traditional sports (especially ice climbing, cross country running, cyclocross and snow volleyball) to add appeal for more non-traditional winter sports countries.
• Obviously, lets also expand the program for the Winter Olympics to include things like freeride, rail jam and a team moguls event :D

 

And the big one:

• Create a "mind and skill sport" Olympic games, name still a work in progress. Would be a home for stuff like e-sports, chess, go, bowling, cue sports, perhaps even motorsports.

Almost agree entirely, but not on cue sports - my feeling is that the definition of winter sports should be extended to include

- 'chamber' sports - that is sports designed specifically for indoor areans out of the elements, not just those that have kind of ended up there like judo and badminton, but sports to which being indoors is intrinsic, that have an almost clubroom/parlour game quality - and that's where cue sports - and darts - come in

- winter disciplines - events generally and habitually  played in poor, wintery conditions, but not necessarily snow and ice - two obvious ones are cyclocross and cross country running