It seems to be entirely driven by time zone issues.
From the IOC's standpoint the whole reason to include cricket in the Olympics is to (vastly) increase the value of the TV deals from India. It isn't to grow the game in the US or w/e.
Tour moves on to Incheon, for the weekend. First heats in the early hours of tomorrow morning, at 01:30 and 11:30 in British Planetary Time.
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Because they want to be able to say they they respected the official athlete quota of (whatever the number is). Same reason for not counting alternates that will surely partecipate, it's not a practical matter but a political one.
This is what I dont get. If criquet is going to be held 4.000 KM away from the Olympic Village, why reduce the tournament into a 6 team event?
I get the reduced quotas for LA, but having a 10 team event in New York should be no problem. They should take advantage of having multiple host cities to manage athletes numbers better. Same thing for Softball, that is going to be host in another big city far away from LA....
Starts in two days, but there appears to still be a distinct lack of any kind of schedule...?
https://short-track.com/
What am I missing? @Josh Any chance you have more success in finding a schedule? There is no 'event page' or something, like you see in F1, MotoGP, every single FIS sport, etc. No menu, only a link to buy tickets, but...nothing else. Not even a start time (but of course we'd want to have the actual schedule and not just 'oh they start at 9-ish on Saturday morning').
Edit: the Speedskating Canada website isn't very helpful neither, although it does at least have a start time (but still no schedule that says exactly what's when). Also a 'Detailed schedule' button that leads back to the top of the page
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