Olympic sports program review

[heywoodu 14,768]

8 hours ago, NearPup said:

A lot of Europeans are really mad that there is *ONE* Olympic sport that they are the worst continent in.

Most Europeans really don't care. Like, at all. A very large majority might very vaguely know surfing is Olympic, but that's about it.

 

Also, there's really not a 'European identity' in sports or anything, like Germans cheering for French against a South American team, or Norwegians cheering for Italians against an Asian team or something.

Edited 12 hours ago by heywoodu

[Grassmarket 3,301]

9 hours ago, heywoodu said:

So from a certain moment in time (now? 2000? 1960?) sports should not be added anymore, no matter if the world of sports changes?

They can add sports but not take them away.

[De_Gambassi 1,190]

21 minutes ago, heywoodu said:

Most Europeans really don't care. Like, at all. A very large majority might very vaguely know surfing is Olympic, but that's about it.

 

Also, there's really not a 'European identity' in sports or anything, like Germans cheering for French against a South American team, or Norwegians cheering for Italians against an Asian team or something.

If anything, that's more the other way around 

[heywoodu 14,768]

5 minutes ago, Grassmarket said:

They can add sports but not take them away.

But you do realise it's in no way feasible to have it that way, right?  

 

Once a sport is added, it has a permanent place in the Olympics as long as the Olympics exist? We'd end up with a 6 week Olympics at some point in time.

[JoshMartini007 2,507]

Yeah, the sport/event program needs to be able to change as trends and interest change.

 

With that said, once an event is added it should stay for a while (only exception is demonstration events). The addition/removal of an event should be a well thoughtful and researched process and not be done on a whim.

[intoronto 5,481]

4 minutes ago, JoshMartini007 said:

Yeah, the sport/event program needs to be able to change as trends and interest change.

 

With that said, once an event is added it should stay for a while (only exception is demonstration events). The addition/removal of an event should be a well thoughtful and researched process and not be done on a whim.

Yea not a big fan of the one offs. At a minimum 2 to 3 cycles for the individual sports. 

[heywoodu 14,768]

32 minutes ago, JoshMartini007 said:

Yeah, the sport/event program needs to be able to change as trends and interest change.

 

With that said, once an event is added it should stay for a while (only exception is demonstration events). The addition/removal of an event should be a well thoughtful and researched process and not be done on a whim.

Agreed. Which is why I'd like for demonstration sports to be there again, including real coverage and everything, since that would open things up a bit more for adding sports for one Olympics without people expecting it to stick around necessarily.