Freestyle Skiing at the Winter Olympic Games Milano Cortina 2026

[copravolley 643]

15 minutes ago, phelps said:

good question!

ask the IOC and their "youth and urban" obsession 

How many of these types of events were there in 1994, and how many are there now? For me, the more disciplines with judges in the lead role, the worse it gets, for example, diving in the summer.

[hckošice 16,630]

9 minutes ago, NearPup said:

You would be very unpopular with free skiers and snowboarders (and fans who watch those events).

 

 

The big criticism of big air from both is that it doesn’t reward variety and style enough, people would riot if you could win gold by repeating the same trick twice :P

The reality is that in fact park & pipe events are really not so popular and so highly estimated outside of north america and NZ/AUS. Here they are quite overlooked as unnecessarily forced events to please the rich north american and Australian markets, which at some point is understandable.

 

In fact if they were all removed from the program, only a very small part of european populaton will be outraged I imagine. In Slovakia probably nobody would even notice  but thats another question, here people thing Olympics are hockey tournament and are shocked to see there also some weird skating or skiing sports in TV between the matches too 

Edited February 16 by hckošice

[NearPup 4,184]

1 minute ago, hckošice said:

The reality is that in fact park y pipe events are really not popular and highly estimated outside of north america and NZ/AUS. Here they are quite overlooked as unnecessarily forced events to please the rich north american and Australian markets, which at some point is understandable.

 

In fact if they were all removed from the program, only a very small part of european populaton will be outraged I imagine. In Slovakia probably nobody would even notice  but thats another question, here people thing Olympics are hockey tournament and are shocked to see there also some weird skating or skiing sports in TV between the matches too 

Europeans need to remember that they are one market for the Olympics, not the only market...

 

Because if we were to remove sports that are only popular in Europe we can do a lot of cuts in both the summer and winter games.

Edited February 16 by NearPup

[copravolley 643]

6 minutes ago, hckošice said:

The reality is that in fact park & pipe events are really not so popular and so highly estimated outside of north america and NZ/AUS. Here they are quite overlooked as unnecessarily forced events to please the rich north american and Australian markets, which at some point is understandable.

 

In fact if they were all removed from the program, only a very small part of european populaton will be outraged I imagine. In Slovakia probably nobody would even notice  but thats another question, here people thing Olympics are hockey tournament and are shocked to see there also some weird skating or skiing sports in TV between the matches too 

For me sport should have clear and simple rules, like alpine skiing: who is fastest- wins. And all those acrobatics on snow are essentially the same as figure skating. The difference is that figure skating has over 100 years of Olympic tradition and these snow jumps. etc began to be introduced en masse into the Olympic program in the early 21st century. Let it be in the games program, but no more than 4-5 events, like in figure skating. That's simply too much for me.

Edited February 16 by copravolley

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9 minutes ago, NearPup said:

Big air and aerials are genuinely more different from each other than downhill and slalom are.

Yes, sticks 😄

[NearPup 4,184]

Actually this gives me the idea that a combined aerials / big air competition would be hilarious, would make later day men's alpine combined look good by comparaison.

[hckošice 16,630]

4 minutes ago, NearPup said:

Europeans need to remember that they are one market for the Olympics, not the only market...

 

Because if we were to remove sports that are only popular in Europe we can do a lot of cuts in both the summer and winter games.

Did not want to start a war 

 

Just tried to explain how it is viewed here, personally I do not care, I am happy, the most events the best I always try to watch everything even if I understand absolutely nothing  (like here for example but I like all the jumps and turns etc) 

[NearPup 4,184]

Just now, hckošice said:

Did not want to start a war 

 

Just tried to explain how it is viewed here, personally I do not care, I am happy, the most events the best I always try to watch everything even if I understand absolutely nothing  (like here for example but I like all the jumps and turns etc) 

FWIW I keep the same energy for people say that "niche" (from a NA POV) sports like ski jumping, luge, handball or field hockey should be removed from the Olympics.

[hckošice 16,630]

1 minute ago, hckošice said:

Did not want to start a war 

 

Just tried to explain how it is viewed here, personally I do not care, I am happy, the most events the best I always try to watch everything even if I understand absolutely nothing  (like here for example but I like all the jumps and turns etc) 

For example I really liked the Dual Moguls 

 

The judging was a bit surprising to me though 

[hckošice 16,630]

Just now, NearPup said:

FWIW I keep the same energy for people say that "niche" (from a NA POV) sports like ski jumping, luge, handball or field hockey should be removed from the Olympics.

well field hockey hmm, I don´t mind. what a dumb method to play hockey