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1 hour ago, JoshMartini007 said:

Sailing is fine. There are so many sports which basically have one athlete per event. Using that logic rowing would be in much more danger.

 

All sports have their pros and cons, but when it comes down to it, it is very difficult to find enough people to vote something out which is why only baseball/softball was cut in the last 100 years. Even then, it looks like baseball/softball will show up whenever the host country wants it.

technically that's not correct, the IOC officially dropped wrestling from the program back in 2013. 

 

the iOC under Rogge had a different rule (which I think was enforced just once before king Tommy marching in with his optional host sports idea), they had to drop a sport to make room for another one. that was mandatory 

 

few months later they had to vote about the new sport, which wrestling won by defeating other candidates like Squash and Baseball/softball . so technically wrestling was out of the program for few months.

 

back then the IOC had a clear and transparent process about this, (not great but at least transparent) before a certain dictator makes everything behind-the-closed-door-kind-of-thing

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7 minutes ago, MHSN said:

technically that's not correct, the IOC officially dropped wrestling from the program back in 2013. 

 

the iOC under Rogge had a different rule (which I think was enforced just once before king Tommy marching in with his optional host sports idea), they had to drop a sport to make room for another one. that was mandatory 

 

few months later they had to vote about the new sport, which wrestling won by defeating other candidates like Squash and Baseball/softball . so technically wrestling was out of the program for few months.

 

back then the IOC had a clear and transparent process about this, (not great but at least transparent) before a certain dictator makes everything behind-the-closed-door-kind-of-thing

Rogge also was a proponent of less sports and not in favor of extended program

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8 minutes ago, MHSN said:

technically that's not correct, the IOC officially dropped wrestling from the program back in 2013. 

 

the iOC under Rogge had a different rule (which I think was enforced just once before king Tommy marching in with his optional host sports idea), they had to drop a sport to make room for another one. that was mandatory 

 

few months later they had to vote about the new sport, which wrestling won by defeating other candidates like Squash and Baseball/softball . so technically wrestling was out of the program for few months.

 

back then the IOC had a clear and transparent process about this, (not great but at least transparent) before a certain dictator makes everything behind-the-closed-door-kind-of-thing

I still subscribe to the conspiracy theory that wrestling was safe as long as it conceded to the IOC's demands, but you are correct wrestling was voted out, but only because something had to go. Baseball/softball actually met the threshold to be removed.

 

Hopefull Coventry makes it more transparent. At the very least, applicant cities should disclose which optional sports would be added if they were to be chosen.

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France has been putting money in to their national programs so can’t see them wanting it cut for 2030. 

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6 minutes ago, George_D said:

Rogge also was a proponent of less sports and not in favor of extended program

To be fair, Rogge inherited an IOC whose predecessor expanded the Olympics from 27 disciplines to 40 during his reign

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11 minutes ago, JoshMartini007 said:

To be fair, Rogge inherited an IOC whose predecessor expanded the Olympics from 27 disciplines to 40 during his reign

Yes but rouge was of different "ideology" and I fully supported him