Your own programme for the 2030 French Alps Winter Olympics

[De_Gambassi 1,363]

Alpine skiing (10)

 

*No changes. I don't regret neither the old combined events, nor the team event. I think we have the best possible outcome now. Schedule could be revisited though.

 

Biathlon (11)

 

* Single mixed relay instead of regular mixed relay. If you want a third relay, let's have one with a different format. Two teams per country

 

Bobsleigh (4 -> 3)

 

* Drop that Monobob nonsense. It's ok, if we don't have the exact same number of events between males and females. Two teams per country (sorry Germany), push for standardized bobsleighs in two-woman and two-men.

 

Cross-country skiing (12 -> 14)

 

 

* Have both free and classical sprint events

* Make sure you have real sprint courses, and no Klaebo-sprint courses

 

 

Curling (3)

 

*As a pure two-weeks-every-four-years curling guy, I prefer the mixed format over the longest one, but I assume purists will disagree, so it's ok 

 

Figure skating (5 -> 4)

 

*Drop the team event or come with something better. As it stands, it's too much artificial.

 

Freestyle skiing (15 -> 13)

 

 

* Remove aerials altogether. It was ok to have gymnasts doing crazy stuff on air for a time, but with the inclusion of other crazy stuff from actual skiers, it became pointless

* Keep dual moguls, but tweak it so that speed becomes way more prevalent

* Add mixed skicross event

 

 

Ice hockey (2)

 

- ok -

 

Luge (5)

 

* Drop the women's double, not competitive enough.

 

Nordic combined (3 -> 4)

 

* Keept it !

* Add one women's events, no need for more

* Make one of the men's event a Mass Start

* Add one woman to the relay

 

Short-track speed skating (9)

 

- ok -

 

Skeleton (3)

 

- ok -

 

Ski jumping (6 -> 5)

 

* Have only one mixed team event and that's it.

 

Ski mountaineering (3 -> 5)

 

* Make it a core sport ! (I believe it brings enough variety to the program to keep it for good)

* Have sprint events ont the longest relay course

* Add individual events

 

Snowboarding (11 -> 14)

 

* Add a parallel slalom team event

* Add freeride events

 

Speed skating (14 -> 13)

 

* Drop the Mass Start, it's not your sport ! 

* Bring an all-around team event, or possibly both individual all-around events if the athletes are up for it. 

 

Bandy (as an additional sport) (0-1)

 

* Men only, and if it makes sense for the host country.

 

 

TOTAL: 116 -> 118/119

[Roamingrover86 952]

42 minutes ago, De_Gambassi said:

Bandy (as an additional sport) (0-1)

 

* Men only, and if it makes sense for the host country.

Yes please! This will be a welcome addition & much deserved.

[Adriano 830]

*Ice hockey - adding 3x3 version like 3x3 basketball, and 1-2 places reserved for "non-hockey" countries  (not represented at OG last 3 editions) * curling -  add 2 places (from 10 to 12) to add the same 3x3 basketball rule. New possibiliies / new markets * Nordic Combined - full support for women's event and I like idea for ski jumping as a second *ski jumping - team (2 person) for women's  men's and mixed event. *Alpine skiing - remove team event or change format plus reduce places *FigureSkating - add synchronising figure skating  for 8 teams * Limit some freestyle skiing / snowboard to smallest number like 16/24 competitors and max 2 per nation / *add Ice cross, Ice climbing *cross-country skiing -  4x3,5 km or less instead of 4x7,5km *speed skating - Mass Start as a point races like in cycling track, I hate this format.  Plus add team sprint.

[phelps 8,629]

my 2 cents (just to play...dreaming is free for all )

 

 

 Alpine skiing (8)

- get rid of the mixed team combined

 

Biathlon (9)

- get rid of the pursuit (unfair to base it on a previous sprint result)

- instead have qualifying rounds for the Mass Start races (which should be open to all the athletes competing, still with the 4-per-nation limit, of course)

 

Bobsleigh (2)

- women's monobob and men's 2-man bob away

- maximum of 2 sleds per NOC

- all bobsleds must be the same for every team, managed only by the International Federation (like the boats in Sailing at the Summer Games)

 

Cross-country skiing (10)

- reinstate the old women's distance races (10/15/30km), as the 50km still doesn't have enough good competitors

- 30/50km in interval starts

- team sprint away

- Individual sprint must be a real sprint: 1000m, no up- and downhills, just a flat course and always in freestyle (if it's a sprint, it must be the quickest possible, technique included)

 

Curling (3)

- no major changes, just add a couple of teams to the mixed event

 

Figure skating (3)

- team event and ice dance away (Gala, too)

 

Freestyle skiing (10)

- remove aerials completely and dual moguls

 

Ice hockey (2)

- no changes

 

Luge (4)

- team event away; 2 sleds per NOC (and at least 20 pairs) in women's doubles

 

Nordic combined (0)

- away

 

Short-track speed skating (9)

- no changes on the program; hopefully, many changes in the races' judgment

 

Skeleton (2)

- team event away

 

Ski jumping (4)

- Large Hill only, Individual and "super team" events for men and women

 

Ski mountaineering (5)

- 2x vertical race, 2x individual, 1x mixed team relay (2 men and 2 women per team)

- remove that farce named sprint races

 

Snowboarding (12)

- Snowboardcross team event away

- add PSL men and women

 

Speed skating (12-14)

- make the team pursuit longer and with 4 riders per team (at least 4, maybe even 5km)

- get rid of the mass start races as they are now; possibly add true Marathon races (60km women, 80km men minimum) with no loughable intermediate sprints

 

 

New sports:

 

Alpine (formerly Natural Track) Luge (3)

- men and women's singles, open doubles

 

Ski Orienteering (5)

- 2x sprint, 2x long distance, 1x mixed team

 

 

TOTAL: 101-103 

Edited 2 hours ago by phelps

[Adriano 830]

@phelpsphelps I hope Coventry will rule longer instead of you. Gala was great.

[intoronto 6,830]

Yea gala in the grand scheme does nothing and is a revenue generator

[NearPup 4,120]

Alpine Skiing

Return of the team parallel event

 

Biathlon

No change

 

Bobsleigh

Remove the two-man and just have monotone and four-man for both genders.

 

Cross country skiing

No change

 

Curling

No change

 

Figure Skating

No change

 

Freestyle Skiing

Add mixed ski cross team event, mixed dual moguls team event, and a rail event

 

Ice hockey

No change (yet)

 

 

Luge

No change

 

Nordic combined

Men’s team event back to four athletes

Add one women’s individual event

Add a mixed team event

 

Short track

No change

 

Skeleton

No change

 

Ski jumping

Men’s team event back to 4 athletes per team

Add women’s team event

 

Ski mountaineering

Add individual and vertical races

 

Snowboarding

Add PSL

Add a mixed team parallel event

Add rail event

 

Speed skating

Remove the women’s 3000m and add a women’s 10000m

Add the team sprint

 

New Sports

Cross country running

Men’s and women’s individual and team events, mixed relay

 

Cyclocross

Men’s and women’s individual

 

Freeride

men’s and women’s ski

men’s and women’s snowboard

 

Ice climbing

men’s and women’s speed

men’s and women’s lead

 

[phelps 8,629]

1 hour ago, Adriano said:

@phelpsphelps I hope Coventry will rule longer instead of you. Gala was great.

luckily for all of us (myself included, I don't want to get mad), I will never rule on anything anywhere (not even at home)