Your own programme for the 2030 French Alps Winter Olympics

[Swewi 505]

My proposal:

 

Skimo: Only a long distance race

 

Freestyle skiing: remove dual moguls or make it somehow different than regular moguls Like more focus in first to finish than technical score, otherwise it doesnt fit for a parallell format.

Remove team events in freestyle.

 

Alpine skiing: take back individual 

combined and remove the team event (but if they keep it, only allow one team/nation)

 

Curling: consider to include a singles skills event 

 

Cross country skiing: can be kept it as it is but if they would consider removing team sprint, replace with having one sprint of each style. They could also make 50 km as individual start, and skiathlon should change order of free/classical between each championship.

 

Luge/skeleton/bob: remove relays. There is already team events (2men/4men)

 

Figure skating: remove team event

 

Speed skating: replace team Pursuit with a relaty format. Remove mass start.

 

Short track: remove some events, maybe relay, maybe 1000m or something.

 

Biathlon: like the current programme but to be honest (and my proposal might be controversial) the Pursuit is maybe the best event showtime who is best actuslly over 6 shootings and in a combination of individual start and head to head but it is strange to give out medals for both sprint and for a following race with handicap start. Like the winner of round Robin curling would get a gold and then a new good in playoffs. Why not have a Pursuit based on a shooting contest or something instead of a previous medal event?

 

Consider to include new sport: Bandy

[avlar 585]

Just use Top Gear Winter Olympics special ))

 

 

[Gianlu33 5,998]

Alpine skiing (10)

- reinstating the 2022 programme without the mixed team;

 

Biathlon (12 +1)

- add single mixed relay

 

Bobsleigh (4)

- Create strict rules for bobsleighs, to reward driving more and reduce the burden of material development.

 

Cross-country skiing (12)

- Drop women's 50km, add women's 30km

 

Curling (3)

- no changes

 

Figure skating (5)

- no changes

 

Freestyle skiing (16 +1)

- add mixed skicross team

 

Ice hockey (2)

- Remove the 3vs3 rule in the knockout stage

 

Luge (5)

- no changes

 

Nordic combined (6 +3)

- drop men's NH Gundersen

- add men's/women's NH Mass Start

- add women's LH HGundersen

- add women's NH team relay

 

Short-track speed skating (9)

- no changes

 

Skeleton (3)

- no changes

 

Ski jumping (7 +1)

- drop men's super team

- add men's & women's team

 

Ski mountaineering (6 +3)

- add M/W vertical e M/W individual

- drop mixed sprint relay

 

Snowboarding (15 +2)

- add M/W PSL

 

Speed skating (16 +2)

- add M/W team sprint

 

 

New sports:

 

Speed skating (2)

- M/W event

 

Freeriding (4)

- W/M snowboard

- W/M ski freestyle

 

TOTAL: 135 +19

[Grassmarket 4,269]

My proposal for 2034: Joint Hosts  & .  Norway for the outdoor events.  Britain for the indoor events, plus Britain builds a bob track and speed skating arena (possibly a temporary conversion of an Amazon warehouse)

[SalamAkhi 359]

I'm not against team events or even mixed team events, but I think they need to be more than the sum of individual performances. So relays are fine (including team event in luge), team pursuit too, team event in skeleton is ok cause you have this different type of start though I would prefer the luge system (with a chip instead of this board you definitely can't touch in skeleton ?). Rest needs to be rethought at least.

And rules need to be coherent between the sports regarding how many teams you can enter, why is it 4 duos in alpine combined event and only 1 in CC team sprint ? 2 would be my limit for dual events, even in sports where they usually don't enter more than one team in WC events. 

 

Alpine skiing (10)

 

No changes.

 

Biathlon (11 -> 9)

 

- Mixed relay

+ Single mixed relay.

Agree with De_Gambassi, different format from the gender relays, increased chances for weaker nations to compete even if we would have two teams for some countries.

- Both pursuits.

I've seen several people complain about how tired the athletes were by the end of the Games during the mass-starts. Thing is these are the same people that are adamant on keeping the pursuit in the program. Either ditch them or treat the sprint as a qualification round. You would then have one individual races, one MS and one "exciting" double-event.

 

Bobsleigh (4)

 

No changes. Max 2 teams per country.

 

Cross-country skiing (12 -> 11)

 

- Both team sprints.

+ Mixed team sprint. 

Same idea as in biathlon. Like some I'm all for a real sprint and not the dull attrition races we witnessed in Val di Fiemme. Freestyle is mandatory, can be uphill/downhill but not longer than 1'30. 

- 50km W

+ 30km W

 

Curling (3)

 

 

No changes.

 

 

Figure skating (5 -> 3)

 

- Team event. 

Awful ranking system.

- Ice dance. 

"Dance", enough said.

 

Freestyle skiing (15)

 

- Team aerials.

+ Ski-cross mixed event.
Ideally luge-like with immediate start after your teammate crossed the finish line. Alternate M-W order between the rounds. In snowboard cross men were almost useless all day long.

 

Ice hockey (2)

 

No changes.

 

Luge (6)

 

No changes.

 

Nordic combined (3 -> 4)

 

+ Gundersen NH W

- Gundersen NH M

+ Mass-start LH M

- Team event

+ Mixed team event

 

Short-track speed skating (9)

 

No changes.

 

Skeleton (3)

 

 No changes.

 

Ski jumping (6 -> 5)

 

- Super team M

 

Ski mountaineering (3)

 

- Both sprints

+ Both individuals

 

Snowboarding (11)

 

No changes.

 

Speed skating (14)

 

- Mass-start in the current format is shite

+ (Re)introduce an allround competition inspired by track cycling's omnium (first version). So a couple of individual races (500 and 3000 ?), an elimination race, a points races to end it. 

(-) This would be endurance based so maybe ditch 3000/5000.