What's the political benefit of adding breaking? Or surfing? Or skateboarding? Or triathlon at some point?
I very much doubt it's that unpopular, given the quite large amount of positive reactions (not on a place like Totallympics, but that's far from an average when it comes to sports). Mostly I just heard and saw people saying something like "not sure it's a sport, but it was fun to watch".
I doubt it'll happen, simply because it might result in things like the heptathlon shot put....that's already not great to watch, but if the women suddenly have to throw an almost twice as heavy ball of metal I wonder if, say, 15 meters are even realistic...
The only thing I'd think about changing is the 400m hurdle height, they are just so low. It's no wonder the best female 400m hurdlers are relatively way better 400m runners than the best male 400m hurdlers. Making the weights in throwing events way heavier is just going to make for amateurish looking competition though.
I had never heard of HC Utah (and I am at least familiar with NHL names), but now I see those were the Arizona Coyotes
Kind of, you know, those US sports and their absolute cans of worms when it comes to teams changing cities and names but kind of remaining the same franchise or not or whatever
To be fair, cross-country running also isn't a summer sport. Like cyclo-cross, it's basically a season-independent sport, almost by definition it can be done in any and all conditions.
I don't think I'd go for it in the end, like @De_Gambassi said, it'd open up the way for lots and lots more and not sure that'd be a great idea.
Now, when gender equality is big thing - what do you think about idea of erasing women's world records in athletics throwing events and starting new era when women will be using men's equipment weights. This may be too radical (for example mens discus is two times heavier) but on the other hand it will resolve crazy unbeatable records (shot put) from steroid era.
I am quite curious if there already exist some world records (best performances) for women with mens weight equipment in throwing events. Maybe athletics will move towards this idea in the future...
I guess that including or excluding a sport is just a part of some bigger agenda. Political, economical and so on.
Sport itself is of lesser importance.
IOC wont mind a (un)popularity of a sport if they have a bigger cause to fullfil.
These are facts but on mainstream media its rarely seen.
Not really sure where else to put this but Matthew Richardson has switched nationalities from to
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