Summer Olympic Games Paris 2024 Sports Programme

[dcro 10,210]

1 hour ago, hckosice said:

and the first starts to sound loudly

 

Jiří Prskavec the czech canoe Slalom K1 world champion already expressed his negative attitude towards the new Olympic event Kayak-Cross.

 

according to him, the "extreme slalom" has not developed anywhere in the last four years

 

"if there will be no extra quotas, the only athletes who will qualify will be obviously only canoe slalom specialists, the extreme slalom specialists who would be better in this will have to stay at home. So it will be just a sort of an extra discipline for us canoe slalomers, which we do not like or really practice."

 

 

From Czech Sport site https://www.sport.cz/ostatni/ostatni/clanek/1906160-zmeny-na-olympiade-konci-tradicni-disciplina-ale-ceske-nadeje-posili-bude-se-i-tancit.html

Highly doubtful. There will almost certainly be some places reserved for CSLX, with double startes being allowed to enter as well.

[rafalgorka 1,520]

I wonder how the cycling road route in Paris 2024 will look like? Finish on Champs Elysee is obvious, but what else? Race for sprinters only or any possible small climbs on the way? What do you think?

[phelps 7,674]

44 minutes ago, rafalgorka said:

I wonder how the cycling road route in Paris 2024 will look like? Finish on Champs Elysee is obvious, but what else? Race for sprinters only or any possible small climbs on the way? What do you think?

if they don't build some artificial hills around the city, I doubt there's a single point all around not featuring a true Sprinters' festival in 2024...

[rafalgorka 1,520]

Maybe they go through Montmartre, they could find short hilly streets there 

[ahjfcshfghb 287]

If anyone's interested I just wrote a review of the 2024 sports programme in Around The Rings. Would love to know your thoughts, I tried to keep it somewhat balanced 

http://aroundtherings.com/site/A__101937/Title__Paris-2024-Sport-Program-A-Young-Persons-Review/292/Articles

[Olympian1010 7,973]

56 minutes ago, ahjfcshfghb said:

If anyone's interested I just wrote a review of the 2024 sports programme in Around The Rings. Would love to know your thoughts, I tried to keep it somewhat balanced 

http://aroundtherings.com/site/A__101937/Title__Paris-2024-Sport-Program-A-Young-Persons-Review/292/Articles

Are you working for ATR nowadays, or are you just free-lancing from time to time?

 

Fantastic article by the way 

[phelps 7,674]

58 minutes ago, ahjfcshfghb said:

If anyone's interested I just wrote a review of the 2024 sports programme in Around The Rings. Would love to know your thoughts, I tried to keep it somewhat balanced 

http://aroundtherings.com/site/A__101937/Title__Paris-2024-Sport-Program-A-Young-Persons-Review/292/Articles

nice and interesting article...

 

but...

 

but, tbh, I think you've been too soft versus the IOC's enormous mistakes and hipocrisy...

 

I'm not going to repeat myself making this post a pamphlet against the IOC's silly moves of the entire Rogge + Bach tenures, but I must say that I don't agree with the last sentence, too...there's nothing fascinating in watching something you've loved so much being deprived, dismantled, distroyed like Tokyo 2020 and even more Paris 2024 are gonna do...

 

I just don't feel any hype for those "new Games", I'm only very, very sad about what's going on...

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48 minutes ago, Olympian1010 said:

Are you working for ATR nowadays, or are you just free-lancing from time to time?

 

Fantastic article by the way 

Thanks! Just free-lancing, I kind of just write them whenever I get an idea. Really if you or anyone else here would like to publish in ATR sometime, I'm happy to try and put you in touch, so do let me know. They're real nice and you get paid $100 per article. 

34 minutes ago, phelps said:

nice and interesting article...

 

but...

 

but, tbh, I think you've been too soft versus the IOC's enormous mistakes and hipocrisy...

 

I'm not going to repeat myself making this post a pamphlet against the IOC's silly moves of the entire Rogge + Bach tenures, but I must say that I don't agree with the last sentence, too...there's nothing fascinating in watching something you've loved so much being deprived, dismantled, distroyed like Tokyo 2020 and even more Paris 2024 are gonna do...

 

I just don't feel any hype for those "new Games", I'm only very, very sad about what's going on...

I hear you. I was considering making it a hit-piece but it's a bit hard to do as someone just starting out. But you know, maybe you could write! Perhaps not in ATR but in your local newspaper or start a blog or something. Honestly my inspiration to write was to share many of the feelings people had here so readers could think a bit more critically about what the IOC does.

I've always thought 'fascinating' can mean captivating either in a good or bad way. Murder mysteries are fascinating but you wouldn't want them to occur again... haha

[rafalgorka 1,520]

@ahjfcshfghb

 

the article is very good. I only wish you wrote something about cycling men's road race - 90 riders in a race is not enough. I understand they try to change something, but they shouldn't mess with the most classic events, the core of the games. A race with 150 riders would be much more interesting.

 

But anyway, I hope that both Tokyo and Paris will be fascinating to watch, too.

[phelps 7,674]

13 hours ago, ahjfcshfghb said:

I hear you. I was considering making it a hit-piece but it's a bit hard to do as someone just starting out. But you know, maybe you could write! Perhaps not in ATR but in your local newspaper or start a blog or something. Honestly my inspiration to write was to share many of the feelings people had here so readers could think a bit more critically about what the IOC does.

I've always thought 'fascinating' can mean captivating either in a good or bad way. Murder mysteries are fascinating but you wouldn't want them to occur again... haha

naaa...writing is definitely not my best skill...

 

by the way, about the word "fascinating" it's highly likely you're right, and I've been a bit misinterpretating it because of the Italian meaning of the correspondent word (which is normally only referred to "captivating in a good way", we have other words when we want to give a negative meaning to the sentence)...

 

p.s. I understand you couldn't go down too hard because of the platform you're writing on...

still, I'm heavily infuenced by my absolutely negative opinion on what the IOC is doing in the last 15 years or so...and therefore sometimes I can be very, very harsh with them...

as I wrote many times, I feel just like a baby whose favourite toy has been broken/taken away...