Summer Olympic Games Paris 2024 Sports Programme

[Dragon 1,702]

1 hour ago, dcro said:

OCOG proposed sports do not count. They are designed as one-offs in theory.

Bicycle polo was on the schedule for 1916 but removed  for 1920.

Same thing for gliding in 1940

[Dragon 1,702]

1 hour ago, hckosice said:

yep, the only canoeing slalom thing we don't compete in. Yeah, Very kind from IOC 

Doesn't help that the Czech Republic are so good at it.

[rafalgorka 1,386]

1 hour ago, Olympian1010 said:

Yes, that’s less than ideal for most people. 

I wouldn’t just write the event off though. The men’s road race at the 2018 Asian Games only had 58 entries (with a max of 4 riders per team), and that is still one of the most entertaining races I’ve watched. 

But road cycling is pretty much team effort. And how many riders from one NOC will be allowed to start? I believe not 5 or not even 4, like in Tokyo. That is not enough. I would like to watch a great race with majority of best riders. There are so many good e.g. Belgian or even French riders that 3-men teams are too small. 130 riders in Tokyo will be ok. In Rio there were 144. Cutting down to 90 is very disappointing.

[phelps 6,893]

4 hours ago, dcro said:

Fun fact, is mixed team trap the first event ever to be removed before it was even held for the first time?

 

They started being proactive about removing Slovak events.

no, there's a full sport removed before its debut, Karate...  

[intoronto 4,252]

"the ISSF informed the IOC Executive Board that the most of the ISSF Executive Committee members, members of the Athletes Committee and Shotgun Committee were in favor of the Skeet Mixed Team to be included into the 2024 Games program."

 

https://www.issf-sports.org/news.ashx?newsid=3512

 

So why was trap proposed in the first place? 

[Olympian1010 7,483]

 

[dcro 10,182]

Mixed gender, mixed nationality team 50 km event?

Guess Dunfee is out of loop, huh? Even the IOC has come to its senses in this regard and has scratched mixed-NOC events from future YOGs.

[Dunadan 1,103]

I think Dunfee and other top racewalkers have been out of the loop for years. They knew their event was going to be cut, they should have tried to do everything they could in order to show that racewalking deserved one more event. What they did was continuing to oppose the introduction of any kind of technology that would have brought a bit more credibility to the judging and accepting to star in those ridiculous 1 km runner vs walker events. They should blame themselves before crying foul.

[Gianlu33 3,577]

8 hours ago, intoronto said:

"the ISSF informed the IOC Executive Board that the most of the ISSF Executive Committee members, members of the Athletes Committee and Shotgun Committee were in favor of the Skeet Mixed Team to be included into the 2024 Games program."

 

https://www.issf-sports.org/news.ashx?newsid=3512

 

So why was trap proposed in the first place? 

It was always known that the two events would alternate. In 2028 the mixed trap will return

[hckošice 13,275]

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