Winter Olympic Games Milano Cortina 2026 News

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Preparing for the “IOC is killing sports” posts 

[stepansevs 219]

11 minutes ago, NearPup said:

So… news from the EB. Some Milan 2026 events got changed at the request of the FIS.

 

• Cross Country Skiing: all men’s and women’s events contested over the same distance
• Alpine Skiing: the combined is now a team event (one downhiller and one slalom specialist)
• Nordic Combined: the team event is replaced by the team sprint (LH/2x7.5km)
• Ski Jumping: the men’s team event is replaced by the so-called super team event with two athletes per team.

 

I hate the new ski jumping team event format. IMO the worst change the IOC has made to the Winter Olympics since I started following.

I hate it too and do not understand. We have around 6 team competition during season. It Is the one of the most attractive competition and they will  replace it by this shit?

[intoronto 6,904]

The change in Nordic Combined was needed otherwise there would be too low amount of nations competing. The IOC would use that to kick the sport of the program. Ski jumping 12*4 would =48/50 quotas, so that change had to be made too. 

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4 minutes ago, stepansevs said:

I hate it too and do not understand. We have around 6 team competition during season. It Is the one of the most attractive competition and they will  replace it by this shit?

It’s easier on the quota distribution likely. If they lower the max per NOC now, we shouldn’t lose too many nations.

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Men's 10km + 10km Skiathlon

Women's 10km + 10km Skiathlon

 

Men's Sprint Classic

Women's Sprint Classic

 

Men's Team Sprint Free

Women's Team Sprint Free

 

Men's 4 x 7.5km Relay

Women's 4 x 7.5km Relay

 

Men's 10km Free

Women's 10km Free

 

Men's 50km Mass Start Classic

Women's 50km Mass Start Classic

 

Final cross-country program

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just 

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2 hours ago, Olympian1010 said:

Preparing for the “IOC is killing sports” posts 

Can't kill something, that's already dead.

[Monzanator 5,124]

Ski jumping is shrinking with every season. Finland and Czech Republic are dead in the sport and minnows will always be minnows. I'm not surprised team event has been cut down to duets, FIS has no idea how to inject life into this sport and the recent cutdown of team quota in World Cup is pure desperation hoping that minnows will suddenly score points if Top 6 nations will have fewer eligible athletes.

 

I wonder when ski jumping will be axed from the Olympics and replaced by breakdance on snow/ice?

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26 minutes ago, Monzanator said:

I wonder when ski jumping will be axed from the Olympics and replaced by breakdance on snow/ice?

It’s probably fine for the time being. Ski Jumping still enjoys higher participation then some of the more niche freestyle events cough *aerials* cough. 

[Bearas 628]

40 minutes ago, Monzanator said:

Ski jumping is shrinking with every season. Finland and Czech Republic are dead in the sport and minnows will always be minnows. I'm not surprised team event has been cut down to duets, FIS has no idea how to inject life into this sport and the recent cutdown of team quota in World Cup is pure desperation hoping that minnows will suddenly score points if Top 6 nations will have fewer eligible athletes.

 

I wonder when ski jumping will be axed from the Olympics and replaced by breakdance on snow/ice?

It would be great as Lithuania might finally win their first winter Olympic medal.... If we could also remove luge and replace it with basketball on snow - it would be highly appreciated  

Edited June 20, 2023 by Bearas