Your own Winter Olympic Games Programme

[ahjfcshfghb 287]

It's weird, but so far, I like all the Winter events. Even the mixed curling has (albeit not nearly as much) entertainment value to it. 

Summer Olympics, on the other hand.. Just you wait.

Alpine Skiing [11]

• Slalom (m/w)
• Giant Slalom (m/w)
• Super-G (m/w)
• Downhill (m/w)
• Combined (m/w)
• Team Event (mixed)

Biathlon [11]

• Sprint (m/w)
• Pursuit (m/w)
• Individual (m/w)
• Mass Start (m/w)
• Team Relay (m/w/mixed)

Bobsleigh [3]

• Two-man/woman (m/w)
• Four-man (open)

Cross-Country Skiing [12]

• 15/10km Freestyle (m/w)
• 30/15km Skiathlon (m/w)
• 50/30km Classical (m/w)
• 4x10/5km Relay (m/w)
• Individual Sprint (m/w)
• Team Sprint (m/w)
• Mixed Relay (mixed)

Curling [3]

• Tournament (m/w)
• Mixed Doubles (mixed)

Figure Skating [5]

• Singles (m/w)
• Pairs (mixed)
• Ice Dancing (mixed)
• Team Event (mixed)

Freestyle Skiing [10]

• Aerials (m/w)
• Moguls (m/w)
• Halfpipe (m/w)
• Slopestyle (m/w)
• Ski Cross (m/w)
• Big Air (m/w)
• Ski Ballet (m/w/whoever is interested)

Ice Hockey [2]

• Tournament (m/w)

Luge [4]

• Singles (m/w)
• Doubles (open)
• Team Relay (mixed)

Nordic Combined [3]

• Individual Normal Hill/10km (m)
• Individual Large Hill/10km (m)
• Team Large Hill/4x5km Relay (m)
• Women's Event (eventually)

Short Track Speed Skating [8]

• 500m (m/w)
• 1000m (m/w)
• 1500m (m/w)
• 3000m Super Final (m/w)
• 5000m/3000m Relay (m/w)

Skeleton [2]

• Singles (m/w)

Ski Jumping [4]

• Normal Hill (m/w)
• Large Hill (m/w)
• Large Hill Team (m/w)
• Ski Flying (m)

Snowboarding [10]

• Halfpipe (m/w)
• Slopestyle (m/w)
• Big Air (m/w)
• Parallel Giant Slalom (m/w)
• Snowboard Cross (m/w)

Speed Skating [14]

• 500m (m/w)
• 1000m (m/w)
• 1500m (m/w)
• 3000m (w)
• 5000m (m/w)
• 10,000m (m)
• Mass Start (m/w)
• Team Pursuit (m/w)

Additional Sport [8]

• Synchronized Skating (open)
• Bandy (m/w)
• Telemark Sprint (m/w)
• Speed Skiing (m/w)
• Mountaineering (m/w)
• Ice Climbing (m/w)
• Orienteering (m/w)
• Winter Triathlon (m/w)

 

Total medal events: 113 in 23 sports

Total athletes: 3300

Days of competition: 21 (including Day -1 and Day 0 before the Opening Ceremony)

Edited January 9, 2018 by ahjfcshfghb

[Mateusz 22]

Alpine Skiing [10]

• Slalom (m/w)
• Giant Slalom (m/w)
• Super-G (m/w)
• Downhill (m/w)
• Combined (m/w)
• Team Event (mixed)

Biathlon [11]

• Sprint (m/w)
• Pursuit (m/w)
• Individual (m/w)
• Mass Start (m/w)
• Team Relay (m/w/mixed)
• Mixed Relay (1W+1M)
   

Bobsleigh [4]

• Two-man/woman (m/w)
• Four-man (m/w)

Cross-Country Skiing [14]

• 15/10km Freestyle (m/w)
• 15/10 km Classical (m/w)
• 30/15km Skiathlon (m/w)
• 50/30km Freestyle (m/w)
• 4x10/5km Relay (m/w)
• Individual Sprint Classical (m/w)
• Team Sprint (m/w) (but somehow it should be both classical and freestyle legs)

Curling [3]

• Tournament (m/w)
• Mixed Doubles (mixed)

Figure Skating [5]

• Singles (m/w)
• Pairs (mixed)
• Ice Dancing (mixed)
• Team Event (mixed)
• Synchronized skating team (mixed)

Freestyle Skiing [6]

• Aerials (m/w)
• Moguls (m/w)
• Halfpipe (m/w)
• Slopestyle (m/w)
• Ski Cross (m/w)

Ice Hockey [4]

• Tournament (m/w)
• Skills tournament (m/w)

Luge [4]

• Singles (m/w)
• Doubles (open)
• Team Relay (mixed)

Nordic Combined [4]

• Individual Normal Hill/10km (m/w)
• Individual Large Hill/10km (m)
• Team Large Hill/4x5km Relay (m)

Short Track Speed Skating [8]

• 500m (m/w)
• 1000m (m/w)
• 1500m (m/w)
• 5000m/3000m Relay (m/w)

Skeleton [2]

• Singles (m/w)

Ski Jumping [4]

• Normal Hill (m/w)
• Large Hill (m)
• Large Hill Team (m)

Snowboarding [6]

• Halfpipe (m/w)
• Slopestyle (m/w)
• Big Air (m/w)
• Parallel Giant Slalom (m/w)
• Snowboard Cross (m/w)

Speed Skating [12]

• 500m (m/w)
• 1000m (m/w)
• 1500m (m/w)
• 3000m (m/w)
• 5000m (m/w)
• 10,000m (m)
• Mass Start (m/w)
• Elimination Race (10 000 m M/5000 m W)
• Team Pursuit (m/w) - but something like Team Sprint f.ex.5 skaters and one leaves the ice after every two laps

Speed skiing [2]

• Individual (m/w)

Ice-cross downhill [2]

• Individual (m/w)

Winter pentathlon (cummulated time results from luge, speed skating, alpine skiing slalom, snowboard slalom and biathlon) [2]

 

• Individual (m/w)

 

 

Total medal events: 103 in 18 sports

Total athletes: ---

Days of competition: 18 (including Day -1 and Day 0 before the Opening Ceremony)

Edited January 9, 2018 by Mateusz

[Gianlu33 4,572]

12 minutes ago, Mateusz said:

Winter pentathlon (cummulated time results from luge, speed skating, alpine skiing slalom, snowboard slalom and biathlon) [2]

 

• Individual (m/w)

It seems an easy sport

 

[vinipereira 3,240]

8 hours ago, thiago_simoes said:

None. 

Let's make another Summer Olympic Games and we're set. 

 

Amen to that!

 

In all seriousness, I like the current programme, but that's coming from a person that understands about 5% of what actually is going on.

 

[thiago_simoes 1,423]

1 hora atrás, vinipereira disse:

 

Amen to that!

 

In all seriousness, I like the current programme, but that's coming from a person that understands about 5% of what actually is going on.

 

 

Yes, this is a big problem for people who do not live in Japan, China, Europe or North America.

 

I mean, some sports are nice to watch, but other sports just look stupid. Take luge, skeleton, moguls and ski jumping, for example. I wonder why they added such ridiculous looking things to the Olympic program. Curling also looks very weird at first, though I admit it is nice to watch once you understand what's going on (although it takes too long to finish a match, which eventually gets boring anyway).

Not to mention that Figure Skating is too hard for anyone to really understand how scores are calculated, and there are always accusations of unfairness and bribed judges, which is everything the Olympics should not deal with. The same thing can be said about rhythmic gymnastics, I know.

 

Adding new sports to the program would hardly make things more exciting, in my opinion. Bandy? Nope. Ice stock sport? This would be great for Brazil (only winter sport in which Brazil has won a medal at the World Championships), but no. We have curling already. Winter triathlon? This sounds weird. Mountain biking on snow is just something out of nightmares, in my opinion. 

As it is, there is very little I enjoy watching, and I could seriously live without the Winter Olympics.

[heywoodu 15,141]

52 minutes ago, thiago_simoes said:

 

 

 

I mean, some sports are nice to watch, but other sports just look stupid. Take luge, skeleton, moguls and ski jumping, for example. I wonder why they added such ridiculous looking things to the Olympic program.

Then again, that's exactly the thing I read a lot during the Summer Olympics as well (at least on the Dutch forums), mostly during the few minutes there's some TV attention for the likes of synchronized swimming, trampolining, rhythmic gymnastics, taekwondo (and next time definitely karate as well) or that wrestling form where they start in sort of a doggy style position  

 

It is indeed completely about which sports have at least a tiny bit of interest in your country or not. I was serious as well by the way, the Winter Olympics being gone (and so automatically the competitions in those sports gradually decreasing) would absolutely shatter me more than anything in my life (at least until now, my life has not been bad so far, I must admit, but still)  (same goes for losing the Summer Olympics btw)

Edited January 9, 2018 by heywoodu

[intoronto 5,641]

Yea the summer Olympics have much more wtf and boring sports than the Winter ones. The Winter Olympics are much more exciting to watch.

[NearPup 3,051]

44 minutes ago, intoronto said:

Yea the summer Olympics have much more wtf and boring sports than the Winter ones. The Winter Olympics are much more exciting to watch.

Not that Canadians are biased

[De_Gambassi 1,223]

il y a 55 minutes, intoronto a déclaré:

Yea the summer Olympics have much more wtf and boring sports than the Winter ones. The Winter Olympics are much more exciting to watch.

 

You probably have no idea how alien curling looks to anyone not born in Canada 

[vinipereira 3,240]

5 hours ago, intoronto said:

The Winter Olympics are much more exciting to watch.

 

Tell that to people who have never seen snow in their entire life*

 

*me