Poll 15/100 | Which mixed gender event are you most excited to watch at Tokyo?

[NearPup 3,505]

I'm going to answer this as a tier list:

 

Mixed events that are must watch for me:

• Badminton mixed doubles
• Table tennis mixed doubles
• Tennis mixed doubles
• Triathlon mixed relay

 

Mixed events that I am not upset are in the Olympics:

• Archery mixed team
• Sailing mixed multihull
• The three shooting mixed team events

 

Mixed events I don't believe should be in the Olympics:

• Athletics mixed 4x400m relay
• Judo mixed team event (the format is simply unfair)
• Swimming mixed 4x100m medley relay

I am against the athletics and swimming mixed relays because they are essentially redundant (wouldn't be opposed to mixed relays that are markedly different from the same-gendered relays). I think the mixed judo team event has a fatally flawed format that has no place in a serious competition like the Olympics (too few weight classes and a very unfair mechanism to resolve 3-3 ties).

[Olympian1010 8,231]

I’m completely fine with Mixed Events long as they don’t have comical formats, or make a joke of the sport. Essentially, if they work as a legitimate, competitive event...I’m cool with them being on the program.

 

So my favorites are:

Mixed Doubles (Tennis, Table Tennis, Badminton)

Mixed Relay (Triathlon)

Nacra 17 (Sailing)

Mixed Recurve (Archery)

[heywoodu 16,015]

1 hour ago, Olympian1010 said:

I’m completely fine with Mixed Events long as they don’t have comical formats, or make a joke of the sport. Essentially, if they work as a legitimate, competitive event...I’m cool with them being on the program.

Agreed, which is why I don't much care for events where men and women compete against each other head-to-head (like in athletics). They often come across comical and are just insanely hard to follow, even worse when there is no set order.

[Monzanator 4,776]

None. Mixed event in judo is just another freebie gold medal for Japan

 

I don't follow sailing, table tennis & triathlon so don't care about these events much.

[thiago_simoes 1,441]

Wait, aren't all equestrian events mixed gender?

And there's at least one in sailing, too.

[Monzanator 4,776]

30 minutes ago, thiago_simoes said:

Wait, aren't all equestrian events mixed gender?

And there's at least one in sailing, too.

 

Equestrian doesn't count as it's old school & traditional so doesn't fit with the modern politically correct propaganda

 

[opruh 129]

None, I don't like mixed gender events.

[Griff88 2,009]

14 hours ago, NearPup said:

I'm going to answer this as a tier list:

 

Mixed events that are must watch for me:

• Badminton mixed doubles
• Table tennis mixed doubles
• Tennis mixed doubles
• Triathlon mixed relay

 

Mixed events that I am not upset are in the Olympics:

• Archery mixed team
• Sailing mixed multihull
• The three shooting mixed team events

 

Mixed events I don't believe should be in the Olympics:

• Athletics mixed 4x400m relay
• Judo mixed team event (the format is simply unfair)
• Swimming mixed 4x100m medley relay

I am against the athletics and swimming mixed relays because they are essentially redundant (wouldn't be opposed to mixed relays that are markedly different from the same-gendered relays). I think the mixed judo team event has a fatally flawed format that has no place in a serious competition like the Olympics (too few weight classes and a very unfair mechanism to resolve 3-3 ties).

Basically you just summed up what I had on my mind 

 

Mixed relays in athletics are the worst, that's just 100% pure joke

[dcro 10,210]

8 hours ago, thiago_simoes said:

Wait, aren't all equestrian events mixed gender?

And there's at least one in sailing, too.

Equestrian events are open, not mixed. There are no gender-assigned places as with the mixed team events.

[thiago_simoes 1,441]

6 hours ago, dcro said:

Equestrian events are open, not mixed. There are no gender-assigned places as with the mixed team events.

Interesting! I never thought about it.

This makes aerobic gymnastics the only sport I know of that covers all of these categories.

1) There are gender-specific events: individual male and individual female;
2) There's a mixed pair event;
3) Trios, groups, dance and step events are open to any gender.

There was a mixed synchro trampoline event at the early World Championships ins the 1960s, but it has long been discontinued.

Any other "open" events in sports you know of?