Slalom Canoeing ECA European Championships 2021

[OlympicsFan 858]

Why are there almost twice as many quota places in kayak?

 

Also this again shows how absurd (and bad for the athletes) the IOC‘s policies are. In some sports a gazillion athletes from the same nation can qualify in the same event, but in other sports not even two athletes from the same nation can qualify. They should just allow 2 or 3 athletes from the same nation in every sport and if they have to reduce the number of athletes, they should do it by reducing the number of teams and/or nobody’s from third-world countries. Even if they would only get rid of football, there would easily be enough spots for all competitive athletes in all the other sports.

 

When you think about it, an Olympic gold actually isn’t as difficult to achieve in many sports as a world championship gold. In canoe slalom it definitely is easier to win Olympic gold (if we are talking about one specific year, obviously world championships take place more frequently and therefore there are more chances to win world championship gold).

[OlympicsFan 858]

11 minutes ago, hckošice said:

Yes.

Are there any men who are competitive in both events? If not, then isn’t that in itself proof that the women’s events are less competitive and that therefore men’s events should have more quota places?

[hckošice 14,893]

4 minutes ago, OlympicsFan said:

Are there any men who are competitive in both events? If not, then isn’t that in itself proof that the women’s events are less competitive and that therefore men’s events should have more quota places?

Not anymore. There were few of them in the past, but nowadays it is impossible to be equally competitive in both C and K.

 

W C1 is still a terrible joke which does not belong to the Olympics. Removing a great discipline like the C2 to replace it by this nonsense was just shameful decision.

 

And yes that stupid 1 boat per NOC rule is extremely bad and yes definitely winning the European Championships and World Championships is much much much more difficult than winning Olympic gold. This sadly apply for many other sports as well.

[OlympicsFan 858]

27 minutes ago, hckošice said:

Not anymore. There were few of them in the past, but nowadays it is impossible to be equally competitive in both C and K.

 

W C1 is still a terrible joke which does not belong to the Olympics. Removing a great discipline like the C2 to replace it by this nonsense was just shameful decision.

 

And yes that stupid 1 boat per NOC rule is extremely bad and yes definitely winning the European Championships and World Championships is much much much more difficult than winning Olympic gold. This sadly apply for many other sports as well.

In fighting sports it is somewhat understandable that they only allow one athlete per country, but in slalom canoeing it doesn’t make sense. Obviously some might say that this sport isn’t important enough to have more athletes, but then why the hell are nations allowed to have multiple athletes in the same event in sports like triathlon or modern pentathlon?

[hckošice 14,893]

For anyone interested with internal qualifying in M C1

 

 

here the standing, remember the worst result is scratched.

 

 

The points for the last event

 

[Benolympique 2,398]

10 minutes ago, hckošice said:

For anyone interested with internal qualifying in M C1

 

 

here the standing, remember the worst result is scratched.

 

 

The points for the last event

 

I préfeR Michal Martikan 

[EselTheDonkey 824]

I'm nervous. 

[hckošice 14,893]

1 minute ago, Benolympique said:

I préfeR Michal Martikan 

well, all 3 are good

 

every one of them will certainly prepare himself responsibly for tokyo. we have a great balanced team in this discipline, all three would deserve to go to the Olympics and none of them would be considered as "tourist", on the contrary, every one of them is a medal adept.

 

However if you ask my personal impressio, I'm a little sorry for Slafkovsky, I wished him to go to experience the Olympics, he never qualified because of 1 boat per NOC rule, now he was very close and in my opinion he was our biggest chance in Tokyo, but again all of them are good, and whoever will qualify it is by pure merit.

[hckošice 14,893]

and the thriller started

[Gianlu33 4,606]

I think that's is over for us.