Poll 39|100 | Controversial Topic | If you had the power to remove one of the Olympic Sports/Discipline at Tokyo what would it be?

[Olympian1010 8,276]

22 minutes ago, intoronto said:

Rowing needs to cut 24 quotas for 2024...

1 hour ago, JoshMartini007 said:

 

How can they remove even more quotas in rowing without dropping events? It's pretty skeleton as is. Eights already has the least amount of entrants outside of Baseball/Softball.

I’ve been doing some mock qualification/quota allocation systems. Rowing needs to lose 24 quotas. It’s easy to lose 8 by bringing the doubles/pairs events down to 12 entries from 13. That leaves 8 quotas per gender left that need to be removed. There’s no perfect remedy for removing those quotas from the current allocation. The options (as I see them) are: lose the 7th boat in eights, lose some quotas in single sculls, or lose a boat in the quadruple/fours. I think it’s going to be a tough decision for World Rowing, and it will definitely have an impact on the future of the sport.

[intoronto 6,641]

3 minutes ago, Olympian1010 said:

I’ve been doing some mock qualification/quota allocation systems. Rowing needs to lose 24 quotas. It’s easy to lose 8 by bringing the doubles/pairs events down to 12 entries from 13. That leaves 8 quotas per gender left that need to be removed. There’s no perfect remedy for removing those quotas from the current allocation. The options (as I see them) are: lose the 7th boat in eights, lose some quotas in single sculls, or lose a boat in the quadruple/fours. I think it’s going to be a tough decision for World Rowing, and it will definitely have an impact on the future of the sport.

6 entries in an Olympic event is too low lol. I think cutting one spot from each of the continental qualifiers + worlds (4 per gender) for the single sculls could work.

[JoshMartini007 2,813]

At this point, the IOC is basically trying to force World Rowing to drop Eights without specifically telling them to do so.

[intoronto 6,641]

14 minutes ago, JoshMartini007 said:

At this point, the IOC is basically trying to force World Rowing to drop Eights without specifically telling them to do so.

Would save 144 quotas...

[phelps 8,407]

rather drop all lightweights...

[LDOG 2,472]

46 minutes ago, zob79 said:

It's exactly the opposite, my friend. Only you and some other former ex-British slaves play this so-called sport, while rowing is really universal since ancient times. Anyway, you're not the smartest man alive comparing a sport with a subdivision of another sport...

From my understanding (I could be misremembering) agenda 2020 allows revision of a sport on a event by event basis rather than the whole sport, as it used to be.

[rybak 3,330]

It wouldn't be better just to remove such dirty and not fair sport like weightlifting (it would save 196 quotas) instead and didn't "touch" any other sport? 

[pdr4332 218]

1 hour ago, zob79 said:

It's exactly the opposite, my friend. Only you and some other former ex-British slaves play this so-called sport, while rowing is really universal since ancient times. Anyway, you're not the smartest man alive comparing a sport with a subdivision of another sport...

To be fair, field hockey (unlike cricket) is being played at competitive level by a number of non Anglo-Saxon/"ex-British Empire" nations, like Germany or Benelux

[Fly_like_a_don 1,147]

14 hours ago, zob79 said:

It's exactly the opposite, my friend. Only you and some other former ex-British slaves play this so-called sport, while rowing is really universal since ancient times. Anyway, you're not the smartest man alive comparing a sport with a subdivision of another sport...

I didnt tell to remove rowing. Only coxed eights must be removed.Anyhow I don't want to argue with you because you are busy selling your house right since New Zealand defeated Romania in Men's Eights in Lucerne Regatta.