El Analyzer

so, out of 16 events, we have 26 Nations from 4 Continents (5, if we split North and South America) winning at least 1 medal and 10 of them winning at least 1 Gold medal
 
only Continent out of the medal table is Oceania
 
just for fun: men's Team Kumite had 46 entries, women's Team Kumite had 55...55!!! not even the 4*100m Relays at the Athletics World Champs had so many (in the years when there was a basically free entry, of course)
 
the women's Individual events had a minimum of 54 up to 61 entries, the men's range went from 61 (only the +84kg) to 74 (4 out of 6 events went over 70)
 
but Karate doesn't deserve the Olympic status, meanwhile Lacrosse and Flag Football and Breakdance do...sure! 

May be a bit late but a quick introduction 
I am Ahmed Egyptian/ British.. really proud to be part of this community 
 
Mad about Olympics since I was 6 yrs (will let you guess which Olympics was that😜)
 
thanks for the friendly atmosphere and looking forward to being a good team member 

Nah, just google hard for news!
 
I think squash has a decent chance of staying on in Brisbane, and at that point might be able to push towards core sport, so long as it is careful on numbers and doesn't get 'greedy' - you could cobble together a full five events with not much more than 100 athletes (8 direct quota pairs in men's & women's doubles brings total number of quotas to 96, and doubles mixed can then go the tennis group and be cobbled from athletes at the games (as can extra pairs in the men's ad women's doubles i needs be)

That's correct, only two events as you told me earlier. it stated also in Squash federation news.
Actually you said that before anybody and when WIKIPEDIA was saying 5 medal events by mistake ..credit goes to you my friend ..or you maybe a member of squash federation board 

Two Swedish supporters are shot dead in Brussels. 
 
Can this evening be any worse for Sweden than this? 
 

 
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-67129117

Nah, he's not a king.
 
He's a Pope, and the IOC is his Conclave. If he had his way, Lausanne would become a new Vatican of sport.

I was hoping to see they crown Tommy B as the lifelong king of IOC. 
 
he shouldn't be just IOC's president, he should be the King. I mean he acts like a true dictator, why not giving him a throne 

Squash already confirmed it forsees 32 men, 32 women, 2 events, both sexes individual.

All of that will likely be finalized with the rest of the sports program. We usually learn all that information shortly after the previous Olympic Games. 

Yesterday few executive members "suggested" to keep Mr Bach for years and years  ..was waiting a military orchestra with "BACK ...BACH..." in the background 
 
Today same people have got 4 yrs extention as executive board members ... 
 
My mind is confused and have a suspicious ...are these situations related 
 
All I can hear in back of my mind is ....."BACH ...BACH" 

quoted from insidethegames website "The elimination of the fencing ranking round is confirmed for modern pentathlon at the Los Angeles 2028 Olympics"
 
 
what does this mean, any idea what would be the new format? ..only fencing bonus round?

Yesterday few executive members "suggested" to keep Mr Bach for years and years  ..was waiting a military orchestra with "BACK ...BACH..." in the background 
 
Today same people have got 4 yrs extention as executive board members ... 
 
My mind is confused and have a suspicious ...are these situations related 
 
All I can hear in back of my mind is ....."BACH ...BACH" 

Tidjane Thiam (CIV) & William Blick (UGA)  Apparently, they were worried these team sports are not established enough in Africa... Go and figure

For Squash, would like a 32 athlete singles tournament per gender with 2 per NOC if both in top 16 otherwise 1 per NOC

For Cricket would like to have an 8 team tournament with champions of Americas, Asia, Africa + Europe, East Asia Pacific (The smallest continental zone in ICC https://www.icc-cricket.com/about/members/east-asia-pacific), 1 team from Ranking/Host Nation, 2 from a qualification tournament.

2023 Swimming World Cup Athens - Day 3 Results
 
Men's 400m Individual Medley:
1.  Kaito Tabuchi - 4:13.30
2.  Matthew Sates - 4:13.38
3.  Brendon Smith - 4:18.18
 
Women's 1500m Freestyle:
1.  Lani Pallister - 15:55.73 (WC Record)
2.  Katie Grimes - 16:08.81
3.  Caitlin Deans - 16:21.06
 
Women's 100m Butterfly:
1.  Zhang Yufei - 56.06 (WC Record)
2.  Sarah Sjoestroem - 56.92 
3.  Torri Huske - 57.12
 
Men's 50m Butterfly:
1.  Abdelrahman Sameh - 23.04
2.  Isaac Cooper - 23.19
3.  Michael Andrew - 23.32
 
Women's 200m Backstroke:
1.  Kaylee McKeown - 2:06.02 (WC Record)
2.  Katie Grimes - 2:08.01
3.  Kylie Masse - 2:10.77
 
Men's 100m Backstroke:
1.  Thomas Ceccon - 52.73
2.  Pieter Coetze - 53.49
3.  Apostolos Christou - 53.61
 
Women's 50m Breaststroke:
1.  Ruta Meilutyte - 30.23
2.  Siobhan Haughey - 30.36
3.  Sophie Hansson - 30.68
 
Men's 200m Breaststroke:
1.  Qin Haiyang - 2:08.05
2.  Dong Zhihao - 2:09.18
3.  Caspar Corbeau - 2:09.35
 
Women's 100m Freestyle:
1.  Siobhan Haughey - 52.55
2.  Sarah Sjoestroem - 53.32
3.  Bronte Campbell - 53.60
 
Men's 200m Freestyle:
1.  Danas Rapsys - 1:45.72
2.  Maximillian Giuliani - 1:47.18
3.  Kieran Smith - 1:48.03
 
Women's 200m Individual Medley:
1.  Sydney Pickrem - 2:09.67
2.  Torri Huske - 2:11.15
3.  Kaylee McKeown - 2:11.23
 
Men's Overall Standings:
1.  Qin Haiyang - 116.7 
2.  Thomas Ceccon - 112.8 
3.  Matthew Sates - 110.5
4.  Michael Andrew - 108.4
5.  Danas Rapsys - 107.1
6.  Isaac Cooper - 96.1 
7.  Kieran Smith - 91.5
8.  Arno Kamminga - 90.6 
9.  Nic Fink - 84.8
10.  Brendon Smith - 83.4
 
Women's Overall Standings:
1.  Kaylee McKeown - 117.7 
2.  Zhang Yufei - 110.5 
3.  Siobhan Haughey - 109.9 
4.  Sarah Sjoestroem - 109.7 
5.  Katie Grimes - 102.6
6.  Erika Fairweather - 102.0
7.  Lani Pallister - 101.6
8.  Torri Huske - 90.9
9.  Kylie Masse - 90.9
10.  Jenna Strauch - 85.1

that was the final number of participants in Tokyo 

most likely, they will get back to a shorter version of the old fencing round (being the athletes divided in smaller groups for the semis and the final, it wouldn't take much time to have a single round robin...with 12-(wo)man groups, it's only 11 rounds of 1 minute-match on 6 pistes, let's say 55 mins in total)

Doing a basic look at the 8 new team events and the world rankings, how a 6 team tournament might look, assuming as far as realistic continental representation
 
LACROSSE:
 
It's notable that the same basic teams turn up again and again at the top of the World rankings regardless of version of Lacrosse - Field, Box etc or gender
 
N. America: USA, CAN, Iroquois
Oceania : Australia
Europe : Great Britain/England, Israel, to a lesser extent Germany
Asia: Japan
 
South America and Africa hardly figure
 
So one suspects both tournaments are going to involve USA, Canada, Australia, Japan, Great Britain and one other - the other being either, USA2 (Iroquois), Israel or the winner of a playoff between Africa and South America. Not impossible #6 team are different in the two events (say men Iroquois, women, Israel)
 
BASEBALL/SOFTBALL
 
Great Britain have definitely risen in both the men's and women's game in recent years, but otherwise no surprises, the same basic system, the same likely teams
 
FLAG FOOTBALL
 
USA and Mexico seem the established powers (no Canada?) and given superstar NFL players like Tyreek hill have expressed an interest in trying to make the Games it could be painfully one sided
Austria for some reason appear the established superpower in Europe, most of the non north American teams in the top 10 are European
However Japan, Korea, Thailand and India are high enough, I think, toguarantee Asia a spot.
As ever, it seems Africa will suffer.
 
All that said, it would be interesting if decent 'tackle football' players in strong tackle football nations, esp Canada, choose to get involved. The sport is so underdeveloped, any shit could happen, frankly.
 
CRICKET
 
: Easily the most Global of the new sports (and arguably the one most likely to survive to 32, along with Baseball), it's hard to look past a Host and five continental teams set up which would likely be
 
USA (Host), TRI/JAM (Panamerica) IND (Asia) Great Britain (Eng, and technically SCO and Northern Irish IRL players - Europe), South Africa (Africa) Australia (Oceania). This set up misses out badly on the possible India Pakistan dynamic but it is so hard to give West Indies nothing in favour of USA)
 
 

Lucy Charles Barclay takes the Ironman win - led from the beginning of the the swim leg to the finish.
 
Ironman World Championship: Lucy Charles-Barclay wins title for first time - BBC Sport

Qualified for the Olympic Games 2024.

Inspired by @Makedonas comment & @rafalgorka interesting new topics I have created this thread for fun to suggest 3-5 sports can be added to the program if your country hosting the Olympics
The list of sports federations recognized by IOC as follows:
Sports governed by International Federations recognised by the International Olympic Committee
Air Sports American Football (Provisional) Automobile Bandy Baseball Softball Billiard Sports   Bowling   Bridge Cheerleading Chess   Cricket   Floorball   Flying Disc   Icestocksport Karate Kickboxing Korfball Lacrosse Life saving   Motorcycle racing   Mountaineering and Climbing Muaythai Netball   Orienteering   Pelota Vasca Petanque & Bowls Polo   Powerboating   Racquetball Sambo Squash   Sumo  Tug of War Underwater sports   Water Ski Wushu  But feel free to add other sports if you want (would be nice to state if it is not recognised yet)

if they went for 5 would surely shadow badminton and tennis - M+W singles, M + W doubles, X doubles?
Very small projected quotas number though.

We have the first medal winners of 2028: congrats Egypt!

So, it has been confirmed 
All 5 additional sports approved (expected)
reinstatement of Modern Pentathlon and Weightlifting 
boxing still on hold but seems safe under the governance of IOC
 
 
 
https://www.insidethegames.biz/articles/1141685/ioc-eb-boxing-back-on-hold