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Have they even re-added it to the worlds program yet?

Rightfully so. If we were to axe / make mixed a further rowing event I actually think the fours makes more sense. Eights is simply the most iconic rowing event, if there was one rowing event in the Olympics it should be the eights.

Really hard to see how they design a fair qualification system for cricket given the small number of available quota spots.

OH, I missed something big. The men's and women's team events in Table Tennis are *gone*, and replaced by men's and women's doubles. Format for mixed team is simply a Bo5, with a men's single, women's single, men's doubles, women's doubles and mixed doubles match. Teams must consist of three to four athletes of each gender, and at least three athletes per gender must compete in each match.

I think the best news from these announcments is that climbing now has a full set of six events. I am personally very happy with a mixed golf team event but I understand that's not a unanimous position. I'm mostly indiferent to the other changes. I'll wait to see the details of the mixed team events in gymnastics and table tennis before passing judgement. I don't care for the stroke 50s and I'd say I'm slightly negative about their addition. Dissapointed they changed the mixed race walk into a mixed 4x100m relay. I feel like athletics could really use some relays for longer distance races and while not perfect the mixed race walk provided that.

Apparently only Modern Pentathlon lost quotas (they go to climbing) Breaking quotas went to adding 3x3 teams. Format for mixed gymnastics event is TBD.

Based on the press conference it sure looks like the men's and women's eights are on the chopping block for 2032 / that a mixed eights might replace it. Also the IOC seems to think the mixed 4x400m in athletics is a huge success. Bleh.

Honnestly this is not as bad as I feared? The additional sports being outside of the 10500 athlete quota is a *huge* relief.

Cricket, Baseball, Softball, Flag Football and Lacrosse are all six team tournaments. Squash is a 16 men's single and women's single draw. Roster size per sport: Baseball: 24 Cricket: 15 Flag Football: 10 Lacrosse: 11 Softball: 15

https://stillmed.olympics.com/media/Documents/Olympic-Games/LA28/Official-Programme-of-the-Olympic-Games-Los-Angeles-2028.pdf

Might be wront because I'm transcribing while watching live (while also being on a work meeting) 50m events in all strokes 12 women's teams in water polo Compound (!) mixed team event archery 4x100m mixed relay in athletics Mixed race walk relay removed 12 teams in 3x3 basketball 7 men's and women's events in boxing Football will have 16 women's teams and 12 men's teams Mixed team event in golf Mixed artistic gymnastics team event (!) Coastal rowing is three events (men's, women's, mixed double sculls), removing lightweight rowing NO MORE COMBINED IN CLIMBING! Speed, boulder and lead are all different events Mixed team event in table tennis (in addition to mixed doubles? O.o) 10500 athlete quota only applies to core sports for LA More women's quotas than men's quotas overall

Obviously we need a 48 team Olympic tournament, since FIFA has discovered this is the optimal number.

The thing is, counting football players in the athlete quota doesn't even really make any sense. They don't stay in the village, and they bring in more revenue than they cost. Like I get why people dislike the men's football tournament, but it would be an absolutely braindead move to remove it.

IIRC this is how early Korea always does Olympic selections for short track. It's actually a small part of why Ahn Hyun-soo / Viktor An went from to , he didn't have a chance to qualify for the 2010 Olympics because of an injury he suffered in 2008.

It's a real shame they've had so many issues with the electronic handles, having an objective measure for hog line violations was much better.

Time for the IOC to consider raising the athlete cap above 2900...

The drought continues, it’s been almost two weeks since last won a curling world championship

Big congrats to for finally qualifying for the Olympics in men’s curling after *so* many close calls. The OQT is gonna be brutal on both the men’s and women’s side :O

At the conclusion of the round robin, six Olympic spots have been decided: (plus host ) will get the last ranking quota if they make the finals. Otherwise the final spot goes to .

Doesn’t look like Jacob’s is letting off the gas despite having nothing to play for.

Based on my quick and dirty tie-break hell calculation will qualify for the Olympics if they beat and fails to finish in the top 2.

The Olympic program commitee is reporting to the Executive Board on April 9th, so hopefully that's confirmation it means we'll know the event program then. https://www.olympics.com/ioc/news/ioc-executive-board-meeting-9-april-2025-information-for-the-media

Good change. Should probably be even higher (15 or 16) tbh.

I had a similar skiing injury, but much less severe (no displacement, so didn’t have surgery) and it took me months to walk normal again so :/

2031 and 2035 are both good picks to host. Expanding the women's (or men's for that matter) world cup to 48 teams is... bleh. The 32 team format is / was so good