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Mixed team breakdancing.

No, IOC website mentions it will be streamed there, but no link.

IOC Media’s YouTube channel.

Bottas has not cost Mercedes the constructor's championship because the only person who scored more point than him is Hamitlon...

Best surfing venue in France, and one of the most important surging venue anywhere in the world. Also wrong season for Biarritz. They could definitively hold surfing in Biarritz, but the opportunity to hold Olympic surfing in Tahiti is just too good to pass up. Athletes and surfing fans seem very excited about it.

I would really like to stop doing these one off things...

A Pérez / Occon / Stroll podium, as we all expected. Russell drove a great race. Hard to imagine he won't get another shot at this.

Golfers have long complained about the Olympic format being too much like every other random PGA event. Adding a team element and/or matchplay would be really popular among the athletes and would make the Olympics more attractive to golf fans. Match play is also way more interesting for people who aren't inherently golf fans. If I had it my way you'd have a men's, women's and mixed matchplay event with two person teams.

Please, god, no. As a former fencer I have an urge to stab anyone who proposes a mixed weapon event. Fencing is blessed with a great team format, lets not mess with it. Especially now that we finally, at long last, got the full complement of team events in the Olympics.

Very ambivalent about that one. Flatland reminds me a lot of acroski (ski ballet). Sort of there for the mixed team time trial relay, though. I think it's a dumb format, but I'm desperate for any form of team time trial to be brought back.

According to ITG's blog post we don't know what boxing, climbing, fencing, golf, skateboarding, surfing or weightlifting are up to. The math still doesn't work out but it gets a lot closer. Actually we know for a fact that climbing did request and will obtain two additional events. But yes, the lack of transparency is a huge problem. You have ridiculous situations where athletes and national federations don't even know what events are being proposed in their own sports (see: monobob for Beijing 2022).

I would be more okay with canoe extreme is it involved canoes or was extreme. (Note: in North American English the word canoe can't be used to refer to a kayak)

If the FIG is so desperate to add new events just propose tumbling...

That makes a lot more sense xD Good for him, this is a good career move, especially with the Olympics in Milan coming up around when he'll be in his prime.

Can't wait for the mixed penalty shootout event in Football.

Next week we should put Latifi in the Mercedes as an experiment.

That's baffling, unless the training conditions in the Italian team are really bad. Making the Canadian Olympic team in moguls is a huge challenge, even when the team is relatively weak (as it is right now, ignoring Kingsbury).

Don't you dare touch the best race on the track :<

As someone who has a (UK) Eurosport sub, I can confidently say that is not even close to being true xD

This reminds me of Trevor Noah's memoir's "Go Hitler!" chapter. Apparently it isn't such a rare name for black South Africans of a certain generation.

Good riddance on the 200 events IMO. I just wish they'd replace them with 5000m events rather than with that BS and extremely boring kayakcross thing. Like, I'm all for the X-Gamification of the Olympics. Freestyle skiing is my favourite Olympic sport, I love slopestyle, I love half-pipe, I love ski/snowboardcross, I tolerate big air, I like BMX racing, I'm super happy about skateboarding, surfing and BMX freestyle being added to the Olympics. Kayakcross (I refuse to call it anything else) is a neat idea in theory but it just doesn't work on an artificial whitewater course, and it hasn't caught on in the same way all the other events I have listed above have. The Olympics needed snowboarding, freestyle skiing, skateboarding and surfing way more than those sports needed the Olympics. "Extreme canoe slalom", on the other hand, needs the Olympics to grow.

I didn’t realize Canada has so many young aerialists. Seems like they have been doing a pretty through rebuild of that program.

All those mixed team events have been paying off. It is indeed a pretty bad look. The IOC doesn’t seem to like having dissenting voices be heard.

Take it to the bank: George Russel out qualifies Bottas but fails to score a point anyway.

Doesn’t help that the second and third biggest women’s programs are sitting this one out.