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The US federation had a really good proposal for sprints. They wanted both the 500m and the 1000m to be contested over a two run, best time counts (similar to half pipe / slopestyle) with one try on the inner and one try on the outer. Obviously the ISU went the other way, but I actually prefer that idea to the two run format. The 500m especially is just too high variance for a one run format at the godamn Olympics. There are like 15 people who can win on a given day.

Really interesting that the FEI publishes the draft / comment process. I don't think any of the IF is as transparent with how they review their qualification process. I really wish all the IFs where this transparent. Also, lol @ this comment from the Dutch Federation, which is clearly out for blood: "so that we can ensure quality and increase [sic] the risk of accidents". Also the Canadian Fed is still bitter about not having a dressage team in Rio xD

Oh hi. I'm Canadian, I live in the US now. You get a cookie if you can find my (now pretty inactive) GamesBids account

What's the point of even holding that "world" championship? It's going to be a joke.

FWIW it doesn't look like anything overlaps with the men's 50km race except the parallel snowboarding finals (and even that ends less than an hour into the 50km race) so it's not like it doesn't have a good spot on the schedule. The women's 30km free actually overlaps entirely with the men's hockey final so arguable the 50km actually had the better spot on the schedule. It's actually kinda crazy how bad the scheduling is for the last day, they only have four events yet you will always have two events at once (four man bobsleigh and women's curling also overlap).

I think some of those uniforms are actually pretty good - Slovenia, Switzerland, Sweden, Russia, Finland and Norway I really like. I have mixed feelings about Germany, the Czech Republic, South Korea and Canada. USA and Japan are meh, Slovakia's is just bad. Can Nike not have the contract for Beijing please?

Shame it couldn't be Finland, Sweden, Norway and Denmark in the same group.

Slovenia making the Olympics in 2014 was a shock, them making it twice in a row is just extraordinary. They did great in 2014, though, so it's nice to see them back.

Sad for Denmark, they have done really well over the last couple of quads yet they always come short from qualifying for the Olympics. At this point I really hope France and Latvia qualify. I wanted Denmark to make it from the other tournament so I don't have a real preference anymore.

Don't be silly, we don't want to remove the whole sport. We just want to get rid of the sprint

It's a subcontinent that accounts for a billion and a half people and who are severly underrepresented at the Olympics. It's a huge potential growth area for the IOC.

Cricket would add a lot of diversity since it's the most popular sport in India / Pakistan / Bangledesh / Afghanistan / Sri Lanka.

Archery: add mixed team event. Athletics: remove 50km walk. Badminton: add men's and women's team events. Have 64 player singles draws, 32 teams doubles draws and 16 team mixed doubles draw. Remove group stages. Baseball/Softball: remove. Boxing: add two women's weight classes. Cycling: add road team time trial, road criterium, track madisson, BMX time trial. Canoeing Slalom: remove men's C-2, replace it by women's C-1. Hold team events for all boats. Canoeing Sprint: men's and women's C-1 200, C-1 1000m, C-2 1000m, K-1 200, K-1 1000, K-1 10000, K-2 1000 and K-4 1000. Fencing: add two team events so we can stop the farce of the team event rotation. Golf: add a men's and women's team event (four person scramble over the first two rounds of the individual event) and a men's, women's and mixed pair matchplay event. Gymnastics: add men's and women's synchronized trampoline and tumbling. Judo: add men's and women's team event. Karate: remove kumite, add team kata. Modern Pentathlon: remove. Rowing: remove men's LW4-, add women's 4-. Sailing: have men's and women's sailboat, one person dinghy, two person dinghy, skiff, kitesurfing and multihull. Shooting: have men's and women's 50m pistol, 25m rapid fire pistol, 10m air riffle, 50m air riffle three position, trap, double trap and skeet. Skateboarding: add vert. Sports Climbing: change the name to climbing. Remove combined event, add speed, lead and bouldering events. Surfing: remove. Swimming: add men's 800m freestyle and women's 1500m freestyle. Synchronized Swimming: remove. Table tennis: add men's, women's and mixed doubles. Allow three per country in singles. Taekwondo: add two weight classes per gender. Tennis: add men's and women's team event. Triathlon: add mixed relay. Weightlifting: add an eighth women's weight class. Wrestling: remove Greco-Roman, add seventh freestyle weight class for both men and women. Squash: men's and women's singles and team.

Looks like we aren't losing our only ever weightlifting bronze medal for long

Seems insanely early this year...

This is getting ridiculous. They should just wait eight years before awarding the medals >.>

I believe women's canoeing is also likely to be introduced (looks like the C2 in slalom and the K2-200m and the C1-200m might be removed to make room) and that rowing is going to have seven men's events and seven women's event (the most sensible plan I've seen is to remove the men's lightweight four to replace it with the women's four). Golf, table tennis and archery also want mixed events.

Windsurfing is a completly different sport.

I can't believe I'm feeling bad for an "Azeri", but damn, Sotomayor got robbed. Ridiculous.

What a great performance full of promise for the future. This should be a great quadrennial

Passivity (running away, really) from the Mongolian.

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Sagan with a mechanical problem right after the tech zone. He's practically out. Also, thanks for taking out one of our guys Russia >.>

That was actually a really nice way to close out the conpetition xD

Eric Gillis finished tenth in the marathon. Not bad at all!