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Nothing to do with taste, there are Olympic sports I genuinely dislike (dressage, golf, sailing, shooting and taekwondo come to mind) who's presence on the Olympic program I have no big issues with, and there are sports I quite like (lacrosse...) that I think have no business being in the Olympics. My issue with modern pentathlon is entirely that it takes up a venue and 72 athletes that could be better used on virtually anything else. If there wasn't a 10,500 athlete limit and deep cuts across a bunch of sports it would be a different conversation.

The Olympics needs the U23 Football competition more than FIFA needs the IOC, so that's not happening. Modern Pentathlon did all those reforms and the sport is still unattractive to broadcast (to the point that where the IOC did revenue sharing they had to create a special tier for modern pentathlon because it was lower than every other sports), isn't practice outside of a very small niche (really hard to imagine there is any summer Olympic sport with a smaller base of recreational practitioners, but I admittedly don't have statistics for that), and it's just on life support. I'm very much of the opinion that if a sport or event needs the Olympics to survive as something people do competitively then it is not entitled to remain in the Olympics.

I personally think the obvious solution was to remove modern pentathlon from the Olympics and to let it fail or succeed on it’s own.

I mean, if we are going by the definition you quoted you’d basically have to be either ignorant or a psychopath to not be “woke”. So that seems like a bad definition to me, because I know a lot of people who would not self describe as “woke” but who also are definitively aware and attentive to “important societal facts and issues”. Anyway: 1. difficult question where the right answer will likely vary based on context. It’s a very difficult debate to follow because there is so much bad faith, ignorance and talking past people on both sides. 2. The death of the slalom C-2 has a lot more to do with the ICF not giving a shit about that event than it does with the IOC. Besides, you had to be stupid to not know the Olympics where heading in that direction eventually by the mid 90s at the *latest*. The people who were in power in the ICF and in various NFs that didn’t develop women’s canoeing way more aggressively are to blame. The summer sports that developed gender parity by the early 2000s didn’t suffer at all from the push for gender equality, it’s entirely the sports that dragged their feet that felt the squeeze. So my sympathies are pretty limited. (That and the IOC’s super strict insistence on the rest of Agenda 2020 was a big factor too) 3. Modern Pentathlon shouldn’t be in the Olympics at all anyway, and it’s baffling that the IOC didn’t take this opportunity to get rid of it. As someone who enjoys watching show jumping the level of riding in modern pentathlon is just painful. It was something that was only watchable with a “so bad it’s good” mindset.

This conversation would be greatly helped if there was an agreed upon definition to what being "woke" is.

First criteria is most Olympic and grand slam titles, then most points.

Janire Gonzalez-Etxbarri and Siqi Yang pick up the last two individual women's quotas! makes its Olympic debut in surfing. The only thing left to decide on the women's side is the team quota.

McGonagle is now eliminated from Olympic contention, there is no longer any scenario where she has the best third place score while Hennessy finished top two in her heat.

We have two new qualifiers on the women's side: Camilla Kemp and Anat Lelior. Nadia Erostarbe is now guaranteed an Olympic spot too. Two more women's quotas remain, Siqi Yang, Janire Gonzalez-Etxbarri and Sky Brown can all qualify by finishing top two in their repechage heat. Not sure who gets the last quota if only one of them advance.

Alonso Corera and either Joan Duru or Marco Mignot have qualified for the Olympics. Four spots remaining on the men's side (plus the team spot).

A very expensive pay service too :<

The main round 5 will be critical - everyone who qualifies to main round 6 is guaranteed a top eight position, which is almost certain to be enough for a quota.

I believe we have our first Olympic qualifiers on the women's side: Yalanda Sequeira Nadia Erostarbe Sol Aguirre Taina Hinckel The rest of the four qualifiers will come from the repechage.

Erin Brooks is likely to have a pretty long career, if she's as good as she's hyped up to be she'll be a medal contender in 2028 and 2032 (and will be able to qualify through the WSL, which is a more reliable way to qualify) 16 is really young for a surfer.

We're lucky she's still competing, her initial plan was to retire after Tokyo but she stuck around for one more Olympics because she feels she didn't get a "proper" Olympic experience due to the pandemic.

Currious about why.

Isn't this a more satisfying way to qualify than having lose to ? :P

Was this reversed? https://olympics.com/ioc/news/milano-cortina-2026-new-competition-event-formats

Yuuuuuuup. Same deal with the Nordic Combined team event, it's not a team sprint. The alpine combined event is also now a team event.

The random SwimSwam commenter was right!

I think Tiger Woods is a lock in men's golf, he's the greatest of all times and has won fifteen majors, it's hard to see how anyone else has more than a 10% chance of winning.

It doesn't matter how much better you are than the field, under current rules there is no such thing as a lock in the sprints. Just ask Usain Bolt about his 2011 world championship title in the 100m.

That is a pretty hilarious loophole if true.

Ya, Dupont was really electric on Sunday. France just felt much more dangerous every time he had the ball or otherwise was involved in the play.

I’m willing to bet my life savings that at least one of the “locks” mentioned in this thread won’t win gold xD