JoshMartini007

Team ranking stopped mattering once IWF stopped using them for Olympic qualification (rightfully so). Iran just needs to get with the times

Spain's men's team is off to a great start.

To be fair, GEO and GEQ are pretty close

Michael Del Zotto? Though it looks like he's in the AHL now...

Hopefully they received actual checks too

Reeves won the women's 71kg.

With the IWF cracking down on doping, North Korea was already the second best nation before Covid. The three-year isolation does make things suspicious. Considering the IWF is now testing them every time they compete (given their results), they are probably clean now. The IWF is on such a short leash that a scandal like this may kill the federation so I imagine they are keeping a watchful eye on them.

Comparing results here to the Olympics, they would be at 2G-2S-0B after four events.

Canada should win more gold medals. As for total medals, I think we have a good chance to win more.

Congrats to Peru. Rather than just investing for 2019 and dropping off, the nation continues to invest in sport years after. Now that they have the 2027 Pan American Games it'll be interesting to see what they can do. Can they close the gap between Argentina/Colombia/Cuba?

Yet I won't be surprised if someone like Nathan MacKinnon will pick up a few awards.

Since it has been so long, here's a comparison of events relative to 2018. Aquatics Diving Removed: All events; 3m springboard (M/F), 10m platform (M/F), Team (Mix) Swimming Removed: 800m freestyle (M/F), 4x100m freestyle relay (M/F/Mix), and 4x100m medley relay (M/F/Mix) Badminton Removed: Team (Mix) Baseball/Softball Add: Baseball5 (Mix) Basketball Removed: Dunk contest (M), Shoot-out contest (F) Boxing Add: 1 women's category Removed: 4 men's categories Canoeing Slalom Removed: All events; Obstacle C1 (M/F), Obstacle K1 (M/F) Sprint Removed: All events; Head-to-head C1 (M/F), Head-to-head K1 (M/F) Cycling Add: Road race (M/F), Time trial (M/F) Removed: Combined team (M/F), BMX Race (Mix), BMX Freestyle (Mix) Dancesport (Breaking) Removed: Team (Mix) Equestrian Removed: Team (Mix) Fencing Removed: Team (Mix) Field Hockey Removed: All events; Hockey5s (M/F) Golf Removed: All events; Individual (M/F), Team (Mix) Gymnastics Add: Team Artistic All-Around (Mix) Acrobatics Removed: All events; Pairs (Mix) Artistic Removed: Floor (M/F), Vault (M/F), Rings (M), Pommel horse (M), Horizontal bar (M), Parallel bar (M), Uneven bars (F), Balance beam (F) Rhythmic Removed: All events; Individual all-around (F) Trampoline Removed: All events; Individual (M/F) Combined Removed: All events; Team (Mix) Judo Removed: Team (Mix) Karate Removed: All events; M (-61kg, -68kg, +68kg), F (-53kg, -59kg, +59kg) Modern pentathlon Removed: All events; Individual (M/F), Team (Mix) Roller sports Skateboarding Add: Street (M/F) Speed skating Removed: All events; Combined (M/F) Rowing Add: Costal single sculls (M/F), Costal double sculls (Mix) Removed: Single sculls (M/F), Coxless pairs (M/F) Sailing Removed: Kiteboarding (M/F), Multihull Class (Mix) Shooting Removed: All events; Air Rifle (M/F/Mix Team), Air Pistol (M/F/Mix Team) Sport climbing Removed: All events; Combined (M/F) Taekwondo Add: Team (Mix) Tennis Removed: All events; Singles (M/F), Doubles (M/F/Mix) Triathlon Removed: Relay (Mix) Weightlifting Removed: All events; M (-56kg, -62kg, -69kg, -77kg, 85kg, +85kg), W (-44kg, -48kg, -53kg, -58kg, -63kg, +63kg) Wrestling Beach Wrestling Add: M (-50kg, -60kg, -70kg, -80kg), W (-40kg, -50kg, -60kg, -70kg) Freestyle Remove: M (-48kg, -55kg, -65kg, -80kg, -110kg), W (-43kg, -49kg, -57kg, -65kg, -73kg) Greco-Roman Removed: M (-45kg, -51kg, -60kg, -71kg, -92kg) Wushu Add: Changquan Combined (M/F), Taijiquan Combined (M/F) In total we have dropped from 239 to 151 events. Olympic sports Canoeing, Field Hockey, Golf, Modern Pentathlon, Shooting, Sport Climbing, Tennis, and Weightlifting will not be involved in any matter while the non-Olympic sport of Karate was also dropped. Baseball/Softball, Dancesport, and Wushu are non-Olympic sports which will get to participate in some capacity. 22/31 Olympic sports will be present (surfing has yet to be involved at a Youth Olympics). I know we can't (or should) emulate the Olympic program, but hosts should try to include as many sports as possible, especially the relatively cheaper ones like shooting, sport climbing and weightlifting. The good thing is that it looks like the mixed NOCs events are gone (I think they mentioned this earlier).

Maybe the IWF is thinking the Olympics will increase the number of events to 7 or 8. The non-Olympic events were hurting the sport. Unlike in combat sports where they could hide the drop in talent of the non-Olympic events, weightlifting is a numbers sport and having events where the winner lifted less than the winner of a lower weight category is not a good look.

Well, it was nice being on top for a while, but I believe this will be our last week.

The mind games must have been intense during the C&J

Assuming this is a complete list, I'm surprised swimming only has so few.

Pretty crazy, just imagine if they won the World Baseball Classic (though personally I equate the two pretty closely).

Yeah, in general, the freestyle/classical switches each Olympics.

I believe, the IOC has admitted the cap will have to be relaxed for 2028. I think they will go with what you proposed. 10,500 for core sports plus some for extra sports

If lacrosse can be selected then I don't see why Australian rules football can't be selected if they get Olympic sport recognition. Australia will obviously dominate, but there's enough other nations to make a tournament. As for netball, a women's only event is still much more likely to be accepted than a men's only event. Australia and the netball federation can spin it as bringing equality to the number of men's and women's events (while obviously ignoring that there will be more women at the Olympics).

The US only had about 28 million for Paris 2024. It would take quite the advertising campaign to almost quadruple their viewership, even with a better timeslot.

Way too high. That's Super Bowl numbers for an event that's mostly watching athletes walking in, a bunch of speeches and a few performances sprinkled in. I enjoy it, but I understand most people wouldn't. As a comparison the 1996 Olympics had about 40 million US viewership, adjusting for population that puts it at around 48 million. Throw in fewer people owning a TV and this event not exactly bringing people to bars to watch, I would say if they broke 50 million it would be very successful

Taiwan wins gold. Quite the rebound after last years World Classic.

It's still early on, but I suspect cricket and baseball/softball have an early advantage. If they have a good tournament, I think squash may have a decent chance at returning despite not being really high on Australia's priority list. American Football and Lacrosse will likely remain North American sports in the future. Netball might make a play with a women's only event. I expect rugby nines to make a push to be added alongside sevens, but I don't think the IOC will add them. If Australian Rules Football gets added as an Olympic Sport then they are guaranteed to be added.

Depends what time they start. If it's the usual 8pm local start it will likely be lower since over half the country lives +3 hours ahead.