JoshMartini007

This is on "playing the wrong national anthem" levels of wrong. At least it's not another joke.

Panama's 10th inning loss to the Netherlands ultimately cost it a spot in the Super Round. Still, a great tournament for them. This is all the more reason to want a 12-team tournament at the Olympics.

You are correct. I was in this case, defending the ethnic-Chinese that were born in the nation they compete for. Looking at the 2024 Olympics, it seems less than 10% were Chinese-born competing for a different nation (this potentially includes athletes which immigrated to their nation as children). That may be a mild concern, but there are many sports like wrestling and some events in athletics where it is a lot worse. I think the difference is that there isn't a lot of money in table tennis outside of China. While there's not a lot in wrestling either, it is more spread out globally. A 4th rate table tennis player probably still makes more money competing in China than competing in a different place while a 4th rate Russian wrestler could make more money competing somewhere else. World Table Tennis is trying to globalize the financial part of the sport so it will be interesting to see if things change. They may have to incorporate these rules too.

Are you talking about Maria Xiao? She was born in Spain, grew up in Portugal before returning to Spain. That shouldn't count and definitely not the same as people moving to a country with no ties to compete

making the most of their debut.

Paris 2024 was horrible. Pictograms need to be easy to understand. 2026 is very easy to understand.

Yeah, Trump is very pro-Olympics. I imagine he's pretty excited that he will get to open the games Visas for some nations have always been tough and I do imagine some qualified individuals will fail to enter the United States (regardless who is President), but the IOC will likely sweep it under the rug.

The only way this works is if they try to emulate street hockey. But that already has their own sport federation.

As mentioned before, there's enough nations which play cricket for it to be Olympic viable. The challenge, like baseball/softball is the venue size.

India might be the big prize, but the IOC is quite interested in expanding across South Asia. When that region has 3/10 most populous nations and relatively low interest you should want to make an effort to bring in more people/money. Perhaps in a couple decades we'll see Pencak Silat or Dambe become an Olympic sport to bring in the or market respectively.

Is there some kind of delay for the stadium in LA? I guess New York time is slightly better than LA time for India...

Oof, no badminton and table tennis will ruffle some feathers. Sad no rugby sevens will be held...

As mentioned before, 3x3 hockey is not developed enough to be its own event and given the proposed size of teams it will literally be a B-level hockey tournament with likely the same teams as the full size. If they want to follow in basketball's footstep the team size should be 6 players, no padding outside of the goalie, and the game played on a street of a quiet neighbourhood. Maybe throw in a car every now and then to force the players to stop and clear the street .

A ceasefire agreement, no matter what it ends up looking like would likely be enough for the IOC to bring Russia and Belarus back and not wear egg on their face. Until then, we'll likely have a continuing participation of neutral athletes.

Sad, but expected.

The sporting world still mostly recognizes the government in exile

"once it returns to compliance" is a vague statement that means nothing. I don't think anyone, other than people scoring political points was suggesting Russia should be banned forever.

I imagine most of the venues from the 2014 Games are still available so most of the sports should return. Diving, shooting and triathlon were held outside the city and may be at risk of not being included. Additionally, 3x3 basketball, beach volleyball and cricket were held in 2022, but not 2014 so I imagine they might be at risk too.

Honestly, as long as the best continue to compete and humans remain interested in sport, the Olympics will continue to be one of the top events in the world. So unless the IOC president decides to piss off the athletics, swimming, and gymnastics federations to the point they want to create a rival Olympics or they force only amateur athletes to compete life will go on.

The IOC won't allowed it. The IOC already scammed World Skate by convincing them to be the world federation for skateboarding by saying maybe they will add some roller sports along with it only to deny everything else proposed.

I was about to joke that home field advantage strikes again, but I learned that they won away. Congrats

Many world ranking systems have the issue of more appearances = more points or in this case, all continental championships having the same point value regardless of talent within the continent.

Depends on if they were "renting" the information or "buying" it. Again, without seeing the contract we don't know what they can and cannot do.

I mean, they probably did (I would), but depending on the contract with the IOC, they may not be allowed to publish it elsewhere.

The IOC wanted ownership of the data collected by the group which means they didn't have that information in the first place. I hope the information and future ones aren't lost to time. It should be easier with the post-internet era.