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Are they going to announce the sports one by one?

Good for beach-handball, excited to see team sports making the games, even if it's this "beach" format... European Games needed it.

No women's football....... The athletics events are a monstruosity. the programme is ugly- They took out a lot of things from previous years and didn't replace it with nothing.

Spanish press talking about 35 km race walk with a 2 men / 2 women team, adding times to determinate the winner

ok thanks. There was the small talk in Spain about the chance of Russia losing the right to compete in the Women's Rugby 7s final qualification tournament and maybe Spain taking their place....

there's no chance Russia Neutral Athletes would lose any already won quota after this, right?

Well that explains everything

Idk in other countrys, but events like Volvo Ocean Race and things like that are far more popular in Spain that any other sailing event. The Offshore event would have drawn some attention, at least here.

Also, they really dropped the ball wlth no mixed Artistic Swimming.....

So...... no team Golf, with one of the most exciting ideas. Sad. Mens road race needed a reduction and the womans an increse, good for that. Overall not bad, but nothing exciting.

So they only rhing they accepted was Extreme Canoe, literally the WORST option of the bunch

The racewalking thing hurts

Squash is meh. Bring back Basque Pelota and do a Trinquete competition instead. That would be fun,

Rowing in open waters. They propose to use the same venue as sailing for that. In Coastal Rowing there are no lanes and the races are longer (at least 6k). They have to rotate in buoys also.

A 10k event (that could be held in the stadium or in road) and a 30k road one. But it only would happend if the tecnology for a better judging could be tested and it was confirmed efective. If not, they would do 20k and 35k. So, basically, we don't know nothing.

A golf team event with a Match Play format would be amazing. It doesn't need new quotas and offers something completely different. I hope they asked that cause I can see it happening

To be honest, some changes aren't even bad. It's just others are REALLY BAD, so it overshadows other decent changes. Another Race Walk event for women is needed. High Diving is fine, I wouldt mind it taking Artistic Swimmings spot tbh. Ligthweigth rowing adds nothing to the games. Coastal rowing is a developed and entreteining sport completely different to anything already on. I support that change. Same thing with Sailing. I get people not liking "mixed events", but it kind of makes sense in Sailing, and it opens the door for other exciting boats. Same thing for Mixed Skeet or mixed time trial, I can live with it being in the games. Aything else, garbage.

What could have Fencing asked for? Mixed weapon mixed team (lmao) event? Any other sport missing?

BMX flatland is what they should have added instead of Breakdancing.

Elena Loyo - 2:28:25

By IOC rules, FINA had to focus more on fixing the umbalance issue at Artistic Swimming before trying to add something new. Same for FIG and Rythmic Gimnastics. Why try to add aerobics or parkour when men can't still compete at one of their sports? At least FINA is, slowly, working on that and male artistic performers can compete at World or European championships. I'm still waiting FIG does SOMETHING. We all know what would happend if an International Federation would directly refuse to let the one gender take part in an sport in any way........

In one hand I would love Cross Country in the summer olympics (I'm more of a road racing fan, rather than track). If they are gpoing to add it to the summer events they have to do it right. They should take 10000m out (cause nobody cares about it), an put a full race. That rellay doesn't make any sense. HOWEVER, id rather had cross country relay than 4x400 mixed. So if they change those events, I would be happy.

We wanted Ironman races not that thing...

Modern Pentathlon is sheeking approbal for a new competition format (the one I found rather odd...). They also proposed a mixed relay event. https://amp.marca.com/olimpismo/2020/10/27/5f98344d46163f39448b4620.html The idea is a 1 day event. All happening in 90 minutes and all in the same stadium (a gigant one, I imagine.....). Jumping now go first, and it would take only 20 minutes. Then is a 10 minute recess, then the fencing part, done with in 15 minutes. Anothger 10 minute break, 15 minutes for the whole swimming competition. Another 10 minutes rest ant the combined event.