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This is what I dont get. If criquet is going to be held 4.000 KM away from the Olympic Village, why reduce the tournament into a 6 team event? 
 
I get the reduced quotas for LA, but having a 10 team event in New York should be no problem. They should take advantage of having multiple host cities to manage athletes numbers better. Same thing for Softball, that is going to be host in another big city far away from LA....

I mean, there are plenty of Olympic sports and events that cater very specifically to North America, East Asia and (especially) Europe, I don't think it's a bad thing to have one sport that caters to the Indian subcontinent. Especially since that's more people than North America and Europe combined.
 
Also, IMO on the merrits cricket is definitively worthy of Olympic inclusion.

This is what I dont get. If criquet is going to be held 4.000 KM away from the Olympic Village, why reduce the tournament into a 6 team event? 
 
I get the reduced quotas for LA, but having a 10 team event in New York should be no problem. They should take advantage of having multiple host cities to manage athletes numbers better. Same thing for Softball, that is going to be host in another big city far away from LA....

This is what I dont get. If criquet is going to be held 4.000 KM away from the Olympic Village, why reduce the tournament into a 6 team event? 
 
I get the reduced quotas for LA, but having a 10 team event in New York should be no problem. They should take advantage of having multiple host cities to manage athletes numbers better. Same thing for Softball, that is going to be host in another big city far away from LA....

This is what I dont get. If criquet is going to be held 4.000 KM away from the Olympic Village, why reduce the tournament into a 6 team event? 
 
I get the reduced quotas for LA, but having a 10 team event in New York should be no problem. They should take advantage of having multiple host cities to manage athletes numbers better. Same thing for Softball, that is going to be host in another big city far away from LA....

Alvaro Martin, gold and bronze 2024 Olympics medalist suddenly retires at the age 30

Karate and Breakdancing where both equaly terrible

Karate and Breakdancing where both equaly terrible

- I would love for a Mountain Running event in the Mountain Bike course.

- Freestyle 1500m series are long and boring. I would remove the event and change it to a Open Waters short event, even maybe a relay? 4x200 should be a direct final with the best 8 teams.
 
- Mixed duet in Artistic Swimming should be in LA. And also Men's Rhytmic Gymnastics is so needed. Same for Women's Grecorroman. If sports can't have parity can't be in the olympics, that's my take.
 
- I wouldn't be mad if they changed Boxing for Kickboxing.
 
- Cricket and Baseball/Softball should be a 10 team tournament at least, and part of the core programme in the Olympics.
 
- Karate was the most boring event in Tokyo, is good out of the Olympic Programme. If another contact sport is wanted, Wushu is the correct option.
 
- I don't mind each host selecting some events, but to an extent. Maybe just events, and not whole sports? IDK. I live with fear of Brisbane choosing Netball and that weird version of Rugby only them play.
 
- Men's football should be down to 12 teams.
 
- I want that Sailing Off-Shore event they wanted for Paris back. Find a way to work around it, but it sounded amazing.
 
- I'm okay with Ligthweight-Rowing dissapearing. But they shound change it for Coastal Rowing instead.
 
- I want a long distance Canoe/Kayak event.
 
- 4x400 mixed in Athletics doesnt work. I would rather it change for a Medley Distance Relay or something among the lines. Also, Women's 400 Hurdles need higher hurdles, they are to low and it isnt a challenge for athletes anymore. It's just basically 400m 2.0.
 
- Out with Equestrian. It's 2024, no need to put animals through it. And why is the best event (cross country race) not an individual event?
 
 
That's all that I can think about.
 
 

It's not about 'math' it's about predictability - the men's basketball is every bit as uncompetitive as the synchro diving. Your issue seems not to be with predictable medals but predictable Chinese medals - predictable US ones are A-ok with you.
 
Screw that, it's just jingoism.

- I would love for a Mountain Running event in the Mountain Bike course.

- Freestyle 1500m series are long and boring. I would remove the event and change it to a Open Waters short event, even maybe a relay? 4x200 should be a direct final with the best 8 teams.
 
- Mixed duet in Artistic Swimming should be in LA. And also Men's Rhytmic Gymnastics is so needed. Same for Women's Grecorroman. If sports can't have parity can't be in the olympics, that's my take.
 
- I wouldn't be mad if they changed Boxing for Kickboxing.
 
- Cricket and Baseball/Softball should be a 10 team tournament at least, and part of the core programme in the Olympics.
 
- Karate was the most boring event in Tokyo, is good out of the Olympic Programme. If another contact sport is wanted, Wushu is the correct option.
 
- I don't mind each host selecting some events, but to an extent. Maybe just events, and not whole sports? IDK. I live with fear of Brisbane choosing Netball and that weird version of Rugby only them play.
 
- Men's football should be down to 12 teams.
 
- I want that Sailing Off-Shore event they wanted for Paris back. Find a way to work around it, but it sounded amazing.
 
- I'm okay with Ligthweight-Rowing dissapearing. But they shound change it for Coastal Rowing instead.
 
- I want a long distance Canoe/Kayak event.
 
- 4x400 mixed in Athletics doesnt work. I would rather it change for a Medley Distance Relay or something among the lines. Also, Women's 400 Hurdles need higher hurdles, they are to low and it isnt a challenge for athletes anymore. It's just basically 400m 2.0.
 
- Out with Equestrian. It's 2024, no need to put animals through it. And why is the best event (cross country race) not an individual event?
 
 
That's all that I can think about.
 
 

Football down to 12 teams or even eight. No one cares about it at Olympics. Although I love football, I don’t even know who won the medals as it’s basically a junior event. 
 
Karate no, most boring event I watched. 
to compare taekwondo with karate shows you have no clue. Actually I think taekwondo needs more quota as it is one of the most universal sports at Olympics. 16 per category is too little considering they merge categories for Olympics. Same for wrestling. 
 
Boxing out, too much corruption. They need a break. 
 
Penthatlon out. Without equestrian will be a joke event. 
 
cricket, I don’t need it, but let’s see how it works in LA. 
 
baseball: if the Major league doesn’t participate out, would mean out for softball as well. 
 
sports as fencing and gymnastics need a new qualification system as it favors too much the big nations/teams. 
 
artistic swimming out if there is no male event. Same applies unfortunatly to GR wrestling. And Rhytmic gymnastics. If we want equality then everywhere please. 
 
cyling track: too many events, cut it. 
 
I think squash deserves a chance. Breaking is gone good. Flag football is a joke. Padel will come in 2032 or 36, great to watch. 
 
and we need a different qualification system in general for Australia/NZL, too many free quotas. 
 

 

 
 

I noticed no one metioned it during/after the men's marathon, but Yaseen Abdulla  placed 33rd in his first ever competive marathon (time: 2:11:41). 

4 x 200 needs to lose the semifinals. There arent enough strong teams for that. Make a direct final and that's it.

Or it's continously crashing app

Personally I am *extremely* pro cross country running, cyclocross and snow volleyball being added to the Winter Olympics (and raising the athlete cap to like 4k).

Damn, seeing her crying like that broke me

The official site is so severly lackluster that they aren't even listing the start time of each invidiual heat. I mean, why do I have to look up a pdf document to see when a rowing heat starts, why can't they also list that on the webpage of the heats? 

So the candidates are:
 
 Ebden / Peers
 Gillé / Vliegen
 Pavic / Matic
 Pavlásek
 P. Tsitsipas
 Bopanna / Balaji
 Nedovyesov
 Cabral
 
And a bunch of  guys, but knowing their federation...
 
 
And NONE of them has a singles ranking ijbol
 
 

And in men's -50kg one of  is going to win a medal when there are like 10 boxers that are better than any of them
 
 
It's a joke honestly, even if my country gets a medal, this draw is a shame

Such person does exist but that's a Swedish chair umpire (Louise Azemar Engzell)

According to the Olympics web, the Alternate for Murray would be  UZAMUR ANGZALL Lioesa, a tennis player google sais it doesnt exist 
 
https://olympics.com/en/paris-2024/results/tennis/men-s-singles/r64-002300--

Daniela Terol, who was first alternate is going to be a last minute replacement for someone who cant compete

Mixed doubles list!!