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Also my Top 20 Picks for LA 2028: (Most likely to get there. I’ll update it every year if I don’t forget ) 1) Baseball/Softball (obviously interest will be huge) 2) Surfing (established and huge part of LA culture) 3) Skateboarding/Roller Sports (same as Surfing) 4) Lacrosse (fastest growing sport in US, popular among youth, growing globally, Olympic history) 5) Mixed Martial Arts (most popular spectator martial art in US, amateur competition growing) 6) American Football (over 100 federations, most popular US sport) 7) Sports Climbing (established, not as popular in the US though as other sports) 8) Bowling (very popular activity, accessible to anyone, used to be huge spectator sport but viewership is down) 9) Karate (established, may face competition with MMA, but still very popular) 10) Powerlifting (to replace Weightlifting if doping problems don’t go away, which isn’t unlikely) 11) Jai Alai (US name for Basque Pelota, played often, large Mexican population in LA as well, federation needs to grow though) 12) Wakeboarding (also popular in LA but will likely have to compete with Surfing) 13) Pool/Snooker (sport huge, not necessarily among youth though) 14) Wushu (not specifically US or youth, but may be added for a change if MMA doesn’t work) 15) Netball (US is growing in this sport, huge lobby in Commonwealth countries, women-only) 16) Floorball (global youthful sport but not much in US) 17) Bodybuilding (at Pan Am Games, though many consider it not a real spectator sport) 18) Racquetball (at Pan Ams, but too many racket sports already) 19) Dance sports (at YOG, somewhat unique) 20) Polo (it’s a fun, special sport, could find appeal in time)

I agree with @De_Gambassi‘s predictions. I’m not too sure about surfing since it’d have to be held awhile outside of Paris (or, god forbid, indoors) and it’s not quite as popular in France as Karate or Sport Climbing, so maybe I’d say 5/10. Boules, well, it’s hard to think of a sport that’s LESS youthful! But yeah I think it has a shot. It’s still popular and appears to have a strong campaign behind it. For Basque Pelota it would need to be played in 70 countries to become Olympic but its only played in about 30 Now for some other sports: Cricket (6/10)- Is the third most watched sport in the world behind football and baseball. Has a huge global presence, not just a Commonwealth game anymore. Would give the Games a huge new audience from eg. the Indian subcontinent. Also there is a historical link (France would be the defending silver medalists from 1900 ). Pretty attractive to watch and can be staged on most existing sports fields. BUT there is some opposition in the ICC so uncertain if they will bid. Cricket seems to evade Games (only at Commonwealths once and Asian Games twice before). Plus it would be odd organizing the UK/Ireland/West Indies teams. And there probably wouldn’t be much popularity among French spectators. Billiards (3/10)- France has a traditional version, Carom, which could be held alongside less known events such as Snooker. Snooker has a huge global audience as well. Nothing preventing the best players from showing up. Is unique, both a precision and strategy sport, which the Summer Games does not have. Easy to host, too. BUT has many of the problems boules has. Slightly better image but still considered more of a game than a sport. Plus lacks the base in France that boules has (though has a much wider world one). Snooker non existent there. Simply doesn’t have much up on boules at the moment. Wushu (2/10)- Only major traditional martial art to not be in Olympics so far. Has 144 federations, is cheap to host and fun to watch. Has applied for Games multiple times, said they’re ‘feeling optimistic’ about this year. BUT no tradition in France or indeed out of Asia. Karate would be much, much more successful on every front. I think those were all the seriously competing sports. Theyre also thinking of bringing back C2 in canoeing. They held a ‘mixed C2 event’ in Prague recently... don’t like that at all. If they can just develop it among women we can have two C2 events, maybe in time for 2024. Shooting 50m prone is most likely to return (some women shoot it). Double trap nearly impossible. 50m pistol is love to see back most- but no female equivalent. Maybe if women started shooting rapid fire pistol, they could get that event and men could get 50m. There will probably be women’s Greco Roman wrestling too. Last summer discipline to not include women. They said they’re working on it for 2024. Hope it’s rewsonably competitive though. The problem with all these new events is that non competitive ones are wastes of quotas. At least in the Summer Games. Also mixed synchronized swimming would be interesting. I think they’ll do it for sure. Not in Tokyo but that’s probably because it’s too new. It’s already at the FINA World Champs.

https://www.insidethegames.biz/articles/1051981/exclusive-almost-impossible-for-some-axed-events-to-return-to-olympics-issf-president-says They’re looking at the 50m prone and other events to possibly come back too. Just need women to start doing them...

Greenland single mix relay??

What’s with Bruna’s name change? And apparently the IBU Cup will have a ‘super sprint’ now. Interesting.

No speed skiing. It was a long shot to begin with, though I'm gutted all the same. But, if Sion wins the 2026 Games, they have a nearby venue (Verbier) that last hosted the World Cup four years ago. Fingers crossed! Ladies' Nordic Combined really seems a shoe-in. I really don't like mixed teams all that much, I'd rather have a 3-person ladies' competition for ski jumping or something. Or even a ladies' large hill- I know they don't jump it as much in the World Cup, but they do on occasion, and they will likely do so more in the coming years. Big Air could be good but not nearly as interesting as Aerials. Totally opposed to the freestyle and team events (except possibly snowboard cross) and alpine skiing parallels. They add nothing new. Telemark could be interesting somewhat. Not many people know what it is though. It would be interesting if the FIS proposed Grass Skiing for the Summer Olympics!

Could be good news for the athlete from Ghana, too. As it stands he's over 100th, and needs to be in the top 60. UPDATE: This is the Men's Skeleton Ranking List, but I've included only the top 3 athletes from each nation. Not sure if they would all count or if only the top 3 athletes from the top 2 NOCs would count, but this is the worst-case scenario for the Ghanian, and he still makes it (though only just) in the top 60. Since there are no other Africans- he just needs to hold his position and he's made it. 1 KOR YUN Sungbin 435 2 LAT DUKURS Martins 435 3 GER JUNGK Axel 392 4 RUS TRETIAKOV Alexander 376 5 LAT DUKURS Tomass 368 6 RUS TREGUBOV Nikita (Junior) 344 7 GER GROTHEER Christopher 336 8 AUT GUGGENBERGER Matthias 296 9 USA ANTOINE Matthew 288 10 GER GASSNER Alexander 248 13 CHN GENG Wenqiang (Junior) 230 14 KOR KIM Jisoo 224 15 CAN GRESZCZYSZYN Dave 224 16 CAN BOYER Kevin 224 18 GBR WYATT Marcus 206 19 NZL THORNBURY Rhys 202 20 RUS KULIKOV Pavel 202 21 GBR PARSONS Dominic Edward 196 22 CAN ROONEY Patrick 188 26 USA WEST Greg 170 27 USA DALY John 168 29 UKR HERASKEVYCH Vladyslav (Junior) 152 31 KOR JUNG Seunggi (Junior) 150 32 GBR RICE Jeremy 149 35 AUS FARROW John 142 36 AUT AUER Alexander 140 39 LAT NETLAUS Krists (Junior) 140 40 ESP MIRAMBELL Ander 136 44 JPN MIYAJIMA Katsuyuki (Junior) 125 46 ITA CECCHINI Joseph Luke 120 47 AUT MAIER Samuel (Junior) 120 48 JPN TAKAHASHI Hiroatsu 118 50 SUI AUDERSET Ronald 110 54 JPN SASAHARA Yuki 100 58 ROU VELICU Dorin 88 62 ISR SELIGSTEIN Joel 83 63 SUI ROHRER Marco 81 66 AUS TIMMINGS Nicholas 72 67 SWE OTTOSSON Rasmus 72 68 ISR EDELMAN Adam 71 71 ITA RETTENMYER Nicholas Adam 70 73 CHN YAN Wengang (Junior) 68 75 AUS TIMMINGS Dean 66 77 SUI GRAF Riet 66 80 ITA SCHWAERZER Manuel (Junior) 59 82 NOR HESTENGEN Alexander (Junior) 58 87 CHN CHEN Wenhao (Junior) 52 88 POL JAKOBCZYK Michal (Junior) 50 89 ISR SIDNEY Lawrence 50 90 LUX BAUER Jeff 48 91 ROU PACIOIANU Mihai Daniel (Junior) 48 94 ROU ENACHE Mihail Sebastian (Junior) 42 95 IRL DOYLE Brendan 42 96 JAM WATSON Anthony 38 97 TPE CHIANG Chun-Hung (Junior) 38 98 NOR HANSSEN Alex 36 99 BUL BANGIEV Marin 34 100 NOR SCHEIE Hakon (Junior) 34 102 POL POLYVACH VLADYSLAV (Junior) 28 106 GHA FRIMPONG Akwasi 24 107 SWE SAHLIN Ludvig (Junior) 23 108 SLO LORENCIC Denis 22 109 SWE ADLERS Carl (Junior) 20 110 NED ZEEGERS Bram (Junior) 20 119 MEX SOSA Reynaldo Arturo 11 120 NZL DELLA SANTINA Joe 9 121 ESP BELLVER CATALAN Sergi (Junior) 5 122 BRA PADUA Guilherme Augusto da Cunha 3 123 BEL FREELING Colin (Junior)

That's great! I think it's too late for accreditation now, but I definitely think we'll see them next time.

Helmy told me his federation wouldn't let him unfortunately He is now going to try for 2022, which he said is his 'realistic' goal anyways. What has to happen is for a certain number of skiers to actually be active before the Egyptian Olympic body approves the federation. They did just build an indoor ski slope, so it's a start. I said he might be better off representing Algeria or Sudan or something and he said no, it's Egypt or nothing. As for Jordan I wrote them a couple of additional times, but they haven't replied. Since they weren't on your accreditation list, I doubt be possible for them to compete anyways. But again from their email they seemed 2022 was their objective. Haiti wrote me back just now after 2 months (lol). And they have a 'secret project'! Sorry to answer 2 months after your message but sometimes, with new technology, Emails are going in the wrong files. We are just starting the new season so we pay more attention at this time. Haiti will probably not compete in the 2018 Olympics. We could have Ski, but our only 2 racers who could have any chance (Benoit ETOC and Celine MARTI www.facebook.com/haitiski ) have difficulties to be present. We planned also to have a new winter sport for Haiti, skating but the Haitian winter spirit is too young to accept that. We have a skater (Maxime Billy FORTIN that took part to the French skating gala one year agowww.youtube.com/watch?v=u4u7qmYzZ58 ), but not the federation until now. But: In ski, we have some younger Haitians (until 13yo) that can maybe compete for Haiti. The best and closest goal could be LAUSANNE 2020, the young Olympics game. Then we can have also the skater. And we have also another secret project but we need a lot of money to develop it. Best regards Thierry MONTILLET

Well, they've never fielded an actual Azerbaijani, ever. Maybe they'll realize they have to actually start developing something in their own country instead of shopping for athletes.

Ah okay. That makes more sense! Though in the WC ranking this year, they omit the lowest score anyway.

Our athlete Vojtech Loudin qualified for the 1500m despite being ranked 52nd. (49th if you could extra athletes) Must have been a lot of reallocations. Or I'm not understanding the system right. http://shorttrack.sportresult.com/Rankings.aspx?evt=11213100000003&rep=15127 Fun fact: Singapore actually had a quota in 2014 in 1000m. Similar qualification style to Goh. But the athlete wasn't very competitive. She did 500m in 58 seconds, so they probably rejected the quota.

Yeah Goh was like 10 seconds behind in the semifinal, so she wouldn’t have been close otherwise. There must have been four people battling and Warakomska brings down two of them. Sport is so funny sometimes.

From what it looked like I think she got lucky and everyone in front of her in Shanghai fell. But that’s part of sport and it’s great for her.

I think you are right!

Realistically I doubt he’d have made it anyway Maybe because of this he might try in 4 years

Indonesia will take part in the World Cup in Korea for the first time! According to to the athlete. I kind of told him to look into it. So glad for him that the federation signed him up. 2022 Olympics here we come!

Ok I voted

Oh, what the heck. I’ll try for now- Challenge accepted. Listening to songs now..

Hi- I’m overseas, busy and don’t have computer access. I will this evening though so I will vote, don’t worry. When is the deadline and do I just message you my choices?

Could you link the list please?

I emailed both Guatemala and Am. Samoa recently. Guatemala said they wouldn’t compete, American Samoa was targeting bobsled but in 2022/2026. Interesting. Shame about Algeria too. Though I think they could make 2022 they have a young alpine skier who could improve.

I guess she’ll be out by a fraction of a point. Unless someone else gets injured. Either way, would be a sad scenario.

What is the Swedish Olympic Committee’s limit for the female skater?

True. I was thinking the evening games would be in the afternoon but in California etc it would be quite early. Not to mention earlier games. Yeah but they may not have scored from it. A bit parallel to Suarez' move against Ghana. I know the replaying of matches is very rare, I'm just speculating on what the US FA will try and push.