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Swedish Trials for European Championship this week starting today. Hasselborg vs. Wranå, best of 7 matches. Live stream here: https://www.curling.se/tavlingar-och-resultat/em-kval-damer/livestream on the mens side Edin was selected based on ranking.

The most successful male alpine skiier Ingemar Stenmark today finished only 15cm from a medal at the World Masters Championship in pole vault for men 65+ (3.00m)

WA already thanks about this but in the other direction to make it lighter for Javelinas and shot put https://worldathletics.org/news/press-releases/pioneering-change-strategic-plan-2024-2027

Cool to be invited a few days before because Sweden etc declines and then use the opportunity to win everything!

Ended up in a 3 months suspension from competition

I like it!

Also change the rules so Every nation have a chance of having one athlete per weight class (if qualified) in weightlifting. Or remove because some classes might not get a worthy champion. for all sports I also like to have the athletics rules by 3 per nation. Even if a sport dominated by one country is Boring, how worthy is to be silver or bronze medalist just because the best nation had a limit on 1 or 2?

Haha it would still probably be 300+ events after my changes? sports not mentioned would still be kept untouched. a few exemples swimming - no need to explain Canoe slalom- how many people do that compared to how expensive the arena must be, when there are long distance events we could add instead track cycling - expensive arena and a very unavailable type of cycling that we don't need when we already have other cycling sports mixed team events: all mixed team events that are only invented by their sports federation because they know it is the best way to get another event accepted by IOC has no real reason to be there. I mean for those sports that are really individual sports mostly just combinimg scores from each individual. A mixed doubles is another thing, but mixed shooting is as un necessary as a mixed team high jump or discus Throw.

Combat sports: Never less than 5 kg gap between Weight classes Never allow Two bronzes. I like the idea of repechage round but just make the Two Winners of those games fight for one medal please. All racket sports: Should have a group stage/ranking round or repechage round (still only one bronze) to make the draw a bit less deciding. Table tennis: Change mixed doubles to mixed teams Change teams to doubles Shooting: Remove team events Remove gender divided classes at least in air Rifle/pistol Archery: Remove team events Athletics: Change the mixed relay to a longer distance that does not already have a relay. Remove repechage rounds. Swimming: Remove mixed relays or maybe just keep 4x100 Free if that would replace the regular 4x100 Free that would be removed. Only allow one change between heats and final. Remove semifinals. Remove 200m medley Maybe add some 50m strokes Canoe: Add longer distances Remove canoe slalom Maybe more focus kajak than canoe Flag football: Do not add Equestrian: Remove dressage Replace eventing with only the cross country part Football: Remove men or at least reduce the teams for men and increase for women. Basketball: Remove 3x3 Triathlon: Could add a distance Cycling: add short distance MtB Maybe remove BMX Remove track cycling Modern pentathlon: Make it a real modern event, maybe decathlon. surfing: remove Add sport: Powerlifting (raw): combined and bench press

Good options! I could think of my question in two perspectives: a) What would be the ultimate alternative to modern penathlon in the olympics or b) Best to get many people in a competiton and for having amateur events. For b, I would like the sports to be easy and accessible for most people to practice, therefore my maybe odd exmples as minigolf in this context instead of real golf or shooting. For that b-perspective I also think curling, ski jump, skeleton and rowing would be difficult. But for the a-perspective I would really appreciate to watch that kind of event in the olympics Combat sports are difficult if we don´t want the whole event being divided in to weight classes only for those disciplines.

Just like women. Or let the women have 16 teams. Those who actually cares about the olympics and especially has too few spots for Europe.

Inspired by the olympics, decathlon/heptathlon and modern pentathlon I was thinking about what sports could be included in a new "totallympicathlon" , "sportathlon" or whatever it could be called. The point is to have around 12 events to really say who is the ultimate sports-person. And the sports should be accessinble for most people to pratice, in comparison to modern pentathlon. I Ask first of all just for an interesting discussion about how an ultimate sports competition could look like but I am also a bit serious and dreaming about organising this kind of event for real some day. It should include endurance, power, speed, accuracy. some ideas of events: long jump shot put 3000 or 5000m running Cycling sprint 100m freestyle swimming bench press squat Table tennis badminton basketball penalties football skills such as dribbling course and hardest shot on target. mini golf i also thought about a team version where the teams play each other in these sports: volleyball football basketball probably floorball in a Swedish version 4x400m relay Of course there could also be a winter version! any thoughts?😃

If they must have mixed relays I would prefer a new distance that doesn't already have a relay. Maybe 800m. Why is it that the 400 m runners deserves two?

I like that proposal too! I could also like to get rid of semi finals on all distances, and only allow one change between heats and finals in relays. snd btw it could have at least doubled Sjöströms golds so yes ut would have been very useful with at least 50 fly (not biased)

What is wrong with having more than one event in the 50 meters when we have 5 individual events over 200m? Swimming should not have more events but what about having like cross country skiing to have maybe 2 strokes per distance (50-200) and change each olympics. 400m - only medley, 800 and 1500 only freestyle. I would also remove the mixed relays

In case of a failure, to have a back up to get revenge maybe?

My guess was 4 gold, 10 medals. Just missed out on one medal overall!

Olympic champs Åhman/Hellvig have withdrawn from the European Championship starting this week. Can't understand why they scheduled another Championship only a few days after the olympic final.

Swedish: Sjöström double but especially 100 free, Mondo and the unexpected Swedish silver medals in table tennis, not to far from golds either! and ofc beach volley gold under the Eifel tower International: Marchand, the upset in mens 1500m, the not shared gold medal in the jump of in men's high jump, Rooth in decathlon

Sweden 4-4-3. best since Sydney, first time 4 Golds since Athens and best ranking in medal standings (16th) since LA 1984 despite some horse jumping and handball failure

Sarah Sjöström goes for two world records in short course 50 Free and 50 fly in her own meet "Sjöström Invitational" in Stockholm tonight.

Article in Swedish but look at the pictures, is Ogunleye pushing from the ring in an illegal way? Carolina Klüft think it is. https://www.aftonbladet.se/sportbladet/a/o3KAA7/pekas-ut-for-fuskifinalen?utm_medium=SocialEchobox&utm_source=Facebook&fbclid=IwZXh0bgNhZW0CMTEAAR1Wdq-oP2vtt_FUFyyoObbRw3G3nbNQ4NbtGl6XoKotzC17fKmCiIY524U_aem_NBKvXbuQCiFOQwGOncE08A#Echobox=1723230741

Especially when it was obvious it was very close so should have looked at it immediately. But maybe so close they needed to look many times.

Weshe far over 20m?? How do they meassure? And Ogunleye and a few other cheating pushing from the top of the back of the circle in the start of the rotation?

2-3 2-3 2-3 loss by 0-3 but still 6 won games against China!!