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An international swimming championship in an outside pool with the sun rising

The interview of the swiss guy running the show is interesting, I didn't know they had an athletes cap (4700). He says that if the event was to grow further than that, they would have to build an athletes village. Possibly, the future of these games championships would be be to split it further between multiple hosts. This way, it would leave the opportunity for federations to move wherever they wish, you won't have to build anything, and you pretty much can add as many sports as you want. From a telespectator point of view, it wouldn't change much anyway.

Kinda. We will have daily coverage on our public television, but mostly on a secondary channel. For sports outside of athletics, it will make a massive difference with the coverage they usualy get during their Euros. I don't watch TV outside of sport, so I don't really know if they promoted it in a big way these last days. On today's l'Equipe there were seven pages presenting the event. BTW: European Athletics is fucking retarded. They believe they won't lose anything by going solo in the future. Sure because, we all know, the athletics world championships are as popular as athletics during the olympics

team. After one of the weakest ever team sent in Oregon, this one with 101 members will be the biggest in history ! It's labelled as the beginning of a new cycle. https://www.athle.fr/asp.net/main.html/html.aspx?htmlid=6386 For the 2015 crowd, no Christophe Lemaitre though .

Later process. These disciplines are already covered by established olympic federations. This is about new federations trying to enter the 2028 program.

I know the feeling And yes, cricket is hugely popular in a few countries, but then its popularity drops off a cliff. Anyway, there is no defintive way to judge of one sport popularity. So one knows, and I don't even really care neither(the trap of arguing stuff on the internet )

Depends on how you look at it, outside the test nations*, cricket is basically a non entity and it's played (when it's played) only by people coming from cricket nations. Handball, field hockey, water polo have domestic traditions in many more countries (often small, but still). Cricket is a sport still alien to 90% of the nations of the world. *Please that someone don't give me the exemple of the Netherlands

Is it ? That doesn't seem likely from that article : https://www.insidethegames.biz/articles/1125771/team-sports-difficult-task-olympic-dream

That's a good point, bur with climbing, skateboarding and surfing in (and likely, baseball/softball) it doesn't make for many quotas to spare (an hundred or so) EDIT: With Boxing, MP and Weightlifting out, we are saving 444 quotas from Paris program, plus the 32 from breaking not guaranteed to be at LA. Assuming we will have Baseball/Softball with the same format as in Tokyo, it left us with 242 quotas for any other additional sports and/or any of the three sports left out to make a come back. That's really not a lot... EDIT2: With these numbers, it hard to see how boxing could feature in LA.

Where did you find the projected results ?

https://www.forbes.com/sites/tristanlavalette/2022/04/29/as-plans-gain-steam-for-a-major-ground-in-orange-county-cricket-eyes-los-angeles-olympic-bid/?sh=4dbc1b1f2dea There is a project to build a cricket stadium in the region, so I guess there is that. Still a weird list : Some of the usual suspects are missing (Wakeboarding, snooker...); I thought motor sports were banned from the olympics ; Lacrosse a sport basically played in two countries; flag football still in very early stages. Besides any new sport will have to fit into the 10,500 athletes quotas which makes virtualy impossible for a new team sport to enter. Weird.

You are talking about LA additional sports here, right ?

I still can't believe this shit is going to be an Olympic event.

It's kinda cool to have all these categories at once. It makes for a solid (tele)spectator experience with no breakups

They really didn't even try for your country. Somewhere, there is a Friesland regionalist reading this map and feeling very disappointed at the moment.

How to have "fun" in the new normal Russia: draw maps !

Parade of nations by geographic area ? Is it always the case ?

Well, two years later it was still "coming home", so I'm not sure what was supposed to come home this time Nice song(s) anyway.

Youtube stream is live I have no idea what I'm watching.

Why not a new thread (or one for women cycling) ?

If that's legally possible : yes ! (or at least the amount of cash put on medicine every year)

That's factually wrong... They do have a team about that (and a medical one, and a research one, and a high performance one, etc.). Granted I don't how big they are or how efficient they are. That's the thing, we don't know how much the storyline of how much professional a team is or is not is true. There is something UCI could relatively easely do and that will help with the credibility of cycling is to ask for and publish every year the accounts of every pro cycling teams. By itself, it should help to reduce the grey/illegal area and it would also allow the public to know what are the real differences in research/performance/material/whatever between teams and how much of this storyline is true.

Actually, I was reading a bit of the wielerforum in the last couple of days for curiosity sake and there is a couple of guys who don't buy the Team JV hyper domination, orange or not. In Belgium, one would be immediately stripped of his nationality if he was questioning the real TDF winner.

Funny, in francophone Belgium at least, France is claimed to be a very chauvinist country (contrary to Belgium obviously)

Well, one (gold) medal is clearly not that great. But considering the team we had there, that's was kinda expected with only two solid medal hopes (Kevin Mayer and Quentin Bigot). Honestly, I was fearing we would come empty hand for the fist time since 1993, but Drama Mayer cleared that for us on the last day. 9 Finals is better than expected, and we discovered 2 two new medal hopes for the future (Wilfried Happio in the 400mh and the men's 4*100 relay) and also that Lavillenie is not dead yet. On the placing table, we end up with 32 points which is slightly better than Doha and Tokyo. Munich can't come soon enough. Plenty of new faces will be there on the road to Paris 2024 LA 2028.