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Other random stuff that comes to my mind Team Sports : - Rink Hockey (traditional 'roller hockey' on quad rollers, so much better) - Netball (women's only) - Futsal !!!!! - Beach Football - Proto-Football (Soule, etc; need someone to come up with rules) - Cycle Polo (or anything 'polo' really) - Pesäpallo (if the Fins find someone to play against) Ball & Hands ; - Basque Pelota - Real Tennis ('jeu de paume', the grandaddy of all of them) - One-Wall - International Game (which mixes the various indignegous european local paume games) etc. It's endless really.

Why using your hands when you can use your feets Sports Futnet Footvolley Teqball Sepak Takraw

I'm using my voting preferences to add Rugby League Nines and Futnet as team sports. And also I'm proposing we come up with a combined AFL and GAA football event like it used to exist.

Tumbling defintely, (speed) Parkour potentially at some point in the future and that's it. Not, I don't enjoy some other world games disciplines (fistball, fin swimming, lyonnaise or my dear canoeing polo), but realy everything else doesn't seem like olympic material to me. Too much niche, too much weird, too much redundant, too much artistich or leisurish and not enough sportish, etc.

It looks very much like the same medals table than last time with only China propelled to top spot (only 10th in 2022) and the USA dropping a bit. Leaving these two countries aside, the ranking of -> -> -> -> is exactly the same as it was in Birmingham

Fantastic insight, loved it, thank you very much.

I think you've missed that... https://www.france24.com/en/live-news/20250812-italian-athlete-dies-at-world-games-in-china

What's the story behind Korfbal(l) anyway ? I know it's old, but is it a derivative of the early basketball game (like the various football codes around the world) or is it an native dutch game that somehow evolved like basketball ? Or maybe a bit of both ?

"Sandrine" = "Karen"

Thai pétanque players training seven hours a day according to "her" Edit: They are worth it

If it's only about remaining the current naming rights of the major professionnal venues and not getting corporate names for everything and anything, I'm OK with that.

I'm trying, but it's very hard ! Are there any future events in the list ? Maybe, you could post the list of the events you chose to make it easier.

Do we expect the results of the points race before Karlsruhe 2029 ?

The one you are talking about is not péanque , but boule lyonnaise, which as its name will tell you comes from Lyon and not the Porvence area. Traditionnaly, it's as much cig and booze compatible as the other one. But, they have been trying this 'sport' thing for some decades, thus, the running bit. Internationnaly, there is only one federation running both 'sports', but in France, at least, there are two different differations.

Crazy stuf from the team. First semi final in 55 years ! Too bad, it's one year too late

https://www.swr.de/swraktuell/baden-wuerttemberg/karlsruhe/world-games-karlsruhe-finanzierung-weiter-unklar-100.html I haven't found any figures on the budget of Chengdu (the surprise ), but the one for 2029 sits for now at 120 M€ (and is not secured yet btw). Obv, a fraction of the OGs, but I wonder how it compares to stuff like the PanAm games or the CWGs who look like two tiers above.

The World Games are a bit weird, aren't they ? The budget to host the event must be quite high (30 sports and venues, 4,000 athletes...) with the video platform to boradcast everything. But it looks like they cheap out on every other metrics that could enhance the spectator experience by a lot and without costing a ton (graphics, a few more presentators that have a somewhat knowledge of the sports they're commentating, a website not stucked in 1999, etc.)

Just watched some squash. It was kinda awfull. 80% of points of the last set were awarded on obstructions calls (including a simulation straight from the worst of football) Is it always like this ?

I really would like to know a bit of their story. There is no way, one would expect Namibia to be that good in such a sport.

You misspelled 'awesome' I think.

And if anyone is asking. He is actually from Monaco, born and raised there, son of the cyclist federation president. There are only 9,000 or so Monaco nationals.

According to french twitter, it is.

Considering, they were a bunch of 50 or 60 years olds, it's probably ok. Still, not something I enjoyed watching...

My pleasure Anyway, with swimming becoming somehow a 50 golds sport Gymnastics should be allowed to add a couple of events...

Yes, but we gonna get instead a brand new - and very exciting - mixed event in gymnastics allowing the same athletes winning more medals doing the same thing again ! So, so much better.