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The french swimming federation has more than 300.000 members, around 60% are female. It's simply a minuscule discipline.

I only speak about women's water polo. Last year, France was ranked 9th at the world championships with a playing base of 500 members. This tells me everything I need to know about the complete lack of global reach of this sport and that it should not be anywhere close to be an olympic event. Doesn't mean there are no other disciplines as much under deserving as women's water polo (specially with LA 28 additional sports)

... That was not necessarily to be taken seriously.

Because, the sport allready has ten teams more than it deserves.

No quadruple! Take your loose team Norway!

I still find a bit off that IOC is pushing THAT hard against building a new sliding venue. Because if we don't build any new venue for the Olympics, then nobody is ever going to build any new venue for the sport. Period. And without new venues, the same set of countries is going to win olympic medals for ever and ever (and one in particular who happens to have 3 times more venues than anybody else). I understand Agenda 2020, the general economical/political context around the olympic games and that you can't ask for the same degree of universality of summer olympic sports. But still, if you basically give up on you only chance to grow the sport by building new venues in new countries, what's the point of the sliding events at the olympics ?

You are ridiculous.

Plus fort.

Golf sounds the most likely with Céline Boutier

There are no track in the country (outdoor or indoor). The one from Albertville was converted into an athletic one right after the Olympics.

Some info about the 2030 long track issue. One (new) option could be to use a temporary track in an already existing hall somewhere (anywhere really) and then reuse it as a training facility up into the mountains with limited costs for the french speed track program (which is currently being reinstalled by the roller sports federation). IMO, this would be the best case scenario as a permanent long track rink sounds very much like a dead option (who would want on its territory a huge infrastructure guaranteed to run at a multi-millions loss every year ?)

They are really pushing their luck... First, introducing a sport (or sports) that is (are) nowhere near deserving to be at the olympics for apparently local political reasons, then letting the athletes cap goes wild without concerns for future hosts and now asking for breaking the nation-states basis of participation. God, I wish IOC tells them to fuck off with their silly ideas (not going to happen obv).

AFL doesn't even have a proper World Cup. It's a world festival or something without an australien team. All these sports were and would be perfectly fine as demo sports as we used to have.

I don't see local politics in play with Tokyo and Paris choices. Not to the same degree anyway. Everyone were ok with Tokyo additional sport, they were borderline olympic sports that made sense in a japanese context. Since then, it has been a mess. I guess RL nine is a lock for 2032

That's local politics, which should not be IOC concerns. If IOC validates such a weak international sport, that would be a travesty of the olympic universal ideals.

I had a look at some Lacrosse numbers. Australia is by large the 3rd biggest Lacrosse country in the world with less than 5.000 registered players. I'd be surprised if there are more than 10.000 players worldwide besides the US and Canada. What an amazing deserving olympic sport.

Hopefully, this shit was their moment for many. Hopefully.

We are not talking about the CWGs, these sports are built around the Olympics, you simply can't have any of them on a rotation basis. And really, Judo on rotation ? The issue with martial arts is quite simple anyway, we have the wrong one Taekwondo should never have been an olympic sport to begin with. Without TWD, Karate would have entered the program at some point in the 90's and absolute no one would have asked for the introduction of TWD after.

Une stagiaire à France TV pourra en tirer un article et au moins 12 likes. C'est déjà ça de pris.

What a load of BS... Originally, the additional sports - who were part of the Agenda 2020 program whose sole purpose was to cut costs for the hosts - were a neat idea on paper. They were supposedly be a net-postive for the host using local sports popularity to ease the pain of hosting. Now LA, will have to build a freaking dam cricket stadium somewhere. It was never reported, but it's also very easy to assume Breaking entry for 2024 was IOC Bach's idea and only his. Basically, these additional sports have been turn into a way of expanding the olympic program and adding new sports, potentially huge cash makers for the organisation, without the political cost of dropping other established olympic sports.

They are for 2024. But if we are talking about 2 or 3 team sports for 2028, they probably won't be.

https://stadion-actu.fr/athletisme-frederic-dagee-reprend-sa-carriere-et-reve-des-jo-de-paris-2024/

Unless, they have changed the rules again. And the additional sports don't count in the 10,500 athletes limit.

How many athletes do you need to run two 6-teams cricket tournaments ?

And also athletes in established olympic disciplines who are cut because of the quotas limitation (I'm strongly thinking about canoeing slalom here) Honestly, there is little you can do with the current cap of 10,500 athletes and the olympic program as it is. You can tweek it a bit, but really, just a bit.