De_Gambassi

On me glisse dans l'oreillette que ça manquait de Russes. Certes, mais c'est un sport en progrès depuis quelques années. Un espoir de podium en plus pour Paris ?

Première médaille de ces championnats pour la natation artistique Il s'agit de la première médaille internationale pour le collectif France depuis 2000 !

Ces championnats sont fantastiques ! C'est tout comme les Jeux ! On a même droit à Laurent Luyat et des blagues de très grande qualité made in France TV !

Je profite de ce "nouveau" forum pour initier un grand classique des forums: deviner la ville le stade (ou l'Arena, les bi-curieux sont les bienvenus). Pour ceux qui ne connaissent pas, le principe est des plus simple : une photo de stade est postée et il s'agit de deviner duquel il s'agit. C'est tout ! Celui qui a trouvé la bonne réponse doit à son tour poster une photo d'un autre stade. Des indices peuvent être donnés. Ca marche à la confiance, merci de ne pas tricher Score : - bestmen : 2 - De_Gambassi : 1

Est-ce que certains d'entre vous ont commencé à suivre ces championnats ? Est-ce que le concept marche de votre côté ? Pour moi, c'est clairement le cas (je viens de me taper une heure des qualif en BMX freestyle féminin). Des attentes particulières ?

Championnats Européens : Munich (+ Rome) Quand ? Du 11 au 21 aout Où ? Sur France TV, alternativement sur France 2/3/4 selon l'horaire Pourquoi ? On aura pas mieux avant Paris 2024

Le peuple s'est exprimé :

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 ?