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I guess they must believe that only the most hardcore of the hardcore would like to follow such a minor event. So why not ask them a bit of a mony. It won't change much the audience anyway.

Nils Allegre crying a bit during post race ITW. He is not forgotten.

It's not a prediction, it's a tool...

Totallympics german users meltdown ?

Again, it's not a projection. The've just counted medals, just like here (with a slighty different methodology and slighty different results)

https://www.insep.fr/fr/actualites/projection-jo-2020-la-france-à-la-7e-place (end of the page) Actually: the most interesting thing here is the comparison with 4 years ago.

They call it a 'projection' It actually comes from the french NOC who made it clear it was not some kind of a prediction of any sort.

Some of it, yes. It's very early stage anyway..

Not sure if it deserves it, but Barcelona is looking (again) to big for the 2030 games. They don't plan to built a sledding track, but to use the one we have in France. https://www.lavanguardia.com/economia/management/20190104/453927951140/olimpiadas-pirineus-barcelona-2030.html

Final Too bad, it doesn't count yet for Tokyo qualifications.

Since 1987, before that it developed an international game that any sport bar a few could ever dream of. Same with cricket. World cup/championship is not, nor it should be, the only option when we are talking about international sport.

Fine, world championship... It's a very short view to believe that every team sport should have a world cup/championship just because the major team sports have one. Something makes sense or doesn't. This doesn't. There is nothing necessary about this world championship. Not having a world cup/championship doesn't mean either you are cutting the sport from international matches. There are other ways. Take rugby union for most of this life as an exemple.

I don't really understand why every team sports under the sunlight should have a world cup. Many sports are clearly not international spread enough to warrant one. It should be ok not to have a world cup. This is not helping anyone. Just have yearly test series between the few countries who can actually play the sport, and a developpement world cup for the rest of the field.

That was more like bandy talking to itself about inclunding bandy at the olympics.

Do you have a link on that ?

If you want a winter olympic outside of Europe/ East Asia/ N-A you'd probably need to get rid first of the sledding and skating sports

If by requirements, you mean venues capacity. I don't believe it would make much of a difference. Many of the stands used are temporary nowadays (and are dirt cheap), and no one is going to build a 10,000 seats permanent ballpark anymore when there are hardly 10 baseball players in the whole country (Athens, hi) Besides, we have seen with Sion, that even a bid with no building requirements could fail. The problem goes deeper than that.

Whaaaaaaaaaaaat ?! that's fucking insane. That's robery, plain and simple.

Aparently, FIVB is asking $500K to host any of these tournaments. If so, then, there is no other word to call it but a fraud. I'm hopping that the IOC will step in at some point to stop this madness. OQT should not be used in any maner to bring back money into IFs pocket. https://www.onet.pl/?utm_source=sport_viasg&utm_medium=nitro&utm_campaign=allonet_nitro_new&srcc=ucs&pid=4c142e8b-25d6-48b1-ab83-b52b941845c7&sid=96fc7e4d-c74c-44d9-ab11-c24e6131b623&utm_v=2

IOC is also making a profit staging sports that doesn't cost much to have (infrastuctures and quotas wise). Which is defintly the case of squash. That's a - very - important part of the equation. Squash is not an huge money maker, but it does make money (which means there are people who cares about it somewhere), more so than quite a few olympic sports. Unfortunatly for you, that Monzanator has or has not watched any given sport in his lifetime is not (yet) an official critera for olympic inclusion.

Yeah, sure... I, for one, have zero interest in this sport, but I can distinguish (or at least trying) between one sport and another whithout relying on personnal/national biases...

If squash is niche, then a good amount of olympic sports is niche also. Squash actually has a pro tier whithout even being an olympic sport, contrary to some olympic sports who would be dead in a week if it was not for their olympic statut.

4) Could be set up in any iconic parisian landmak 5) Has a relative good youth appeal (it isn't skateboarding, but it's not pétanque either) 6) The international federation has a french president (can't hurt) It's basically thicking every boxes . BUT, it's squash, they should allready be in, yet they failed multiple times. They proved how shit they are at lobying the olympic mouvement. So who knows.