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10 minutes ago, JoshMartini007 said:

Yeah the IOC wants the UIPM to modernize and become more accessible, no where does it state they want them to remove jumping specifically. With that said, removing jumping would make the sport more accessible for athletes.

 

I personally would like a more continuous event, sort of like triathlon. Start with fencing to get a staggered time, change jumping to cross-country riding, after finishing, riders dismount and head straight to the pool and then finish off with running/shooting.

 

It's more like trying to find a creative way to justify the axe. Lack of "accessibility" is a perfect excuse to kill a sport off. Triathlon is largely boring like mass starts in cross country or flat stages in cycling. Everyone knows things will only happen in the last 2% of the course.

 

Cross country jumping is more dangerous than a show jumping parcour - you can't sell the idea of looking after animal's safety and replace the safer event with a more dangerous one. That one is DOA.

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4 minutes ago, Monzanator said:

 

It's more like trying to find a creative way to justify the axe. Lack of "accessibility" is a perfect excuse to kill a sport off. Triathlon is largely boring like mass starts in cross country or flat stages in cycling. Everyone knows things will only happen in the last 2% of the course.

 

Cross country jumping is more dangerous than a show jumping parcour - you can't sell the idea of looking after animal's safety and replace the safer event with a more dangerous one. That one is DOA.

 

It's true though, modern pentathlon has an accessibility problem and that will likely cause it to be removed from the Olympics. Sports aren't entitled to be in the Olympics. Throw in the fact that the governance is going the way of boxing/weightlifting in terms of transparency and the sport is looking less viable by the day.

 

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41 minutes ago, JoshMartini007 said:

 

It's true though, modern pentathlon has an accessibility problem and that will likely cause it to be removed from the Olympics. Sports aren't entitled to be in the Olympics. Throw in the fact that the governance is going the way of boxing/weightlifting in terms of transparency and the sport is looking less viable by the day.

 

Yet they promote surfing as "accessible" and a new urban craze? Half of the world doesn't even have access to open water and good luck trying to surf in Baltic or Northern Sea which are filthy cold 9 months per year. So where the hell do you you want to learn surfing? Ain't gonna happen in a public swimming pool :lol:

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4 minutes ago, Monzanator said:

Yet they promote surfing as "accessible" and a new urban craze? Half of the world doesn't even have access to open water and good luck trying to surf in Baltic or Northern Sea which are filthy cold 9 months per year. So where the hell do you you want to learn surfing? Ain't gonna happen in a public swimming pool :lol:

Surfing kind of lucked out, Japan, France, the United States and Australia are all big surfing nations (heck, even Brazil would have been a great spot in 2016). I agree surfing is a bit lacking in terms of competitive nations, but due to favourable hosts the sport has essentially 10 more years to develop. Accessible also doesn't need to mean all nations can take part or else you can argue that sailing should be removed. If the ISA can push for the development in the Africa, Central America, the Caribbean and the Pacific, it could remain long term.

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3 minutes ago, JoshMartini007 said:

Surfing kind of lucked out, Japan, France, the United States and Australia are all big surfing nations (heck, even Brazil would have been a great spot in 2016). I agree surfing is a bit lacking in terms of competitive nations, but due to favourable hosts the sport has essentially 10 more years to develop. Accessible also doesn't need to mean all nations can take part or else you can argue that sailing should be removed. If the ISA can push for the development in the Africa, Central America, the Caribbean and the Pacific, it could remain long term.

Not gonna happen. Sailing is a very expensive sport since you have to include the price of the boats. The poor teenager from Tunisia that drowned during training is basically a PR nightmare too. Caribbean is all about baseball & cricket - neither of which is an Olympic sport and baseball's return in Los Angeles will be a one-off IMO - and nobody is getting around that so ISA won't spend any money trying to expand the horizons in a market that has no interest in the expansion (how did Montreal Expos do with the baseball expansion?).

 

The ugly truth is, as long as a niche sport is popular in a few powerhouse nations it can be sold as "accessible" and nobody cares only former colonial powers in the Pacific region have genuine access to a sport like surfing. This whole "accessibility" excuse is what it is - an excuse wrapped around a bunch of nonsense. If you want to cut MP from Olympics just do it straight up - and don't use the "lack of accessibility" BS to justify the move.

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43 minutes ago, Grassmarket said:

Death sentence passed on Modern Pentathlon.

 

https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/modern-pentathlon/61573121

I feel it was already pretty dead once the IOC unceremoniously removed it from the list of core sports. Does anyone really think LA 2028 or Brisbane 2032 organizers are going to go to bat to make Modern Pentathlon one of their additional sport?

 

It's undeniably the Summer Olympic sport that provides the least bang for the buck for the IOC, and more than any other Summer sport (and arguably *any* sport other than the sliding sports) it's entirely dependent on the Olympics for it's survival.

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2 hours ago, Grassmarket said:

Death sentence passed on Modern Pentathlon.

 

https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/modern-pentathlon/61573121

lol, called it last year.

 

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As others have said, cycling would be a terrible idea.

 

Knowing that this is a "military sport" and riding was a "obstacle course", it would be interesting if they would have a military obstacle course as the replacement event. Maybe something similar to American Ninja Warrior. I am not joking, that would both be unique to this sport at the Games and it would be fun. It would also require different skills than the simple running + shooting event and it would make a lot of sense given the history and origins of modern pentathlon. 

 

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2 hours ago, NearPup said:

It's undeniably the Summer Olympic sport that provides the least bang for the buck for the IOC, and more than any other Summer sport (and arguably *any* sport other than the sliding sports) it's entirely dependent on the Olympics for it's survival.

Canoeing and sailing are right up there too.

#banbestmen

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3 minutes ago, dcro said:

Canoeing and sailing are right up there too.

Canoeing and Sailing have the advantage of still being Olympic sports until at least 2028, a luxury Modern Pentathlon wishes it had.

 

I think both Canoeing and Sailing are in grave danger of having the size of their program significantly downsized but I think both sports will remain in some form long term.

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