vinipereira 3,046 Posted August 18, 2021 #1141 Share Posted August 18, 2021 4 hours ago, opruh said: Olympics is losing popularity fast, no one will bat an eye at the removal of weightlifting. They can even remove swimming and no one will care except for swimmers. Sad reality but it's time to accept that the olympics is a relic of the past. Social phenomenon like TikTok already replaced the olympics in the hearts and minds of the youth. That's simply not true. NBC even paid to have Swimming in the time slot they wanted. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dodge 692 Posted August 18, 2021 #1142 Share Posted August 18, 2021 6 hours ago, opruh said: Olympics is losing popularity fast, no one will bat an eye at the removal of weightlifting. They can even remove swimming and no one will care except for swimmers. Sad reality but it's time to accept that the olympics is a relic of the past. Social phenomenon like TikTok already replaced the olympics in the hearts and minds of the youth. And before tiktok it was snapchat, before that Instagram, before that twitter, before that Facebook, before that chat rooms and before all of them video games and before that even TV was being talked about as a reason for ‘the youth’ being less interested in sport People have more choices than ever before but sport and the Olympics is still huge merlinsbeard 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
heywoodu 13,540 Posted August 18, 2021 #1143 Share Posted August 18, 2021 10 hours ago, George_D said: Olympics are for all fans all over the world not for those from France only.. Absolutely, but I think it's fair to say weightlifting is, globally speaking, just not a huge sport in terms of viewing numbers. There's a strong and dedicated following, but I truly wonder which percentage of all the Olympic viewers watched even one second of weightlifting in the past few Olympics. If you'd like to help our fellow Totallympics member Bruna Moura get to the 2026 Winter Olympics, after her car crash on the way to the 2022 Olympics, every tiny bit of help would be greatly appreciated! Full story and how to help can be found here! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Orangehair43 172 Posted August 18, 2021 #1144 Share Posted August 18, 2021 28 minutes ago, heywoodu said: Absolutely, but I think it's fair to say weightlifting is, globally speaking, just not a huge sport in terms of viewing numbers. There's a strong and dedicated following, but I truly wonder which percentage of all the Olympic viewers watched even one second of weightlifting in the past few Olympics. It seemed reasonably popular in the UK as the BBC had two dedicated commentators cover the highlights of every final including the majority that had no British participants. For some sports like Artistic Swimming the highlights used OBS commentators. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dcro 10,179 Posted August 18, 2021 #1145 Share Posted August 18, 2021 What on earth does popularity have to do with weightlifting's current situation? #banbestmen Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Orangehair43 172 Posted August 18, 2021 #1146 Share Posted August 18, 2021 23 minutes ago, dcro said: What on earth does popularity have to do with weightlifting's current situation? The IOC would never scrap one of the most popular sports no matter how corrupt and doped the governing body is. De_Gambassi 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dcro 10,179 Posted August 18, 2021 #1147 Share Posted August 18, 2021 2 minutes ago, Orangehair43 said: The IOC would never scrap one of the most popular sports no matter how corrupt and doped the governing body is. Oh well. I guess we will never know unless some other federation becomes as messed up as IWF, which seems incredibly unlikely to ever happen. #banbestmen Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
heywoodu 13,540 Posted August 18, 2021 #1148 Share Posted August 18, 2021 31 minutes ago, dcro said: What on earth does popularity have to do with weightlifting's current situation? It was about 'this will not be good for Paris 2024 because a historic sport will not be on the program', which led to how it most likely won't matter at all for Paris 2024 as a whole. De_Gambassi 1 If you'd like to help our fellow Totallympics member Bruna Moura get to the 2026 Winter Olympics, after her car crash on the way to the 2022 Olympics, every tiny bit of help would be greatly appreciated! Full story and how to help can be found here! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
prso1000 536 Posted August 18, 2021 #1149 Share Posted August 18, 2021 I would kick weightlifting out and distribute the quota to other sports there are few sports which deserve more quotas Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Benolympique 1,583 Posted April 1, 2022 #1150 Share Posted April 1, 2022 https://stillmed.olympics.com/media/Documents/Olympic-Games/Paris-2024/Paris-2024-Event-Programme.pdf rafalgorka 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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