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Poll 15/100 | Which mixed gender event are you most excited to watch at Tokyo?


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  1. 1. Which mixed gender event(s) are you most excited for at Tokyo?

    • Mixed Doubles (Table Tennis)
      8
    • Mixed Doubles ( Tennis)
      12
    • Mixed Team (Judo)
      11
    • Mixed 4 * 400 m Relay (Athletics)
      14
    • Mixed Team Shooting (Trap/Rifle/Pistol)
      10
    • Mixed 4 *100 Medley (Swimming)
      12
    • Mixed Team Recurve (Archery)
      13
    • Mixed Relay (Triathlon)
      14
    • Mixed Doubles (Badminton)
      15


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I'm going to answer this as a tier list:

 

Mixed events that are must watch for me:

  • Badminton mixed doubles
  • Table tennis mixed doubles
  • Tennis mixed doubles
  • Triathlon mixed relay

 

Mixed events that I am not upset are in the Olympics:

  • Archery mixed team
  • Sailing mixed multihull
  • The three shooting mixed team events

 

Mixed events I don't believe should be in the Olympics:

  • Athletics mixed 4x400m relay
  • Judo mixed team event (the format is simply unfair)
  • Swimming mixed 4x100m medley relay

I am against the athletics and swimming mixed relays because they are essentially redundant (wouldn't be opposed to mixed relays that are markedly different from the same-gendered relays). I think the mixed judo team event has a fatally flawed format that has no place in a serious competition like the Olympics (too few weight classes and a very unfair mechanism to resolve 3-3 ties).

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I’m completely fine with Mixed Events long as they don’t have comical formats, or make a joke of the sport. Essentially, if they work as a legitimate, competitive event...I’m cool with them being on the program.

 

So my favorites are:

Mixed Doubles (Tennis, Table Tennis, Badminton)

Mixed Relay (Triathlon)

Nacra 17 (Sailing)

Mixed Recurve (Archery)

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1 hour ago, Olympian1010 said:

I’m completely fine with Mixed Events long as they don’t have comical formats, or make a joke of the sport. Essentially, if they work as a legitimate, competitive event...I’m cool with them being on the program.

Agreed, which is why I don't much care for events where men and women compete against each other head-to-head (like in athletics). They often come across comical and are just insanely hard to follow, even worse when there is no set order.

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14 hours ago, NearPup said:

I'm going to answer this as a tier list:

 

Mixed events that are must watch for me:

  • Badminton mixed doubles
  • Table tennis mixed doubles
  • Tennis mixed doubles
  • Triathlon mixed relay

 

Mixed events that I am not upset are in the Olympics:

  • Archery mixed team
  • Sailing mixed multihull
  • The three shooting mixed team events

 

Mixed events I don't believe should be in the Olympics:

  • Athletics mixed 4x400m relay
  • Judo mixed team event (the format is simply unfair)
  • Swimming mixed 4x100m medley relay

I am against the athletics and swimming mixed relays because they are essentially redundant (wouldn't be opposed to mixed relays that are markedly different from the same-gendered relays). I think the mixed judo team event has a fatally flawed format that has no place in a serious competition like the Olympics (too few weight classes and a very unfair mechanism to resolve 3-3 ties).

Basically you just summed up what I had on my mind :lol:

 

Mixed relays in athletics are the worst, that's just 100% pure joke

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6 hours ago, dcro said:

Equestrian events are open, not mixed. There are no gender-assigned places as with the mixed team events.

Interesting! I never thought about it.

This makes aerobic gymnastics the only sport I know of that covers all of these categories.

1) There are gender-specific events: individual male and individual female;
2) There's a mixed pair event;
3) Trios, groups, dance and step events are open to any gender.

There was a mixed synchro trampoline event at the early World Championships ins the 1960s, but it has long been discontinued.

Any other "open" events in sports you know of?

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