Is The End Of The Olympics In Sight?

[Tugg Speedman]

Adding it to have more urban youth appeal.

3-on-3 basketball added to 2020 Tokyo Olympic program

http://www.espn.com/olympics/story/_/id/19588090/3-3-basketball-added-2020-tokyo-olympic-program

Track cycling will add men's and women's madison races in 2020 -- in a velodrome about 80 miles outside Tokyo -- and swimming will add men's 800-meter freestyle and women's 1,500 freestyle.

Swimming also gets a 4x100-meter mixed medley relay among a broad increase in mixed gender events, including a 4x400 mixed relay on the track.

Among sports losing athlete places, weightlifting will have 64 fewer in Tokyo after reporting dozens of doping cases in retested samples from the 2008 Beijing Olympics and 2012 London Games.

Wrestling will lose 56 places, sailing and shooting will each lose 30 and swimming will have 22 fewer.

How exactly to cut 105 athletes from track and field will be discussed with the IAAF at its world championships in London in August, McConnell said. He noted that some sprint relay places typically went unused.

[warriorchick]

Adding it to have more urban youth appeal.

3-on-3 basketball added to 2020 Tokyo Olympic program

http://www.espn.com/olympics/story/_/id/19588090/3-3-basketball-added-2020-tokyo-olympic-program

Track cycling will add men's and women's madison races in 2020 -- in a velodrome about 80 miles outside Tokyo -- and swimming will add men's 800-meter freestyle and women's 1,500 freestyle.

Swimming also gets a 4x100-meter mixed medley relay among a broad increase in mixed gender events, including a 4x400 mixed relay on the track.

Among sports losing athlete places, weightlifting will have 64 fewer in Tokyo after reporting dozens of doping cases in retested samples from the 2008 Beijing Olympics and 2012 London Games.

Wrestling will lose 56 places, sailing and shooting will each lose 30 and swimming will have 22 fewer.

How exactly to cut 105 athletes from track and field will be discussed with the IAAF at its world championships in London in August, McConnell said. He noted that some sprint relay places typically went unused.

Mixed relays should be interesting.  I have competed in them in Masters swimming and it will be interesting to see which genders tend to swim which stroke.  My guess is that women will most likely swim the faster strokes (freestyle and butterfly) because the time gap between men and women tends to be closer, but of course, it might vary based on the talent on any particular team.

If the Olympics were smart (I know), the sports to cut would be the ones that require expensive venues and have limited public interest.  I am looking at you, track cycling.

[muwarrior69]

Adding it to have more urban youth appeal.

3-on-3 basketball added to 2020 Tokyo Olympic program

http://www.espn.com/olympics/story/_/id/19588090/3-3-basketball-added-2020-tokyo-olympic-program

Track cycling will add men's and women's madison races in 2020 -- in a velodrome about 80 miles outside Tokyo -- and swimming will add men's 800-meter freestyle and women's 1,500 freestyle.

Swimming also gets a 4x100-meter mixed medley relay among a broad increase in mixed gender events, including a 4x400 mixed relay on the track.

Among sports losing athlete places, weightlifting will have 64 fewer in Tokyo after reporting dozens of doping cases in retested samples from the 2008 Beijing Olympics and 2012 London Games.

Wrestling will lose 56 places, sailing and shooting will each lose 30 and swimming will have 22 fewer.

How exactly to cut 105 athletes from track and field will be discussed with the IAAF at its world championships in London in August, McConnell said. He noted that some sprint relay places typically went unused.

Then it should be played outdoors on a blacktop court.

[GGGG]

Amateurism is an anachronistic viewpoint shared by many of the upperclass in Europe and the Americas at that time.  It was portrayed as something "pure," but pretty much shut out the working class from participation.  It was an elitist viewpoint.  Still is.

[Jockey]

Amateurism is an anachronistic viewpoint shared by many of the upperclass in Europe and the Americas at that time.  It was portrayed as something "pure," but pretty much shut out the working class from participation.  It was an elitist viewpoint.  Still is.

We needed all of those rowers from Harvard and Yale.

[Tugg Speedman]

Mixed relays should be interesting.  I have competed in them in Masters swimming and it will be interesting to see which genders tend to swim which stroke.  My guess is that women will most likely swim the faster strokes (freestyle and butterfly) because the time gap between men and women tends to be closer, but of course, it might vary based on the talent on any particular team.

If the Olympics were smart (I know), the sports to cut would be the ones that require expensive venues and have limited public interest.  I am looking at you, track cycling.

Rowing. Whitewater kayaking, equestrian and sailing.

[4everwarriors]

I'll do da breaststroke, hey?

[tower912]

Had you figured for team handball.

[MU Fan in Connecticut]

We needed all of those rowers from Harvard and Yale.

They just held the 152nd annual Yale-Harvard Regatta over the weekend in New London, CT.

[Eldon]

Paris gets 2024, Los Angeles gets 2028 (IOC feared no other city would want it in 2028)

https://www.yahoo.com/sports/los-angeles-awarded-olympics-ioc-hits-panic-button-212927822.html