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LA are adding a number of team sports. Baseball, softball, lacrosse, flag football and cricket. Not sure how they are going to keep the numbers down.That is one way to keep the numbers down for the IOC and local OCOG and costs it has to cover.
In LA and I assume Brisbane there will probably be 8 teams for each of men's and women's competition and squads of 15, so that is another 8x2x15 =240 athletes added to having to be housed, feed etc.
12 teams is normal for all bar 4 sports/competitions, men's football have 16, women's water polo 10 and men's and women's 3x3 basketball 8, but I can't see 12 teams in LA.
Then each team will have officials ie coaches and physios, organisers will have the umpires, scorers and other officials, the groundsmen etc, then the broadcast crews, so there is probably another 250 to 300 people that have accommodated etc by the local OCOG.
Somehow they are keeping a cap on competitors but increasing events at the games the last dozen years. They have cut the number of events for some more traditional sports like fencing, wrestling, weightlifting, track cycling etc.
1980 203 events 5,217 athletes - western nations boycott
1984 221 events 7,173 athletes - Soviet and Eastern Bloc boycott
1988 237 and 8,465
1992 257 and 9,370
1996 271 and 10,310
2000 300 and 10,649
2004 301 and 10,560
2008 302 and 10,899
2012 302 and 10768
2016 306 and 11,238
2020 339 and 11,420
2024 329 and 11,000 approx
Thats what I was getting at without wanting to have a big discussion on it. I think more events will cut from long term traditional sports to make up for extra team sport numbers.LA are adding a number of team sports. Baseball, softball, lacrosse, flag football and cricket. Not sure how they are going to keep the numbers down.
That is one way to keep the numbers down for the IOC and local OCOG and costs it has to cover.
In LA and I assume Brisbane there will probably be 8 teams for each of men's and women's competition and squads of 15, so that is another 8x2x15 =240 athletes added to having to be housed, feed etc.
12 teams is normal for all bar 4 sports/competitions, men's football have 16, women's water polo 10 and men's and women's 3x3 basketball 8, but I can't see 12 teams in LA.
Then each team will have officials ie coaches and physios, organisers will have the umpires, scorers and other officials, the groundsmen etc, then the broadcast crews, so there is probably another 250 to 300 people that have accommodated etc by the local OCOG.
Somehow they are keeping a cap on competitors but increasing events at the games the last dozen years. They have cut the number of events for some more traditional sports like fencing, wrestling, weightlifting, track cycling etc.
1980 203 events 5,217 athletes - western nations boycott
1984 221 events 7,173 athletes - Soviet and Eastern Bloc boycott
1988 237 and 8,465
1992 257 and 9,370
1996 271 and 10,310
2000 300 and 10,649
2004 301 and 10,560
2008 302 and 10,899
2012 302 and 10768
2016 306 and 11,238
2020 339 and 11,420
2024 329 and 11,000 approx
Cricket is an anglosphere game, shouldnt be in the olympics.
Flag football is really just america and canada, shouldnt be either.
Italy play rugby union, they have been in the world cup. so thats 1 more lol....Rugby union, too; and it’s in (even if in its sevens format). It’s mostly anglosphere + France, but still…
Basketball 3v3 is probably worse than both.
The big Olympic sports tend to have world championships in the odd years. Some have them every year, like track cycling and rowing for example.I have been wondering if there’s a solution outside of the box. Perhaps the COI should create a “Spring Games” to accommodate more sports/disciplines/events. Then, there would be three Games within every Olympic cycle.
Maybe most radical- and team-sport events could go to that new Olympic Games to be held between the Winter and the Summer editions.
And Handball is Eurocentric.Cricket is an anglosphere game, shouldnt be in the olympics.
Flag football is really just america and canada, shouldnt be either.
And Handball is Eurocentric.
And Basketball is American
And Table tennis is Asian
So if a sport is really only played in a certain region it shouldn’t be in the Olympics?
It doesn’t really matter where a sport was invented, it’s where it’s played.Basketball was invented in America.. by a Canadian, but pretty much everywhere plays it now.
Table tenis originated n Victorian England it seems. Asians just seem to luv it and be great at it.
Handball is Eurocentric true. but how many nations are there in Europe?
So AFL should be in the olympics? come on lol
Bocce is played in more nations...
It doesn’t really matter where a sport was invented, it’s where it’s played.
Stop trying to sweep table tennis under the rug. Only 21 of 130 medals have been won by non Asian countries and only 1 gold ever. It’s a very Asia specific sport, no one else plays it.
More countries from more diverse regions would play Cricket than handball. An interesting argument though, how many nations in Europe? 44. How many nations in the Commonwealth? 56.
Moving on baring a few superstars no one plays basketball seriously outside of America. There is a reason the rest of the world is basically competing for silver. Also nice bit of hypocrisy that where it was created is relevant to Table tennis but irrelevant to Basketball.
Your ridiculous AFL analogy also bares no comparison to what cricket is and it’s embarrassing that you would even attempt to make it.
I think what this really comes down to is you just don’t like cricket or perhaps the countries its popular in. Which is strange as this is a chance for some countries that are very underrepresented at the Olympics to actually shine. Places like Afghanistan, Bangladesh, Sri Lanka, Zimbabwe, Uganda, and Nepal all competed at the last T20 World Cup.
Cricket is an odd choice to get a bugbear about. Go have a crack at Flag football, your AFL analogy actual works for that one.
Rugby union, too; and it’s in (even if in its sevens format). It’s mostly anglosphere + France, but still…
And Handball is Eurocentric.
And Basketball is American
And Table tennis is Asian
So if a sport is really only played in a certain region it shouldn’t be in the Olympics?
Add 230 million in Pakistan and 170 million in Bangladesh who are almost as cricket mad and that is a market that has more people than USA + Canada.Fact of the matter there's one sport where a billion people care about and that's just in one country- India. You have to be blindly insane to NOT cater for the Indian audience with cricket. No one cares about half the traditional sports, it's fine to keep a majority of them though. The newer age sports are what is needed to keep the Olympics viable long term. Generally team sports regardless of what it is favour certain parts of the world, basketball...everyone is going for silver don't care how many people play it, waterpolo in general is a european dominated sport. You play a t20 WC right now, you'd have all of India (Asia), Australia, England (Europe), and South Africa (Africa) all a chance. That's literally every continent bar South America/North Aerica and the USA were good in the last WC beating Pakistan in the pool games.
Add 230 million in Pakistan and 170 million in Bangladesh who are almost as cricket mad and that is a market that has more people than USA + Canada.
Argentina is in the anglosphereArgentina just beat the All Blacks.
Argentina is in the anglosphere
No they aren't.
Spanish speaking South Americans are in no way part of the "anglosphere".
Mate, they live next door to me. You have no idea how much influence the Brits left there. They practice English sports: rugby union, field hockey, polo, tennis, paddleball, rowing…
In sports, they are English (despite their hate towards the Brits).