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I want a medalist table based on % of people that come home with a medal that would show how happy the athletes of the country are. Each member of a team that wins a medal counts while an individual that wins 10 medals only counts as 1. Or a total medal table that counts the number of physical medals received for team sports. Like a country that sends 100 people, but one person wins 10 golds and no one else does anything is 1% happy since 99 people go home sad and empty handed even though that one person is on top of the world. On the other hand, if another country sends 100 people, but the only thing they win is a big team sport like basketball, then 12% of the athletes won something and they actually have possession of 12 medals.
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Looking at the list of swimming events over time, I think the 200m races in the non-freestyle strokes could be eliminated fairly cleanly. Keep the 100m for each stroke, and keep the various distances of the freestyle. That would get rid of three events. Then you don’t need both 4x100 and 4x200 freestyle medley, so that gets rid of another. And you don’t need 200 and 400 individual medleys, so that’s one more. Then get rid of the women’s too and you’ve trimmed off ten events total. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swimming_at_the_Summer_Olympics
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PostNouveau posted:I learned recently that some equestrian events (jumping events even!) are done with just random horses. Like the host of the event provides the horses and the competitors just use whatever they randomly draw. For the show jumping World Cup, the riders do a round after they switch horses with each other (or they used to; not sure if they still do) in addition to riding their own.
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  I've changed my mind we need to add more swimming races. Has anyone ever tried 150 meters? I bet that would be an interesting race
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Aug 4, 2021 23:56
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Sports simply shouldn't be removed from the olympics. In fact, they should have a race for every multiple of 50 from 50 to 10,000 for every stroke style.
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All sports should be Olympic sports Singles foosball, doubles, mixed doubles Same for Spikeball Minigolf Pickleball Racquetball Squash Yo-yo Hackey sack Ultimate frisbee Billiards Snooker Darts Shuffleboard Table shuffleboard Bowling Feather bowling Fowling Bocce ball MEDALS FOR EVERYTHING* (except motor sports and e-sports)
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Aggro posted:All sports should be Olympic sports Yes! 
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Aug 5, 2021 04:05
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Aggro posted:All sports should be Olympic sports No jai alai?!?
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Aug 5, 2021 05:34
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Put in kabaddi
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Zoran posted:Put in kabaddi 
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Badger of Basra posted:they should bring back the art competitions, it would be a ton of fun and also cool to see art from across the world tbh Have you ever watched eurovision?
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Aug 5, 2021 08:33
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Being from Australia, I get so sick of our dumb poo poo national pride at how many gold medals we get compared to our population size. Like 80% of them are for some bullshit "swim two nautical miles backwards while wearing a clown suit."
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The guy who organises the barkley marathon also has an indeterminate length race. Competitors run a lap of about 4 and change miles every hour until the winner runs the last lap alone. https://www.bbc.com/sport/56720358
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Aug 5, 2021 09:39
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Cheese rolling should be an Olympic sport
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Aggro posted:All sports should be Olympic sports Duckpin bowling, gives the shotput people another chance at a medal.
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PostNouveau posted:No jai alai?!? Of course, how could I have been so foolish
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Archery is a sport, I don't see why darts can't be a sport. And apparently there used to be an event called "dartchery" which was archery with a dartboard target, scored like darts, and WHY THE HELL DID THEY GET RID OF THAT?
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The Olympics are supposed to be about celebrating human performance in the spirit of international goodwill. Get the goddamn horse torture sports out of here.
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ilmucche posted:The guy who organises the barkley marathon also has an indeterminate length race. Competitors run a lap of about 4 and change miles every hour until the winner runs the last lap alone. This is clearly ripped off The Long Walk
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equestrian sports should also be banned https://twitter.com/stuartleech/status/1423607420320993281?s=20 horse got revenge: https://twitter.com/Jason_Keen/status/1423599013308272644?s=20
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It is too late for horse swimming?
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Elephanthead posted:It is too late for horse swimming? Already a long a storied history of horse diving
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The Olympics actually has 3 fewer events than Worlds, which includes the 50 breast, back, and free. They should be added to the Olympics so that American swimmers will start training for them. Also, there should be 4x50 free relays and 4x50 medley relays. Ask any swimmer, those events are a blast. Also, add mixed variations for all relays. Then swimming will finally take up the entire Olympics and I won’t have to be bothered by other sports. For real, though, more sports should be added. The opening and closing ceremonies can be held in the host city, but then the athletes should be shipped off around the world as needed to compete. The only downside is fewer Olympians boning in the village and creating the next generation of dominant athletes.
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TheMadMilkman posted:The only downside is fewer Olympians boning in the village and creating the next generation of dominant athletes. Just do like GB and marry off your most successful Olympians to each other 
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crepeface posted:Being from Australia, I get so sick of our dumb poo poo national pride at how many gold medals we get compared to our population size. Like 80% of them are for some bullshit "swim two nautical miles backwards while wearing a clown suit." Add actual clown events to the gymnastics
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Almost all countries are worse than Michael Phelps. Because Swimming is broken.
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I was curious about the number of medal events at the Summer Olympics over time -- not that I'm critical of the latest additions, which I like -- so I took 15 minutes to look up https://www.economist.com/graphic-detail/2021/08/03/how-the-olympics-became-bigger-and-more-diverse seconding what people are saying here about getting rid of the horse torture events Edit: Some of that increase probably comes from adding women's events for men's events which had already existed, like the women's triple jump in 1996. Kind of surprising that it came that late. It'd be interesting to see the proportion in a graph similar to this one. galenanorth fucked around with this message at 19:43 on Aug 13, 2021 |
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What is an “invasion game”
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Badger of Basra posted:What is an “invasion game” Rugby, handball, water polo?
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Badger of Basra posted:What is an “invasion game” Cancelled after the 1936 Olympics.
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Badger of Basra posted:What is an “invasion game” "An invasion game is any game a team has to attack another teams area and to score a point. For example, Football is an invasion game as one team has to maintain the position of the ball, take the ball into the other teams half and then try and score a goal in the opponents net (invade another teams area)." https://www.leadershipandsport.com/types-of-sports/ galenanorth fucked around with this message at 21:38 on Aug 11, 2021 |
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Youth Decay posted:Unironically want polo back, the horsey kind. Don't care if it's just for rich assholes. Hockey + 1000lb animals at top speed + an absurdly large field to account for those 1000lb galloping animals = fun as hell to watch. Unfortunately, I don't think it will ever happen. Polo is the only sport I can think of that is mostly funded by amateur players hiring absurdly skilled professionals to field a team. This dynamic means that the best players are at the beck and call of a bunch of rich guys, who can't really play the game all that well, at least in comparison to the professionals. The pros must travel to where the polo is, and play (earn) while they can, which is the summer months in the northern hemisphere. The Argentine Open, which is, arguably, the only polo tournament that matters is played in November/December (springtime). La Dolfina has managed to field a 40 goal team for the open for most of the last decade, but I'm pretty sure any country other than Argentina would be hard pressed to do that, no matter what time of year it is. If they ever did manage to get it back as an Olympic sport, it would be a guaranteed gold for Argentina, which is kinda cool.
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