Anyone enjoying the climbing should watch the film Free Solo. Incredible climbing but so dangerous and lives regularly lost. Scares the hell out of me that my youngest is getting really into it.
Speed climbing in the Olympics? Enough to drive some people up the wall.
Superb viewing. The IFSC Climbing World Championships are a compelling watch. Especially the speed climbing (5.2 second world record, which is mental).
The rowing team appeared to have massively underperformed in that case!
The 5 year cycle caused massive problems for the rowing team. I am sure they will be back for Paris. Same with cycling but to a lesser degree. That one year was too much for some and not long enough for others.
No problem with rock climbing as we need to keep the interest of the younger viewer and its new and fresh.
Football, Tennis and Golf are more problematical for me in the Olympics.
Football should follow the lead of Rugby 7's and play a different version in a smaller arena with say six a side. Maybe national League down ?
Tug of war should make a comeback. There should be one sport where you train by eating big breakfasts and pie and chips. No doubt even in this people would cheap by taking steroids.
for how much longer will certain World Records continue to be broken.....at some point they will just never be beaten
Bolt's 100 and 200m records will probably stand for quite a while. Certainly i think the 200 will. Flo-Jo's records over the same distance have stood since 1988!
The womens 400m WR has stood since 1985, and only 3 women have got within a second of that time since, so she must've been on something.
People said it at the time and since. She died very young, had a strong jaw line and was a bit spotty. Also she had an outrageous improvement in times after changing coaches. The old communist countries loved drugs to the point that some of there athletes were becoming mutants and what they did with girl gymnastics was disgusting to say the least. I don’t think the Americans were beyond doing a bit rule breaking, they were at times a little difficult with testing. I don’t trust the Chinese, they have history at cheating just like Russia but I doubt the powers to be haven’t caught with their technology yet.
No problem with rock climbing as we need to keep the interest of the younger viewer and its new and fresh.
Football, Tennis and Golf are more problematical for me in the Olympics.
Football should follow the lead of Rugby 7's and play a different version in a smaller arena with say six a side. Maybe national League down ?
Tug of war should make a comeback. There should be one sport where you train by eating big breakfasts and pie and chips. No doubt even in this people would cheap by taking steroids.
Rope a dope ?
Agree football should be like futsal or something different really, give different players an opportunity and also get youngsters interested in them
the football debate is a very British one as we don’t put teams in, most countries see it as the only global U23 event and use it to give players experience at a global level.
likewise for women as it’s global event and we’ve not had that experience for our players since 2012
The amount be broke the record by was the craziest thing since Bolt broke the WR in the 100m. Even the silver medalist broke the old record. The WR has been lowered more in a month than the previous 20 years.
Athletics is too important to not fund, but the returns at most games haven't been that great either
But then it depends on whether you consider funding to be there to support sport, health, exercise, "social wellbeing" etc or is it there to win medals.
No problem with rock climbing as we need to keep the interest of the younger viewer and its new and fresh.
Climbing is relatively cheap to hold as well, when compared with more specialised sports, such as a host city having to create a canoe slalom course, and many sports centres have basic climbing walls you anyone watching who wants to get into it
the football debate is a very British one as we don’t put teams in, most countries see it as the only global U23 event and use it to give players experience at a global level.
likewise for women as it’s global event and we’ve not had that experience for our players since 2012
The female game does still need the global publicity and the players gain even more experience of top football tournaments. So 11 aside for the woman's game.
For the men, another tournament in an all ready busy fixture list shouldn't be in the Olympics. As mentioned futsal or some sort of six a side with 17 to 19 age group. Good to see a GB team compete in this.
the football debate is a very British one as we don’t put teams in, most countries see it as the only global U23 event and use it to give players experience at a global level.
likewise for women as it’s global event and we’ve not had that experience for our players since 2012
The female game does still need the global publicity and the players gain even more experience of top football tournaments. So 11 aside for the woman's game.
For the men, another tournament in an all ready busy fixture list shouldn't be in the Olympics. As mentioned futsal or some sort of six a side with 17 to 19 age group. Good to see a GB team compete in this.
If you need to age limit it it obviously shouldn't be in the Olympics. If it was still amateur fine. It's not the u23s show jumping, the u26 100 meters or anything else.
China is probably going to win the gold medal count and might win the overall medal count. That’s pretty amazing.
I don’t think it’s that odd? The games are back in East Asia for the first time since Beijing in 2008. IMO they were always favourites to top the medals tables here. I’m sure it will be a different story in 2024 and especially 2028 in Los Angeles.
To be fair 20m of the sailing budget was to build an indoor ocean so they can practice all year long.
Why did they spend all that money for that?
They could’ve just rounded up all the bed wetters on this forum and put them in a warehouse. They’d have the indoor ocean they’d need within a few days.
Athletics is too important to not fund, but the returns at most games haven't been that great either
But then it depends on whether you consider funding to be there to support sport, health, exercise, "social wellbeing" etc or is it there to win medals.
Different funding agencies and delivery bodies for the health and exercise part of Athletics/Running. The money comes from Sport England and delivered by everyone from England Athletics, ParkRun and others in the running sector.
UK Athletics deals with the elite end, and gets the UK sport funding. I would say, thar Athletics is the only global sport of that list.
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Rowing £24.6m
Cycling £24.5m
Athletics £23m
Sailing £22m
https://www.uksport.gov.uk/our-work/investing-in-sport/current-funding-figures
Football, Tennis and Golf are more problematical for me in the Olympics.
Football should follow the lead of Rugby 7's and play a different version in a smaller arena with say six a side. Maybe national League down ?
Tug of war should make a comeback. There should be one sport where you train by eating big breakfasts and pie and chips. No doubt even in this people would cheap by taking steroids.
Rope a dope ?
The old communist countries loved drugs to the point that some of there athletes were becoming mutants and what they did with girl gymnastics was disgusting to say the least. I don’t think the Americans were beyond doing a bit rule breaking, they were at times a little difficult with testing.
I don’t trust the Chinese, they have history at cheating just like Russia but I doubt the powers to be haven’t caught with their technology yet.
...I think they must have given up on it.
likewise for women as it’s global event and we’ve not had that experience for our players since 2012
But then it depends on whether you consider funding to be there to support sport, health, exercise, "social wellbeing" etc or is it there to win medals.
The female game does still need the global publicity and the players gain even more experience of top football tournaments.
So 11 aside for the woman's game.
For the men, another tournament in an all ready busy fixture list shouldn't be in the Olympics. As mentioned futsal or some sort of six a side with 17 to 19 age group.
Good to see a GB team compete in this.
After all a team of Under 23s would still take an awful lot of England's best players, when you look at the age profile of our side in the Euros
UK Athletics deals with the elite end, and gets the UK sport funding. I would say, thar Athletics is the only global sport of that list.