2024 Paris Summer Olympics

[brehme1989]

Baseball sucks. You can take the 2004 stadium with you.

Cricket has a variation where they finish in a day or something. I think they made it so they can have it as an Olympic sport, been 20 years or so, still nothing. Thank fuck!

Rugby and basketball have a smaller version as well, but main rugby is not an event (it rocks btw!). No idea why basketball 3 on 3 is a thing. Probably more shit to give the USA medals.

 

[ADRossi]

Baseball sucks.

Enjoy your six month ban!

 

[Gal]

Nadeem damn …. New OL Javelin throws record with 92.97m beat the old with almost 3m. First athletic gold to Pakistan.. so nice to see new nations enter the competition and win gold.

I really dislike handball, can’t possibly think of a sport I dislike more. It even beat all those ridiculous American sports in absolute worst sports ever invented, even though American sports are like 8min action and 3h of break and commercials, that makes them complete horror to watch

Loved that Tebogo won the 200m and Lyles choked…

 

[pupivn]

Ahhh Serbia, so close for an upset

 

[Fitzy]

Baseball sucks. You can take the 2004 stadium with you.

Cricket has a variation where they finish in a day or something. I think they made it so they can have it as an Olympic sport, been 20 years or so, still nothing. Thank fuck!

Rugby and basketball have a smaller version as well, but main rugby is not an event (it rocks btw!). No idea why basketball 3 on 3 is a thing. Probably more shit to give the USA medals.

Cricket has 3 top-level formats, with the shorter forms of the game being 20 and 50 overs. That'd still probably be too long though, as the 20-over World Cup goes for a month.

I don't think sports with a significant following which have their own World Cup need to be part of the Olympics, anyway. To me, it just becomes a watered-down version of the original sport.

 

[Gal]

Cricket has 3 top-level formats, with the shorter forms of the game being 20 and 50 overs. That'd still probably be too long though, as the 20-over World Cup goes for a month.

I don't think sports with a significant following which have their own World Cup need to be part of the Olympics, anyway. To me, it just becomes a watered-down version of the original sport.

I never fathom what major popular sports do there to begin with.

This goes for Football, Basketball, Handball, Golf, Tennis, road cycling, Boxing, volleyball, Rugby & badminton add cricket that will participate next time

It’s sports where the athletes already have healthy and prestigious competition and money to splash, you get the feeling those are there for money and audience purpose only, because of their popularity and money that tend to go hand in hand in those spots

 

[pupivn]

But cycling, football, golf, tennis and rugby have long history with Olympic. Tennis, cycling were one of event in first modern Olympic, rugby was an event long before and introduced back recently, football was only big world trophy until World Cup found. Those sports may have more prestigious competition but it doesn’t mean Olympic couldn’t have those.

 

[wera]

Cycling is the most boring event, that's why they televise other stuff in between.

 

[brehme1989]

Cricket has 3 top-level formats, with the shorter forms of the game being 20 and 50 overs. That'd still probably be too long though, as the 20-over World Cup goes for a month.

I don't think sports with a significant following which have their own World Cup need to be part of the Olympics, anyway. To me, it just becomes a watered-down version of the original sport.

All team sports have world cups. Heck, volleyball had three of those at a time

 

[brehme1989]

I never fathom what major popular sports do there to begin with.

This goes for Football, Basketball, Handball, Golf, Tennis, road cycling, Boxing, volleyball, Rugby & badminton add cricket that will participate next time

It’s sports where the athletes already have healthy and prestigious competition and money to splash, you get the feeling those are there for money and audience purpose only, because of their popularity and money that tend to go hand in hand in those spots

The Olympics became cool again because of Dream Team in 1992.

Till then people mostly tuned in for some athletic sprints.
And it's mostly been a politically driven event in terms of hosting cities.

 

[Gal]

The Olympics became cool again because of Dream Team in 1992.

Till then people mostly tuned in for some athletic sprints.
And it's mostly been a politically driven event in terms of hosting cities.

You mean mainly for Americans that is. Large part of the world couldn’t care any less about basketball and only really watched because of one player.

The turning point was in fact happening earlier in fact in the mid 1980’s with introduction of pro popular sports and allowing pro to participate, it was that change from an amateur event to inclusion of professional that led to the dream team even being able to play in the first place. So the turning point was actually some years prior but as everything else it was a gradual process.

The dream team influence is greatly exaggerated by Americans, as it was mainly a symptom of the change. It was the allowing of professional that made OL popular as that is after all often what attracts people.

 

[wera]

I feel the Winter Olympics get more hype or am I mistaken?

 

[thatdude]

I feel the Winter Olympics get more hype or am I mistaken?

Not even half as much hype tbh. Unless you’re from Norway maybe.

 

[Adriano@10]

Cycling is the most boring event, that's why they televise other stuff in between.

I see you don't live in a country where they show every god damn stage of the tour de france, tour de swiss and a big part of the giro d italia in full length on National TV.....

Not even half as much hype tbh. Unless you’re from Norway maybe.

Meh 50/50 i would say at least in europe.

 

[brehme1989]

You mean mainly for Americans that is. Large part of the world couldn’t care any less about basketball and only really watched because of one player.

The turning point was in fact happening earlier in fact in the mid 1980’s with introduction of pro popular sports and allowing pro to participate, it was that change from an amateur event to inclusion of professional that led to the dream team even being able to play in the first place. So the turning point was actually some years prior but as everything else it was a gradual process.

The dream team influence is greatly exaggerated by Americans, as it was mainly a symptom of the change. It was the allowing of professional that made OL popular as that is after all often what attracts people.

No I mean in general.

It opened the doors for prime time athletes to participate and more people to watch the Games.

They were always a popular thing and a popular destination, but sports wise it took off from Barcelona and on. More sports federations started to want to be included.

You must also remember that this was after the Soviet block collapsed and the previous versions were, well, heated. Moscow 1980, Los Angeles 1984 and Seoul 1988 (division of country due to Cold War) weren't really ideal tourist spots for all.
And Barcelona was picked because they wanted to show that Catalonia could represent Spain. As I said, too much politics involved.

By the time Sydney hosted in 2000 more and more events got in and even more wanted it, while others started to adjust their sports and create variations to get in.

I feel the Winter Olympics get more hype or am I mistaken?

Not really. There's hype in some places and the Ice Hockey games are elite, but popularity wise it's probably not even half as big. If some US states weren't involved and couldn't host, it'd be closee to a non-event. Not sure how China fares on that one. And Russia will be out of the next I suppose, so limited interest from the big boys.

 

[Kramerica Industries]

I feel the Winter Olympics get more hype or am I mistaken?

Personally, I enjoy the winter games a lot more, but I'm probably in a minority for that.

 

[Il Drago]

Personally, I enjoy the winter games a lot more, but I'm probably in a minority for that.

Me too but we're definitely the minority. Most people don't even know when there are winter Olympics.

 

[Dave54]

Seoul was not ideal?

 

[pupivn]

Better than Euro final LOL

 

[DiegoMilito22]

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