Next Olympics news thread

Discussion in 'Olympics' started by riverplate, Jun 4, 2008.

  1. riverplate

    riverplate Member+

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    Cities Pitch Existing Venues In Bid For 2024 Summer Games - ESPN
    http://espn.go.com/olympics/story/_/id/14791048/ioc-cites-high-use-existing-venues-2024-olympic-bids
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    Rome 2024
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    Budapest 2024 has not presented an official Olympics logo at this time.
     
  2. riverplate

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    Baseball/Softball, Sport Climbing, Surfing, Karate, Skateboarding At Tokyo 2020 - BBC
    http://www.bbc.com/sport/olympics/36968070
    Skateboarding, surfing and climbing are among five new sports confirmed for the 2020 Tokyo Olympic Games. Karate and baseball/softball have also been added by the International Olympic Committee (IOC).

    The five extra sports, which do not replace any of the 28 already on the Tokyo schedule, will include 18 events and involve hundreds of athletes. Baseball and softball featured separately between 1992 and 2008, but made a joint bid to be readmitted. None of the other sports have been included before, though surf lifesaving was a demonstration sport at the Paris Games in 1900.

    The five sports were all recommended by Tokyo organisers in July and unanimously backed by the executive board of the IOC, which subsequently described them as "a dynamic and exciting package" ahead of this final confirmation at the 129th IOC session on Wednesday.

    The IOC said it hopes the "innovative" move will draw in new audiences by focusing inclusions on youth-oriented sports. "We want to take sport to the youth," said IOC president Thomas Bach.
     
  3. condor11

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    Apr 2, 2002
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    they seriously need to start dropping sports

    football for one...if they wish to have a ball kicking sport..why not replace it with futsal? probably a lot easier to host aswell
     
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  4. riverplate

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    IOC Vote Moves LA, Paris Closer To Hosting '24, '28 Games - ESPN
    http://www.espn.com/olympics/story/...rs-award-2024-2028-summer-game-simultaneously
     
  5. riverplate

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    Paris, Los Angeles Confirmed As Hosts Of 2024, 2028 Olympic Games - CNN
    http://www.cnn.com/2017/09/13/sport/paris-olympic-bid-2024-los-angeles-2028/
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  6. riverplate

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    IOC Hands Russia Major Ban For 2018 Games - ESPN
    http://www.espn.com/olympics/story/...hletes-compete-2018-winter-games-olympic-flag
     
  7. riverplate

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    Italy Wins Vote To Host 2026 Winter Games
    - ESPN
    https://www.espn.com/olympics/story/_/id/27045062/italy-wins-vote-host-2026-winter-games
     
  8. Auriaprottu

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    Apr 1, 2002
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    Interested in what kind of skateboarding. Should be DH- either first, second and third past the post or individual timed runs a la DH skiing. Or slalom. The latter two would be preferable IMO. Much as I love to watch bowl riding, that would have to be a judged event, and the Games don't need any more of those.

    I was a poster on Silverfish (a longboard forum) a few years ago until it went under. I was shocked at the number of posters who did not want DH to become an Olympic sport. They were all "Let's keep it outlaw", like outlaws can afford to spend $400- $500 on one rig and have enough left over for graffiti paint.
     
  9. riverplate

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    IOC President Defends Rules Limiting Olympic Protests
    - ESPN
    https://www.espn.com/olympics/story...ident-defends-rules-limiting-olympic-protests
     
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  10. riverplate

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    Moving, Postponing Olympics Unlikely - ESPN
    https://www.espn.com/olympics/story/_/id/28779418/pound-moving-postponing-olympics-unlikely

    TOKYO (AP) -- A senior member of the International Olympic Committee said Tuesday that if it proves too dangerous to hold the Olympics in Tokyo this summer because of the coronavirus outbreak, organizers are more likely to cancel it altogether than to postpone or move it.

    Dick Pound, a former Canadian swimming champion who has been on the IOC since 1978, making him its longest-serving member, estimated there is a 3-month window -- perhaps a 2-month one -- to decide the fate of the Tokyo Olympics, meaning a decision could be put off until late May. Pound encouraged athletes to keep training. About 11,000 are expected for the Olympics, which open July 24, and 4,400 are bound for the Paralympics, which open August 25.

    The modern Olympics, which date to 1896, have been canceled only during wartime. The Olympics in 1940 were supposed to be in Tokyo but were called off because of Japan's war with China and World War II. The Rio Games in Brazil went on as scheduled in 2016 despite the outbreak of the Zika virus.

    Pound said he would not favor a scattering of Olympic events to other places around the world because that wouldn't "constitute an Olympic Games. You'd end up with a series of world championships." He also said it would be extremely difficult to spread around the various sports over a 17-day period with only a few months' notice.

    He also cast doubt on the possibility of a 1-year delay. Japan is officially spending $12.6 billion to organize the Olympics, although a national audit board says the country is spending twice that much. "You have to ask if you can hold the bubble together for an extra year," Pound said. "Then, of course, you have to fit all of this into the entire international sports schedule."
     
  11. riverplate

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    Rescheduled Tokyo Games To Open July 23, 2021 - ESPN
    https://www.espn.com/olympics/story...pic-opening-ceremony-rescheduled-july-23-2021
     

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