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The good news is the Tokyo Olympics will go ahead as planned after their postponement last year. This tho will be a very different Olympic games to past ones with only Japanese spectators allowed due to Covid restrictions. Wonder how the athletes feel about this?

Pete you said that there are some sports that do not belong in the Olympics. Name them mate.
 
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Certainly going to be a bit different with only Japanese spectators allowed in the stadium Craig... the other athletes won't be too impressed that they're not allowed to have their supporters there.


Mate, heard recently that bloody Skateboarding is going to be a new event at the Olympics this year... what a joke !
Here's a few others I reckon shouldn't be at the Olympics :

Synchronized Swimming.
BMX.
Climbing.
Handball.
Softball.
Soccer/Football.
Rugby Sevens.
Golf.
Surfing.
Volley Ball.
Canoeing.
 
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Pete what are the best Kiwi chances for medals?

What sports do you want added?
 
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Signman said:
the other athletes won't be too impressed that they're not allowed to have their supporters there.
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Yes Pete. The local athletes with a decided home advantage. Expect it means a lot for an athlete to have his family and friends by his side on the greatest part of his sporting journey.
 
baggygreen man said:
Pete what are the best Kiwi chances for medals?

What sports do you want added?
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It's predicted that we might win a total of 20 medals, with 9 gold ones included in that... but who knows, someone could be a red hot favourite & completely miss out on a medal.

I wouldn't add any mate - Olympics is getting more bloody commercialized each time, if anything I'd drop some of them as mentioned... at the next Olympics they'll probably want to introduce tiddlywinks 😉
 
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...and the winner is Sydney! I was extremely lucky to attend our Millenium Games free as wife worked for one of the major sponsors. The sporting hilite of my life without doubt and voted by the IOC as the "greatest ever games". Australia should be very proud of that.



This clip is mostly the spectacular lighting of the cauldron.
 

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Yeah, remember you saying you got in for free, that was a great bonus mate... spectacular lighting show Craig 👍
 
baggygreen man said:
Name the medal chances Pete. I will name some of ours.
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In NZ they haven't put too much detail out on the individuals etc that are our best medal chances, will put in some of our well known ones later, but there's going to be a lot of new ones I would not have heard of.
 
Signman said:
Certainly going to be a bit different with only Japanese spectators allowed in the stadium Craig... the other athletes won't be too impressed that they're not allowed to have their supporters there.


Mate, heard recently that bloody Skateboarding is going to be a new event at the Olympics this year... what a joke !
Here's a few others I reckon shouldn't be at the Olympics :

Synchronized Swimming.
BMX.
Climbing.
Handball.
Softball.
Soccer/Football.
Rugby Sevens.
Golf.
Surfing.
Volley Ball.
Canoeing.
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I agree to this and also to what you said about the increasing commercialisation. The underlying reason for both developments (new events and commercialisation) is complaints by younger people that "their" sports aren't represented at the Olympics and that that, in turn, does not generate the money needed for new events and grassroots sport.
 
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younger people that "their" sports aren't represented
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Which sports Thomas? I reckon young people sports have been well represented.. too well in fact. All those winter skateboarding events and now there is general skateboarding, climbing, BMX.. all aimed at a young audience. As long as these are not taking away more traditional sports. Personally I'd be disappointed if sports such as rowing, archery or cross country equestrian were to be replaced by additional specific young people sports.
 
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looker-on said:
I agree to this and also to what you said about the increasing commercialisation. The underlying reason for both developments (new events and commercialisation) is complaints by younger people that "their" sports aren't represented at the Olympics and that that, in turn, does not generate the money needed for new events and grassroots sport.
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Fair point about the young ones mate.
 
baggygreen man said:
All those winter skateboarding events and now there is general skateboarding, climbing, BMX.. all aimed at a young audience. As long as these are not taking away more traditional sports. Personally I'd be disappointed if sports such as rowing, archery or cross country equestrian, for example, were to be replaced by additional specific young people sports.
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No doubt the young ones sports will get huge promotion out of the Olympics... but just doesn't feel right having those sports there.
Can't see them taking away some traditional sports to replace them with other young peoples sports, that would absolutely ruin the event.
 
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