IOC considers cutting Olympic T&F events, including 200m!!

[Islandman]

Olympic cuts threaten a fresh blow to athletics after IAAF scandals
Sean Ingle

It is, according to Lord Coe, a scandal every bit as damaging to athletics as the stain left by Ben Johnson during the Seoul Olympics. But while a weather bomb of corruption, malpractice and bribery allegations has smashed through the sport in recent days, another story with the capacity to wound it has slipped under the radar: the IOC is considering culling five of the 26 track and field events from the Games.

http://www.theguardian.com/sport/blo...P=share_btn_fb

[Jangle]

Elitists, old white men and crooks (Synonymous words). Nuff other sports need to be dropped before they consider touching the main sport of any Olympics - Track & Field.

1. Scrapping men’s football – 16 squads of 18 players – would slice 288 participants, tennis approximately 200.

2. There are 18 events in the Olympic swimming programme. Do we need the 50m, 100m, 200m and 400m freestyle? Especially when many swimmers excel in more than one stroke and so are able to accumulate multiple medals more easily than in most sports.

3. Sailing, which has 10 boat classes at the Olympics, is watched by few and understood by even fewer. Only 44 countries have won medals in the sport at the Games and geography and economics mean that number is unlikely to rise.

4. It is hard to make a case for race walking, which is not particularly popular and almost impossible to judge.

5. You could argue that shooting or archery are niche sports and relics from past centuries, but to some that dangling thread to the past is to be celebrated.

6. Some of those equestrian events should be dropped also. There should instead be events for pitting the best horses and jockeys from their regions, for a straight sprint over various distances to determine the one winner.

[Bricktop]

they can't cut the 200m...that is asinine...

[Assasin]

just talk

[Islandman]

Yes there must be some financial deal associated with this. Anytime a story sounds this ridiculous just follow the money, there is some being made somewhere

[Gamma]

they restricted bouncers ....when windies was on top ...... they changed the eligibility requirements for scipp howard spelling bee when we won, english county cricket changed their rules when west indians were ruling the roost in county cricket .... NONE of it was accidental

[Sir X]

Tell them Gamma but the catch here is the economics, the 200m is a financial windfall for (them) all the stuff you stated benefited us , not them.