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Aug 2022
9:15am, 16 Aug 2022
10,055 posts
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Fragile Do Not Bend
Well, you could argue that hurdles and steeplechase are just slower ways to run. 
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Aug 2022
9:22am, 16 Aug 2022
10,056 posts
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Fragile Do Not Bend
IMHO track cycling seems to be the sport with the most unnecessary events. I still can’t get my head around all the different events and what the point is of several of them.
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Aug 2022
9:23am, 16 Aug 2022
9,202 posts
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GordonG
Has anyone ever considered a combined field event of javelin + shot + discuss + hammer? Either add or the totals together or points for placings.
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Aug 2022
9:26am, 16 Aug 2022
9,203 posts
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GordonG
I've also wondered why there's not a motorsport Olympic:, F1, moto, powerboats, plane racing, bike stunts, etc.
I mean, it's not environmentally friendly but that's a different question
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Aug 2022
9:29am, 16 Aug 2022
10,057 posts
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Fragile Do Not Bend
How about a running equivalent of the Keirin - a 5000m where the athletes have to run behind someone in a motorised wheelchair for several laps. 😅
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Aug 2022
9:29am, 16 Aug 2022
17,996 posts
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rf_fozzy
"IMHO track cycling seems to be the sport with the most unnecessary events. I still can’t get my head around all the different events and what the point is of several of them."
Such as?
Cycling got hammered in the olympics and had to reduce the number of events.
Individual pursuit, the kilo/500m time trial for example got dumped.
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Aug 2022
9:30am, 16 Aug 2022
17,997 posts
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rf_fozzy
"I've also wondered why there's not a motorsport Olympic:, F1, moto, powerboats, plane racing, bike stunts, etc."
Because they are wasteful.
And not sports.
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Aug 2022
9:30am, 16 Aug 2022
18,680 posts
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larkim
I've had that thought in the past. And a multi-event for sprints (say a combo 100m, 200m, 400m) MD (400m, 800m, 1500m) and even a 5k / marathon combo? Or at least relays in those sorts of ideas so that the sprinters don't get all of the medals. Could do a HJ / LJ / TJ / PV medley or multi event too.
The thing with SC and hurdles is at least that mimics some concept of real world running and you're still trying to do it as fast as possible.
Agree that cycling has a lot of similar events, but even there there is quite a difference between the type of rider that can win the various different types of races.
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Aug 2022
9:31am, 16 Aug 2022
17,998 posts
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rf_fozzy
I think with all these multi-event ideas you are effectively reinventing the heptathlon and decathlon....
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Aug 2022
9:32am, 16 Aug 2022
10,058 posts
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Fragile Do Not Bend
Scratch race vs Keirin for example. To the lay person like me it seems like the only difference is the motorbike.
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