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Distance medley relay, sprint medley relay, mixed 4X800 relay.

Here's a wild idea, dodgeball as a team event.

The issue with all the long distance running events you’d like to add is that mostly the same runners would run them. Making it extremely difficult for them to keep that sort of event schedule in one Olympics. All 3 you mentioned the same person would ideally be up for running. But that would be brutal.

All of these make more sense than break dancing.

I once read that there were discussions to have cross-country running in the Winter Olympics, since its season is run mostly through autumn-winter time and some events are run under snowy conditions. And the European cross-country championships are always held every December.

There is a mixed relay event in the Paralympics. It's called the Universal Relay. It calls for one athlete from each disability class, on blind/visually impaired, running with or without a guide, one limb difference(a.k.a. amputee), one coordination disability(mild forms of cerebral palsy, MS, etc.), and finally, a wheelchair athlete. There also has to be two women, and two men on each team.

As a Climber I don't think it's the best Idea to bring mountaineering to the Olympics, because it's quite dangerous. But I think Iceclimbing for the winter Olympics with competitions like they already exist and you showed would be a great addition to it.

The very first one should be inline skating (rollerblading). There's absolutely no reason we have skateboarding and snowboarding without inline skating. In fact, it was inline skating that launched the X-Games in the first place.

Downhill mountain biking Futsal Shuttle Hurdles relay Mountain Triathlon (swimming, mountain biking, and trail running) 50m for Backstroke, Breaststroke, and Butterfly 25km Marathon Swimming Cycling relays Cyclocross Powerlifting Mixed 4x100m relay Mixed 4x1500m openwater swimming relay

Futsal (indoor soccer) should have been at the Olympics for a long time.

A relay where one starts with 100m, passed to the following person who runs the 200m, 400m, and 800m. Could honestly be a very interesting watch.

A half marathon trail run would be a nice hybrid for cross country and the half marathon.

Need to see the 4x8 at some point

As someone who does Co-Ed ultimate frisbee, I think that would be a fun team mixed sport to add to the Olympics, it’s a relatively fast game especially if it’s indoor and it would bring a lot more recognition to the sport

I'd love to see Iron-Man triathlon make it in

When a southeast asian city hosts the olympics someday, I hope they add sepak takraw as an olympic sport, gymnastics and volleyball rolled into one 😂😅

Some form of bowling is the most played sport on earth so bowling should be in the Olympics

Yes to all of these except maybe the Mile. As you said, it's very similar to the 1500m. I'll admit to some bias as an Aussie, but I'd also love to see more swimming events, mainly longer distances and more mixed relays.

More track relays please. I think adding the distance medley relay would be gold. I would be so interesting to watch the best track athletes in the world at different distances run together. You could see the 200m, 400m and 800m champions compete in the same race. Why are we even discussing this?

God the american bias is super tough to watch. Seriously? THE MILE???

1. Football Freestyle 2. Dunk Contest Basketball 3. Shoot out contest Basketball 4. Dancesport (Ballroom, Salsa, Cha Cha, etc.) 5. Finnswiming 6. Cheerleading 7. Futsal 8. Squash 9. Parkour 10. Longboard Surfing 11. Longboard Dance 12. Roller Speed Skating 13 Roller Figure Skating 14. Baseball and Softball 16. Karate 17. Teqball 18. Paragliding (If Indonesia became host an Olympic wkwkwk)

Synchronized skating not being an olympic event breaks my heart. Such an amazing spectator sport.

Khabadi , compound archery and Cricket should add in Olympic 💯🌍🙏

They need to add a mixed pair event for synchronized swimming. This is one that has been added to a lot of world championship events and has been really popular with athletes and fans. It wouldn't be that strange for it to be added to the Olympics. So many unique routines athletes can do in a male/female pair. We see it in figure skating, so it just makes sense. Another event that would be quite cool is synchro trampoline. It's also part of a lot of world championship competitions. One that I don't think will happen, but would be super cool, is cliff diving. I get that there are a lot of dangers, but how cool would it be to watch? Another that I think will be added in the future is stand-up paddleboarding. It's already part of surfing world championships, so wouldn't be hard to add to the Olympics.

Hope to see disc golf in the games one day

futsal it's one of the most popular sports that are not included in the Olympics it's should have a spot

I definitely would love cross country or trail running event! Im not sure why they haven't since there's already road and track cycling. Also I would love a mixed relay to get the long distance and short distance running communities cheering at the same event together.

Downhill mtb and cyclocross need to be added

Need to see the 4x200 in the olympics.

I think we need mini golf and I want the doggy paddle to be in the swimming events

If ice climbing will be added, it sounds more like a discipline for the winter Olympics

I think we should bring back obstacle swimming or add obstacles to events that don’t have obstacles, I’m talking out the rowing on at the same time in the same location as the 10km swimmining, enjoy dodging those fun obstacles 😈

The mile shouldnt be in the Olympics because noone ever outside of the US ran one. Source: Ran track my entire childhood and participated in national championchip in 400m/800m in Europe.

1) Darts humans 2) padel M+F 3) Winter Olympics little four-way skating 500, 1500, 3000 and 5000 meters on the last two days of the skating event. M+F 4) one-hour distance running. With a qualification run, best 32 go to the final. The runners run alone and start each 3 min. The best runners starts at the end. The first 11 mile outside the stadium on the street, after the 11 mile the running in the Olympic stadium. M+F. The best distance wins! 5)The coopertest 12 min. Running M+F

We NEED the snow volleyball! That is so fun! Another variation is water volleyball where you have a court about 1/2 a foot under water and out side the court is like 5 feet deep! (Extort a part where you serve) It would be so fun to see in the summer Olympics! I would enjoy playing it too!!🧡

As a non American the standing long jump and vertical high jump sound very unnecessary and seem to just require less skill and precision in favour of raw strength which goes against what the games are about in my opinion. For example in the long jump the running and leaping off of the board introduces an element on risk taking, precision and technique as to not foul while getting as much out of the jump as possible whereas a standing start eliminates that possibility of variation and any athlete from the nfl or nba could walk the competition with little to no practice whereas they would need highly specialized training for the traditional long jump

I’d like to see a two person relay, in which each runner runs 200 meters, whether mixed genders or not.

I would introduce an elimination run. 12 runners run around a 400m track. Last one to cross the line after each lap is eliminated until one is left. It works for cycling, it can work for running.

Someone else pretty much covered it, but I think there should be 4-man relays from 800 meters on down, as I remember contesting 4x800 in high school, myself. I think a hilarious event might be if they could pull off a seven way relay involving 100 meter hurdles, 300 meter hurdles, 800, 400, 200, and 2x100. I know it’s usually 400m hurdles and 100m hurdles, but I couldn’t figure out how to put both on the track at the same time AND somehow clear enough track for the other legs. It’d be like the ultimate game of “Who’s team is the best?” I think if they don’t contest 4x200, they need to. I think the reason they don’t do longer relays in the pool or track is because the athletes do a lot, and there’s a lot going on already.

There’s a reason only one country in the world has a championship for the standing long jump . . .

I love the idea of adding the half marathon and the 100km. Half marathons have never been more popular and it would really draw viewers in. I also like the standing long jump idea. Kill that goofy triple jump and bring this in!

Ironman triathlon should definitely be in the Olympics.

I feel like a mixed four by one would be absolute chaos in the best way and I would love to watch it. Also, I wish they had some form of cross country.

100% agree on the mile, that would be so much fun. tbh, I wouldnt mind any event being added, the thing I enjoy the most is watching people who have spent so much blood, sweat and tears finally achieve their goal and it just tears me up every time watching them.

Sleeping should be added to the Olympics competition--------it would allow me to break the world record many times in a day.

Certain sports should have more events. For example, basketball could have a three point shooting contest and skills challenges similar to the ones at the NBA all star. Flag football could have the longest throw for the QBs, the best catch for the WRs and TEs, precision passing for the QBs, the Fastest man, an obstacle course, etc. Similar to the skills showdown at the NFL Pro Bowl.

Ice climbing is possible coming in the 2030 winter olympics

The problem with an ultra marathon and half marathon, who would run it? The marathon runners? They are WAY too exhausted and dead from the marathon. Running a marathon is a lot more taxing than a 5K or 10K and the runners would not want to do a marathon and another event.

I liked 5k scoring in high school. If you have 5 runners you can complete both individually and as a team. If they did this in the Olympics you basically have 2 medal events for the effort of 1. The fastest runner wins but the fastest team also wins. You can have countries participate where they only have a few runners which is fine. If they have more runners they can complete their the next level. Also relays are the only “team” running events so this gives long distance running a team event.

The standing long jump was also accompanied by the standing triple and standing high jumps. So pretty sure they were all replaced with their running variations which provide way more excitement

Tweak the pentathlon slightly, keep 5 sports, but pick the sports at random (from a larger potential pool of sports) after the medal ceremony from the previous Olympics. Keeps different athletes interested in training for new events, and brings different sports into the spotlight Eg. 5000m Keirin Javelin 100m freestyle Canoe slalom

4x200 needs to be added that’s a fun race

Snow volleyball, love it! ❤

Applause! This makes perfect sense. One thing I like about it is most of these events don’t require any new facilities, so there’s not a huge added expense. One I would add: the ‘ten.’ The 10-mile time trial is a staple of road cycling at club level.

Cheerleading would be insanely popular at the Olympics

I like the mile, but there's no way it'll be in if the 1500m is there. Which race would competitors run in? Many athletes already find it difficult to double-up events during the 10 days of the athletics.

Bowling has been an exhibition sport, time for bowling to take its place in the Olympics

Here is an obvious choice: pickleball

The Olympics needs Ballroom Dancing.

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Cross country running definitely. The problem of having more relay events is that the best athletes may not enter because they have other individual and relay events. You will end up with some watered-down events.

Discgolf have to be added to Olympics

As a Swede, sports like Floorball and Orientering are huge here (although I'm not a fan of them really). Both are mostly european, and for some reason Sweden, Finland and Switerzland are dominating them. Should be easy to implement. Btw, 4x400 mixed relay is in the European championship. Should be easy to have mixed relays in swimming too.

sort of niche sport but would love to see orienteering at the olympics. in this sport a series of control stations are placed in a large open area, normally a forest, though the sprint distance usually takes place in a city environment, which the competitors then with the aid of a map and a compass have to pass in order as fast as possible. it involves an interesting combination of endurance and problem solving and, well, orienteering, as well as balancing these aspects, that makes for quite exciting competition in cool environments.

Well... what do you think of the double decathlon? Alternatively, there's a thing called Racketlon. Ping-pong, Badminton, Squash, and Tennis.

I know swimming already has enough events, but i really think that an 800 medly relay or 800 IM would work really well in the Olympics and be interesting to watch

It may sound a bit odd, but I would love it if there was included a relay combining swimming and athletics. It would be really fun to watch, and to wonder how they would make to set all the equipment needed for this to happen. They could make a mixed gender relay, a relay with hurdles and different swimming styles, etc.

Most of your ideas were really great and thoughtful. My thoughts: 1. We can mix some of them. So instance, we can have a half marathon run by man followed by half marathon run by woman or vice versa as the mixed event. Let’s at least get that in if not half marathon events. 2. We have too many diving events. We can reduce some. Also who likes speed walking. We can also remove rhythmic gymnastics and artistic swimming and breaking. These can be cool but not really sports. 3. We should also bring in mixed fencing. We have mixed archery and mixed shooting. Instead of 3x3 events, we can have each team have 2 male and 2 female (where men face men and women face women). Instead of going till 45, let’s go till 60 so 12 rounds (3 for each). 4. We should have mixed 4*100 and add some more mixed track events. Like 2 people running 800 m ish for the mile run. On that note, loved the mixed triathlon relay. Also; more mixed swimming relay events.

I would add a couple more -athlon events. Modern pentathlon is cool but not very modern lets be real. Equestrian is being replaced with obstacle racing which better fits the soldier model of today but id say there are more we could have. For example: Aquatic Tetrathlon - Canoe, Sailing, High-Diving, Swimming. In addition id like to see more manouvering based sports like Urban / Gym Parkour or like you suggested Mountain Climbing. Cricket should definitely stay i the Olympics past 2028 imo as most Commonwealth nations play cricket and that would allow more medals to countries like India which dont have as many as like China and US. Also Darts, Bowling and other distance aiming sports would be good and maybe even can have a Archery / Shooting / Bowling / Darts combination event.

I would love to see Mountain Bike Trials in the olympics, where competitors jump on trial bikes around obstacle course. Could we also have a cycling relay race, and mixed version? In velodrome or on the road.

The 10 English mile run is still a thing. The ‘world record’ is the Amsterdam race which happens every year and attracts 60k amateurs per year. The race attracts some of the best runners from the world. It’s 16,1 km long. 100 km run will be to long. It needs to be doable for every country in the world. With cricket the 20 overs format would be the most entertaining. These can be played within 2 hours.

All the mixed and relay events; my favorite meets in High School were the Relay Invitationals; 4x100, 4x200, 4x300, 4x400, 4x800, 4x1600; 600 medley (100x2/200x2), 800 medley (100x2, 200x1, 400x1) - I'm sure I'm missing some, been a long time.

they do have to be careful with mixed relays, because if the distance is too short, the speed difference is really big, and you don’t want 100m sprinters just full on running into each other. I think a good relay event to add is the 400x300x200x100 race

This was such a professional video

Orientering was included as a demonstration event once. That would be a good olympic sport. I would prefer a 20 km to a half marathon. The marathon is such an arbitrary distance. The first olympic marathon in '96 was about 38 km. In Paris 1900 is was some integer number of miles. Yes, miles in Paris. Wierd. In Los Angeles 2004 it was 40 km. There is no reason it should be the distance it is today. Mixed relay should of course be included.

I like the two suggestions for the winter games, could produce more variety there and especially ice climbing would make sense. The problem with new events tho is that you either have to pile them onto the existing ones and the calendar can only fit so much or cut some but it wouldn’t be fair to deny some athletes their one chance, to give Track and Field athletes 4 relays and 3 individual competitions, they have enough already. Completely new sport are more exciting to me than having the same athletes compete multiple times under slightly altered conditions

Bring back Tug-o'-war!!

I'd love to see a Marathon relay event where the distance of a Marathon is covered in teams of 4 or 5. This would require teans to think strategically about who runs what leg.

If they bring back the standing high jump, standing long jump, standing triple jump, they could also have standing sideways jump, standing backwards jump, standing backwards triple jump....

I would include polo and Traditional "roller hockey" (also called rink hockey, quad hockey, and hardball hockey).

Technically, synchronised swimming is now called artistic swimming. No reason not to bring back a solo event. They could also add mixed events.

And not to forget: kick out breakdance, golf and boxing

KABBADI should also be added in Olympics. Its a really good athletic sport

Anything that is totally dependent on judges awarding points should not be included and should be a candidate for removal. The mile event can only appeal to people not using the metric system. Good new events/sports would be bowling, orienteering, billiards, floorball, squash. Sports that should be dropped include surfing, breakdance (which is on its way out, YAY!), syncronized swimming and rhythmic gymnastics.

100m and 200m must give 3x race heat each runner..select the best 8 runner time for final Long jumper and high jumper can do 6x and 3x try

I vote for Futsal, beach soccer and quad roller hockey. Maybe polo.

As a portuguese i will suggest three sports in which we are good: Futsal, Beach Football and Roller Hockey. Ill had too roller skate in racing and artistic. And there is another one but it would probably be too dificult ton implement which are mostorsports Regarding your list you make really good suggestions on the track and field races. Namely cross county and half and ultra marathons. Cheers mate

Surf Lifesaving. You have beach running, use of kayaks, swimming, boat racing, the rescue event

love to see korfball once at the olympics

High Diving 5k, 25k and 4x1250m relay open water swimming Artistic Swimming Acrobatic Group Double Mini Trampoline Synchronized Trampoline Tumbling Mountain running Synchronized Skating (it's figure skating but with 12-20 skaters) Finswimming (which has underwater swimming disciplines btw) Lifesaving Pool&Beach Disciplines (Both are technically their own sports but fall under the "swimming" category) Vaulting (it's kinda gymnastics but on a horse going in a circle) Acrobatic Gymnastics Aerobic Gymnastics (Again own sports but under the "gymnastics" term) Field Archery Beach Handball 4x200m Track Relay

I never thought of it but yeah, a half-Mary seems like a no brainer to me and I’m surprised it isn’t in the current program. Likewise cross-country and finswimming absolutely need to be in the program as well!

I vote to add Uno to the Olympic Games

Standing Broad Jump was my only good portion of the Presidential Physical Fitness Test. Do they still do that?? These are all good suggestions.

Love the file vision of the Melbourne Marathon in this video

Krispy Kreme Challenge, Triathlon (with Kayaking in place of Swimming for dirty rivers).

Karate need return to Olympics

I think 4 x 200 should also be included in the Olympic events.

200m hurdles or 4x200 because i be confused why does it go to 110/100h to 400h. That the same with relay

Air Hockey it could be table tennis for the Winter Olympics?