The Olympics will be the one time every four years when cheering is always allowed. Cheering and yelling is allowed at all times! Justin Gatlin and Tori Bowie will still lose to Jamaica in the 4x100 but they can lose together. Or how about a mixed relay? Just imagine Phelps and Ledecky in the same 4x100 relay - and teams can pick the order. How about mixed synchronized diving? Or mixed golf and archery tournaments? Maybe a mixed team gymnastics competition with eight events and one person on each? Men and women already compete together in tennis and badminton. Wouldn’t it be cool to watch these two swim in the same relay? (AP) Mixed events are delightful and promote the exact sort of cooperative positive athletic achievement the Olympics are going for. Why not do more of that for golf and other events? More mixed events! Why have just another four-day tournament? What about combining the scores for a team medal, too - like you’re not tuning in for the final holes of Sweden -21 vs USA -19 on Sunday for gold? You can even throw in some best-ball action or a team tournament. Individual greatness is awesome, but everyone loves rooting for their country. Chain link nets, make-it-take-it, call your own fouls.Īnd shouts to Rio for the late-night beach volleyball, too. Let’s throw in a 3-on-3 outdoor basketball tournament at the beach too, Rucker Park style. Beach flag football? Beach kickball? Done and done. Beach Ultimate Frisbee 7-on-7? Immediately in.
How about more of the same for other events?īeach soccer? Absolutely. We already get volleyball and beach volleyball. Most things in life are better on a beach.
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Give the Olympics at least three full weeks. Rugby forced each team to play two games on the same day, then two more again the next day! Soccer teams are playing matches every few days. He was asked to play 15 tennis matches in one week. Rafael Nadal competed in singles, doubles, and mixed doubles. Remember when Michael Phelps swam for a gold medal and had 26 minutes to exit the pool, cool down, stand on the podium, and line up for another race? We can’t move that race back a few hours or to another day? Why did we decide we needed to cram everything into two precious weeks every four summers? These athletes have trained most of their life can’t we give them each their own moment? How is this not happening already? Spread things out - give us three full weeks! And now that we’re not tape delaying, give us score updates and event standings and medal counts. How is it 2016 and we still don’t consistently know what’s happening on the screen right now? Are we in lane three or lane four? Which one is lane four again … is that the one by the yellow one? Is this for a medal?Īlso, why not have some sort of Bottom Line technology? Remind us what’s happening live on the other channels with Olympic coverage. Why shouldn’t CBS, ABC, FOX, and NBC all have Olympic coverage? They can all beam the 100m finals, but if I don’t like the Bob Costas interview on NBC, I should be able to switch over to ABC’s live handball coverage or FOX’s midnight Copacabana dance party. Everyone can cover the Olympics and show what they please. Easy solution: Just take away exclusive rights.