2020, uh, 21, uh, who knows Tokyo Olympics thread

Why does Japan’s Olympic baseball team have their name in English not Japanese across the front of the jersey. It’s their country

are Japanese Bball team uniforms traditionally in English?

 

Evidently.

I just Googled the Horoshima Carp and this is what I came up with. In Japan the carp are considered a ferocious fighter so the name is not considered a joke.

 

Yes. They always have been.

 

I watched some of the horse-jumping/eventing stuff today, and found myself thinking how much all I was looking at was the horses, and guessed I probably wasn't the only one. That's natural for such events, of course, but the riders seemed almost superfluous. I know they're not, by any stretch, and maybe I missed it, but I wish the commentators/analysts, or some expert in the event, would talk in-depth about the relationship between riders and horses, the communication and signals between them. That way, maybe we would see/recognize them, just as we understand rules/actions in other sports.

 

Did y’all just now become aware of this?

 

Pure speculation. Discussion a page or two back, but basically everyone hosting the Olympics in recent memory has lost their ass financially on the enormous bid cost plus overruns vs. return. Too many expensive venues have to be built, many of them going virtually unused after the games are over. Sooner or later the number of cities willing/able to host them is going to get slim. Odds are that they eventually go to a several permanent sites in rotation instead of the current bid process.

At that point the IOC loses it's leverage and some fat cats go on a diet.

 

Baseball and softball are tenuous Olympic sports right now. They got kicked out of the games for 2012 and 2016, brought back this year as a one-off because there was a process where Japan hand-picked it as a local favorite, and they will not be in the 2024 games.
Since 2028 is in Los Angeles we could see it brought back similar to how Japan did it this year, but as far as being a permanent sport again they've got a lot of work to do behind the scenes.

As far as sites go ... give the Winter Games to Dubai. They'll make it happen.

 

It’s the McRib of the Olympics.

 

Remember when Peter Ueberroth became a star by turning a profit with the L.A. Olympics?

 

Hopefully in LA they won't play softball in a turf baseball stadium without even marking the baselines.

 

Carp fight pretty hard wit my arrow stuck through them. Not so much after I whomp them in the head with a tree limb.