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Originally Posted by 19Yzerman19
Sure. So while we're at it, let's add medals for the top 3 defencemen, best forwards and best goaltenders at ice hockey, add in a couple of additional moguls events (say, three jumps instead of two and another mogul event that's just moguls and has no jumps, and then another one with rails instead of jumps), add in a second halfpipe competition where the only difference is the halfpipe is twice as long, add in another discipline where you have to do a halfpipe run followed by a slopestyle run, etc etc etc. It's not like other countries can't compete with Canada and the USA!
Different lengths of the same sport shouldn't really have separate medals. If you want to include different versions of the same thing, feel free, but the overall combined winner gets the gold, not the winner of each one. I feel much the same about the summer events.
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Congratulations on just eliminating like 35% of the events, I'm sure the IOC will be pleased. Look, just because we're Canadian and suck at cross-country doesn't mean anything. Cross-country skiing is the most diverse international sport (not diverse in style, diverse in reach) in the Olympics with a ridiculous amount of entrants from around the world. The argument against different distances is that -usually- it is different competitors who succeed at those different distances. If anything, Canada has a bigger advantage when it comes to say, Short Track Speed Skating, where people comparatively do not get tired, than the -same- Norwegian has at being good at a 5km distance compared to a 30km distance.
Out of all 8 Biathlon/Cross-Country events that have finished, no athlete has 2 medals. Sweden has almost as many medals as Norway in Cross-Country.
Every part of your argument is apples and oranges based on how you view the sport. There is less similarity between a sprint and a classic than there is between 500m and 1000m of skating.
Anyway, let's maybe stop complaining about other countries and what they are good at and enjoy the Olympic games.