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Originally Posted by GordonBlue
I agree.
here's what we can get rid of:
biathlon
cross country skiing
ski jumping
Nordic combined (so all the Nordic events)
speed skating (keep short track)
mixed doubles and team luge
woman's monobob (dumb idea for 2022)
team figure skating
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Biathlon and cross-country have huge European ratings. They wouldn't give them up. Not to mention the ski courses are some of the more lasting infrastructure anyways that's beneficial for year-round public use, of all the events these are some of the easier to justify the legacy benefit.
Ski jumping and nordic combined sure. High costs fr jumps for relatively low-payoff. Tradition is what keeps them around, really.
Speed skating is a pretty popular event and a ratings mainstay as well. Would lose a lot of money if they got rid of it.
The sliding events were basically added to help improve the return on building the sliding track. If you're going to keep the other sliding events, you might as well keep these ones as it is basically three more days of ticket sales for infrastructure you're paying for anyway.
Team Figure Skating also doesn't add any infrastructure costs, but gives the networks one of their ratings favorites.