Category: Olympics

Women’s BIG AIR Olympics

Austria’s Anna Gasser successfully defended her Snowboard Big Air title …

… Zoi Sadowski-Synnott grabbing silver and Japan’s Murase Kokomo taking home the bronze.

Click PLAY or watch it on YouTube.

IOC takes further action on Russia

The Olympic Movement is united in its mission to contribute to peace through sport …

At the same time, the Olympic Movement is united in its sense of fairness not to punish athletes for the decisions of their government …

The current war in Ukraine, however, puts the Olympic Movement in a dilemma. While athletes from Russia and Belarus would be able to continue to participate in sports events, many athletes from Ukraine are prevented from doing so because of the attack on their country. …

… with a heavy heart, issued the following resolution:

… recommends that International Sports Federations and sports event organisers not invite or allow the participation of Russian and Belarusian athletes and officials in international competitions. …

… decision to withdraw the Olympic Order from all persons who currently have an important function in the government of the Russian Federation or other government-related high-ranking position, including the following:

  1. Mr Vladimir Putin, President of the Russian Federation (Gold, 2001)
  2. Mr Dmitry Chernyshenko, Deputy Prime Minister of the Russian Federation (Gold, 2014)
  3. Mr Dmitry Kozak, Deputy Chief of Staff of the Presidential Executive Office (Gold, 2014)

… The IOC admires and supports in particular the calls for peace by Russian athletes.

IOC EB recommends no participation of Russian and Belarusian athletes and officials

IOC – move Events out of Russia

IOC Executive Board urges all International Federations to relocate or cancel their sports events currently planned in Russia or Belarus.

IOC strongly condemns the breach of the Olympic Truce

Commonwealth Games – podium protests permitted

  • Medallists can show support for Black Lives Matter and LGBT+
  • Protests subject to guidelines as hate gestures are forbidden

The 4,500 athletes expected in Birmingham this summer will also be permitted to wear clothing, armbands and badges on the podium to support social justice causes under radical new “guiding principles” for athlete advocacy due to be announced on Tuesday. …

Guardian

I’d call this radical — but progress. Homosexuality is still illegal in 36 of the 72 nations that will compete in Birmingham, for example. That should change sooner than later.

Tommie Smith and John Carlos 1968 Olympics – protesting racial injustice in America

Ukraine & Russia hug it out

Olympic medal winners Oleksandr Abramenko and Ilia Burov celebrate their success with warm embrace at medal ceremony.

International Olympic Committee president Thomas Bach called for political leaders “around the world” to be inspired by the athletes’ “example of solidarity and peace”. …

BBC

IOC must set minimum Olympic age

It’s stupid and inconsistent to have different age requirements for the Olympic sports.

Especially if you can’t enforce Olympic rules for athletes under age-16.

By Paris the minimum age should be 16. Or even age-18.

The Recent Rise of Child Athletes in the Olympic Games

TOKYO, JAPAN – AUGUST 04: Bronze medalist Sky Brown (age 13) of Team Great Britain (right), Gold medalist Sakura Yosozumi of Team Japan (center) and Silver medalist Kokona Hiraki (age 13) of Team Japan (left) pose after the Women’s Skateboarding Park Finals on day twelve of the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games at Ariake Urban Sports Park on August 04, 2021 in Tokyo, Japan. (Photo by Ian MacNicol/Getty Images)

Ski Jumping Judging Bias

Ski jumping competitions involve subjective evaluations by judges from different countries.

This may lead to nationalistic bias, according to which judges assign higher scores to their compatriots.

To test this claim empirically, we exploit within-performance variation of scores from all World Cup, World Championship, and Olympic Games competitions between the 2010/11 and 2016/17 seasons. (15,000 jumps)

Our findings confirm that judges assign significantly higher scores to their compatriots. The magnitude of this nationalistic bias is significantly higher in more corrupt countries.

We do not find that judges assign significantly different scores to jumpers whose compatriots are present on the judging panel. …

March 2021 – Scandinavian Journal of Economics – Nationalistic Bias among International Experts: Evidence from Professional Ski Jumping

Most biased were the Russian judges. Judges from Finland and Norway showed no bias.

video analysis in Figure Skating

Seems to me Omega is ahead of Fujitsu in technology.