It has been a while since the conclusion of the Tokyo 2020 Games. The best day to start my “Road To Paris” journey was the day after the Closing Ceremony. However, as usual, there was some dilly-dallying. So chose the second best day to start off this journey. Today!
It will be a shorter journey this time (hopefully). Fingers crossed that the covid disruptions are minimal. Although this year’s Asian Games, which would have also served as first qualifiers for a few events has already been postponed.
The events list has been officially released. This episode focusses on the changes made to the events roster in comparison to Tokyo.
There will be a total of 329 events across 32 sports down from 339 events in 33 sports at Tokyo. Following are the changes:
Sports Dropped: Baseball & Softball and Karate
Sports Added: Breaking (also known as Break Dancing)
Changes in existing sports
- Athletics: Men’s 50 km race walk has been dropped and replaced by Race Walk Mixed Team event.
- Boxing: Men’s events have been reduced from 8 to 7, while there has been an increase in the women’s side from 5 to 6. Consequently there has also been a re-jigging of the weight categories on both sides to accommodate the changes.
- Canoeing: For both men & women, the Extreme Canoe Slalom event has been added. And one individual sprint race has been dropped for both.
- Sailing: One Men’s Dinghy event has been dropped and replaced by a Mixed Dinghy event
- Shooting: Mixed Trap has been replaced by Mixed Skeet.
- Weightlifting: Number of events has been reduced to 10 from 14 with 2 events dropped in both men & women’s sections. The weight categories have also been rejigged consequently.
There have also been tweaks in the qualification processes in some sports, while others have had changes in the number of participants. Overall, continuing the move towards improving the gender parity.
Will start focusing on Team India’s qualification journey from the next episode (hopefully soon).
Links: Paris 2024 Events Programme
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