Great Park in Irvine?
With its seating for 352 at the championship field, and 50 at the regular fields? interesting idea…
Make all teams drive on Route 66 to OKC. They’ll come to appreciate the expansiveness.
Get your kicks!
They can just put up some temporary steel stadium seating along the infield and outfield. Except for Japan, that’s pretty much what all past host countries did for softball.
Not so much. Take a look at the sat view:
what venue is that?
that was a 4800 seat venue - not sure where you think you’re cramming and additional 4500 seats in the Irvine stadium without screwing up the other fields. Incidentally:
This is why they’re finding a suitable venue rather than building a new one. The plan is to not build new venues, even temp ones, as much as possible.
Come on, building softball/baseball stadiums in Athens is stupid, yes, but you think no one would use such a stadium in LA? What happened to if you build it they will come?
Not saying I think they should build a new one, LA has a Olympics reputation to maintain, for being the city that revived the Olympics by not building anything new. But at the same time, I think it’s a stretch to say there are no softball/baseball venues in areas within 8 hours of driving. If you had to go somewhere outside of California, I’m pretty sure they’ve got plenty of venues a state over in Arizona.
there are a lot of multi field complexes like this in socal. I’ve lived pretty close to a couple. This facility itself is a pretty new - open less than 10 years. Pretty stinking sure they knew the demand and seating required when planning it. Even in highly competitive travel leagues, you know who’s usually at amateur games? - parents of players and SOs. That’s it. 
Same goes with any student baseball games, but it’s not like baseball fields and stadiums are abandoned in the US. There’s an ecosystem in the US for these sports.
right, so what you going to do with a 5-10k stadium?
There was an article about legendary Regions Field on NOR just a week or so ago. abandoned for a looooong. time. I bet Detroit has it’s share. .
That’s more because of the area around the fields are also pretty much dying.
India ranked 71st in the medal table, below nations with much smaller populations including Georgia, Kazakhstan and North Korea.
India has now won just 41 Olympic medals in total since its debut in 1900, all at the Summer Games.
“There is no doubt that India has been an underperformer in the Olympics and generally in global sports,” said Ronojoy Sen, author of “Nation at Play: A History of Sport in India.”
“If you look at the population to medal ratio it is probably the worst.”
India’s history of untapped Olympic potential can be explained by several factors, according to experts, with underinvestment in sports being a major culprit.
New Delhi has never poured resources into a national training program like those of traditional Olympic powerhouses, which have long regarded gold medals as a symbol of national strength, Sen said.
“For nations like the USA, China and the (then) Soviet Union, sport was very much a part of their nascent national story, it was a means for global recognition and glory,” he said.
The most successful Olympic nations also identify and develop talent from a young age, he added, pointing to China, where “you see kids being trained right from the moment they can walk.”
Indian athletes often face obstacles such as inadequate funding and a lack of access to facilities, analysts say.
“When people say 1.4 billion people and only (six) medals, that is a totally wrong headline, because … 1.39 billion people don’t have access to sports facilities,” said Boria Majumdar, sports analyst and author of “Dreams of a Billion: India and the Olympic Games.”
I wonder how many athletes with an Indian background but starting for another country have been successful, which could show or not show how much a difference in funding leads to success or no success.
There might also be a cultural component were Indian families are more likely to not encouraging sports activities by their kids. I dunno.
Have watched the Ray Gun performance quite a few times now. I think the main problem is that she moved very slowly and the degree of difficulty was rather low. In a sports contest, you are judged by those things. That’s just how sports works. Artistically, I found it quite cool, especially after learning about the Australian wildlife she was mimicking. As an Australian I would be super proud of her. What a memorable performance, in the Australian uniform showing of some truly Australian moves. That’s way more interesting than the acrobatic stuff the other contenders come up with.
she simply shouldn’t have been there at all. No way she is the best woman in this “sport” Australia has to offer. This smells very fishy.
She deserves her own thread. I’ve seen articles about how her and her husband manipulated the process to get her to the Olympics, and about how it is anathema to breakdancing for a priveleged white woman who isn’t even a good dancer to get to exploit it. Since her academic works fits squarely within the genre that rails against cultural appropriation, that is, to use their term, problematic.
Now I’ll go see if the Australian aboriginal dances minic thier animals, which would mean more appropriation.
Seems like a pretty terrible person all around, really. Not even a good dancer.
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Figures. Not only is she not creative, others have been called racist for copying the dance style
How about women in aboriginal dancing?
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Ok, seems it depends on which dances she stole from whether or not it was disrespectful