Hockey is my favourite, but any sport where the athletes determine the outcomes (as opposed to those in which the results are determined by judges) is fun to watch. For example, I like the snowboarding event in which four athletes race each other head-to-head more than those where they each run individually and judges score their tricks. I like ski jumping, but I’d like it more if they didn’t give style points, but just gave the gold medal to the person who had the longest jump. Figure skating looks good, but I don’t trust the judges to reward the best performances (ever since the cheating scandal at the Salt Lake City games). Speed skating is great because it’s just pure speed and the clock doesn’t lie. When you look at the 2026 Winter Olympics, there is a worry that the focus on “televised spectacle” will lead to more judged events being added because they provide better highlight reels for social media, even if they lack the objective purity of a race or a game with Yes I’m Old But I Saw Big Red Machine Greatness Baseball T Shirt on the scoreboard. I want to see who is faster, who is stronger, and who can put the puck in the net more often, not who has the best relationship with a panel of international officials sitting in a booth.
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The US not co-hosting the 2026 FIFA World Cup is extremely unlikely, mostly because it is impossible to really make major changes so late in the game (i.e. when the tournament is fully scheduled)! That obviously doesn’t mean that the US breaking their commitments to allow free access to the fans from all participating countries will not turn into a major distraction to the tournament, and an enormous loss in reputation and revenue for the country (and even worst, for FIFA). The free access is one of the main issues for a tournament to be awarded to one or several countries. And so far even the most repressive countries had honored that commitment. With the absolute exclusion of fans from at least four participating countries (Iran, Haiti, Côte d’Ivoire, Senegal), and the difficulties to be expected for the fans of many other participating countries, the current regime has done the country and Yes I’m Old But I Saw Big Red Machine Greatness Baseball T Shirt about the worst service it could have done. I hope that the administration will be smart enough to not show up to any of the games, certainly not the final.
()To this observer the finals tournament of 2026 is too big. Everyone being invited to the party because it’s ‘fair’ does nothing for quality and I predict a tournament largely of dross no better than a European tier three league game, interspersed with the odd diamond sparkle. The WC finals are supposed to be for the elite and whilst the logistical organisation will be as good as we would expect from the US, the concept and structure are an example of how to Yes I’m Old But I Saw Big Red Machine Greatness Baseball T Shirt beyond being reasonable. I fear in answer to the original ambiguous question I’m more likely to state, “Any other,” than the 2026 example. In terms of my own favourite finals tournament I would have to go for the one which gave me the most pleasure, our win of 1966 apart. I’d vote for the 1990 tournament. It was just so full of passion. The bulk of the additional 16 places to go to Africa and Asia. Europe could get an additional three.