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**Official** Tokyo 2020 Summer Olympics

stephen

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Also, it's nice that Australian men have finally got a good in something. 5-1 to the women so far.
 
Burgey

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Lovely to see how much that relay win meant to the pommie blokes. Certainly rare air for them.
 
Spark

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Soccer should definitely be canned so long as they have all the squad restrictions in place. Makes a mockery of the entire event.

I assume cricket will be T10 if it ever gets in. I dunno how you'd find enough time to squeeze a full tournament with enough teams to justify Olympic status into two weeks otherwise.
 
cnerd123

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Spark said:
I assume cricket will be T10 if it ever gets in. I dunno how you'd find enough time to squeeze a full tournament with enough teams to justify Olympic status into two weeks otherwise.
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If you have 2 venues, play 2-3 games a day, and possibly use synthetic pitches (which is acceptable for T20I status as per ICC regulations) you could get 30 T20 games done in 2 weeks comfortably. That's enough for a 12-team tournament.
 
Spark

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cnerd123 said:
If you have 2 venues, play 2-3 games a day, and possibly use synthetic pitches (which is acceptable for T20I status as per ICC regulations) you could get 30 T20 games done in 2 weeks comfortably. That's enough for a 12-team tournament.
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Yeah I think you need more teams than that. I'd say 16 minimum.
 
Spark

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Btw how filthy would you be as the Italian men's quad rowers with the British. You're coming home with a late charge to try and win then you basically get barged off the course by the lot next to you :laugh:
 
cnerd123

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Spark said:
Yeah I think you need more teams than that. I'd say 16 minimum.
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even with 16 teams you could fit it in.

4 groups of 4, single stage round robin (24 games)
Top teams go straight into Semi Finals and Finals (3 games)

27 games. You can easily play 3 T20s in a day (4 if you have lights), and since synthetic pitches can be used for T20Is, you really just need 2 decent sized fields and you can very easily run a whole tournament in 2 weeks. Could even do a men's and women's tournament.
 
Spark

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Yeah I think you'd get a ton of complaints from traditionalists if you forced everything to be on synthetic pitches. Can't imagine the subcontinent boards would be keen on that.
 
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