After this olympics finished, I wondered, why can’t the olympics be hosted more frequently and why specifically four years. Btw, summer to winter doesn’t count, i’m talking four year leaps from summer to summer or winter to winter
After this olympics finished, I wondered, why can’t the olympics be hosted more frequently and why specifically four years. Btw, summer to winter doesn’t count, i’m talking four year leaps from summer to summer or winter to winter
I could see maybe once every three years. Though anything quicker than that and the Olympics would become a LOT less special. There also has to be time to have qualifiers, to be able to actually determine who comes to the Olympics itself, that’s quite a process when it’s the entire world competing.
Track and field, swimming and gymnastics all have major televised competitions and championship events if you’re interested more in the performance than the spectacle, and they’re part of the Olympic qualifiers so you’re seeing the people who will be in the Olympics. They’re a lot of fun to watch and also make watching the games better, because you know your athletes and who they’re racing against better. Otherwise if you only watch the Olympics, by the time you get to know everyone their events are almost over.
The track and field World Championship is especially good. They’ve usually got a big crowd and it feels just like you’re watching the Olympics. And at least in the US, the same announcers even do them so it’s basically a mini Olympics for track and field athletes (NBC is in charge of the broadcast too). They are held twice between each Olympics.