Seb Coe is right. Adding XC to the Winter Olympics would be AMAZING... But adding it to the summer as a relay would be a mistake

Milan- Cortina 2026 would be perfect.

Cortina for Alpine events. Milan could easily host XC running

I nominate Ben True to coach the U.S. team.

I’d like to see Mo Farah do XC skiing.

https://youtu.be/6gi1BEi0ceY

They should just call it 'alpine run' and put it in the Winter Olympics.

I hate mixed events and I hate relays so I hope that doesn't happen.

There are too many track distances. So many of them are similar and the same athletes could win them. Like guys could win the 4 and 8 and the 8 and 15. For this reason we should remove the 800 and replace it with xc.

XC running at the Winter Olympics- 100%! Just hold it on the XC skiing course that’s groomed for skate skiing. I run on those hard packed trails all the time. Super shoes for insulation from the cold plus spikes. Problem solved! :-)

RunningOtaku wrote:

XC running at the Winter Olympics- 100%! Just hold it on the XC skiing course that’s groomed for skate skiing. I run on those hard packed trails all the time. Super shoes for insulation from the cold plus spikes. Problem solved! :-)

Yes, please. The cross country ski courses are homologated, requiring a certain amount of hills and total climb. The hills would make for good spectating and competition, like the Aarhus course at World Cross a couple years ago.

Chess Not Checkers wrote:

It's not a winter sport. All the Winter Olympic sports use snow or ice. That is the essence of the WINTER Olympics. Have them run with snowshoes over deep snow, that I'll agree with.

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How stupid are rojo and the rest of you who think cross country should be in the Winter Olympics? That is purely idiotic as many have pointed out. ALLLLLLLL....winter Olympic events take place on ice or snow. So yes if you want to do a snowshoe race that would be fantastic. But a cross country race in normal running shoes over grass and dirt is.....BY DEFINITION NOT A WINTER OLYMPIC SPORT. THE END.

DO YOU GET IT. LET'SRUN AND OTHERS????

MY God.

Speaking of Olympics, this wins the gold medal for "not getting it/ completely misguided idea."

Wow. Stunning/bizarre lack of sense.

Winter Olympics for cross country will simply not happen. Cross country is not in its nature a winter sport.

If we want any chance at xc in the Olympics, it’s gotta be summer. Put it first and make it a team event. It would be epic.

Also if 2028 is happening then Mt SAC would be a great course for the first Olympics competition in decades.

Right. The Winter Olympics isn't looking for sports which would allow the athletes from the Summer Olympics to double back and compete again. If it's important to have cross country it needs to be in the summer games.

Yeah, Aarhus had all those sand pits and mud / water pits, just replace those with a snow pit, ice/mud pit and leave the rest as it is in NCAA and other events if its snowy the rest of the course so be it.

Varro wrote:

There are too many track distances. So many of them are similar and the same athletes could win them. Like guys could win the 4 and 8 and the 8 and 15. For this reason we should remove the 800 and replace it with xc.

Now do swimming, where one guy can win 8 events, whereas in running winning just 3 events would make you a goat contender or the GOAT outright.

Seriously, dont give me this "theres too many running events" bs. I dont wanna hear that when swimming exists.

I hope you guys understand that IAAF/World Athletics is so minor and insignificant it has zero influence on the IOC. The Olympics gets 1,000,000 times the TV ratings as any Track meet, road race, or marathon.

I'd get rid of World Outdoor Championships, World Cross Country Championships, and World Indoor Championships and replace it with a yearly Summer Track and Field Olympics, Summer Cross Country Olympics, and Summer Marathon Olympics held in separate summer months. No indoor Olympics. These must be held at Major World Destinations ONLY.

It's so weird seeing people make claims that were specifically pointed out in the article that was linked in the first post of the thread. Since you won't read the article, it points out that the last time the US hosted World XC, there was snow, and the 2018 NCAA XC Champs also had snow.

If the snow is an inch deep, that's plenty of snow on the ground, but still super runnable. It's literally an idea that is great for developing the sport, and it is good for the Olympics because it gives the entire continent of Africa a reason to watch the Winter Olympics.

I can't think of a good argument as to why XC shouldn't be in the Winter Olympics. The only arguments against it in this thread are "An XC rAcE cAnT hAvE sNoW!!", even though the World XC Championships have literally had snow before. It seems like a win-win for everyone involved.

At least 75% of the TV sales and Ticket sales dollars should be paid to athletes as prize money and fixed stipends.

kma wrote:

Counterpoint: The purpose of the Olympics is entertainment. It should be ALL clown events.

This is 100% true. Seriously, watching highlights of Ryan Crouser and Joe Kovacs run the marathon and Kipchoge and Bekeke throw the shot would be just as entertaining as the other way around.

Ban hamlets and cow towns like Edmonton, Fayetteville, Doha, Austin, Eugene, etc. from Worlds and Olympics. It's insulting and beneath the dignity of our sport to be affiliated with smallish unattractive facilities.

Joshua Cheptegei and Jacob Kiplimo studying the course like:

https://youtu.be/6G0zo1r04Lk