Here are the 7 new Olympic events to watch in Beijing

npr.org ^ | February 1, 2022 | Jaclyn Diaz

[Berlin_Freeper]

The 2022 Beijing Olympics are set to include a record 109 sporting events this year, with seven new events in snowboarding, bobsled, and skiing.

With a focus on new events with mixed gender teams, this year's Winter Games offer a greater balance between men's and women's events than ever before, according to the International Olympic Committee.

The IOC says the athlete make-up in Beijing this year is expected to be 55% male and 45% female. This is thanks, in part, to a broader selection of events at this year's Games, giving athletes, especially women, more opportunities to go for gold.

Those seven new events are:

[mewzilla]

Gee, I won’t be able to watch.

I have to clean the litter box.

[cgbg]

New event—mandatory vaxxing.

Mad scientists compete with new vaccines to see how many contestants they can kill and injure in a twenty four hour period.

[HYPOCRACY]

The single piano key note. Like the Alec Baldwin “interview” and every ESPN crapfest.

[MayflowerMadam]

Boycott Olympics. Boycott all NBC programming.

[Adder]

Missionary-position luge doubles.

Yeah...a new mixed team...I hope...luge event..

Pity the guy who gets stuck with the tranny...

[T.B. Yoits]

Since they have dance with a stick and a string, they could add snowboarding and skateboarding with a stick and a string.

[mad_as_he$$]

I understand...and sympathize.

[wally_bert]

I’ll watch reruns of Unsolved Mysteries on Roku instead.

The 0 lympics never meant anything to me.

[KarlInOhio]

Here are the events:

Women's monobob [one person bobsled]
Men and women's big air skiing
Mixed team relay in short track speedskating
Mixed team ski jumping
Mixed team snowboard cross
Freestyle skiing mixed team aerials

[T.B. Yoits]

Syringe throwing. Like darts but with human targets, likely Uyghurs. Contestants aim for the skin blotches on the sick victims.

[Bernard]

Are the "Silly Walks" and “Twit Decathlon this time around or in the summer Olympics?

[Harpotoo]

Here is 1 old Olympic event for me.

I aint watching a rerun of the 1938 games and what it portends!

[Berlin_Freeper]

Olympic Athletes dedicate their lives to training hard, to represent America at the Olympics. It takes a cold heart to inject politics over their effort and drive to do well for our country. Boycotting the Olympics in China will change nothing, other than destroying the dreams of our best athletes and suppress aspirations of young people across the country.

Top American athletes to watch at the Beijing Winter Olympics

[Berlin_Freeper]

Shiffrin

[Radix]

They need better dreams, IMO.

I quit watching any of this overhyped insignificant series of competitions a very long time ago.

[Berlin_Freeper]

Not everyone can be the best rest stop toilet attendant.