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Anyone here know where there might be a history of a firm called George Fitt Engineering? Sfan00 IMG ( talk) 14:12, 15 August 2016 (UTC)
Recently, in an a failed ITN/C nomination, Nergaal ( talk · contribs) claimed that the men's 100m final is the most watched sporting event at the Olympics. Is that true? I tried to find more on Google. One source [1] seemed to confirm it was the most watched Olympic competition on BBC in 2012, though the source seemed to only report BBC's viewership in the UK and not international partners. Without a credible source I also found a claim that the 100m final was second most watched competition in 2008 (behind the China v. Cuba volleyball final). I also found a number of sources comparing sports as a whole (e.g. gymnastics v. swimming v. athletics) but that's less relevant to the question of what is the most watched competition. Is there concrete evidence for the 100m dash being the most watched (or among the most watched) competition during the last several Olympics? I think numbers that include the international audience would be most interesting. Maybe the Olympics organization directly publishes such figures to promote the importance of key events? I'm honestly a little surprised that a 10 second race would be the most popular event, especially since it is so easy to miss if you don't tune in at the right moment. Dragons flight ( talk) 14:12, 15 August 2016 (UTC)
I once semi-jokingly suggested that India should have Tests, ODIs and T20s at the 2010 Commonwealth Games. If you take the 2 weeks early (i.e. total of four weeks) suggested by BB, you could probably actually host all 3 at the Olympics with resonable rest schedules if you reduce matches to semifinals. Perhaps host semifinals for the Tests in the fortnight before then start with ODI and T20's in the week before and keep going to the finals in the first week after opening ceremony. Then host the finals for Tests in the second week of Olympics.
You could probably extend to holding quarterfinal for T20, maybe even for ODI. Holding a group stage for even T20 (let alone ODI) would be difficult though although it depends on what you see as fair scheduling (rest days etc) and how much you need the schedule to be known in advance. As there would only be four country in the semi finals for Tests (well everything but Tests is what matters here) you could host matches for the other countries during this time and only host matches involving the four Test semifinalists (well perhaps a few involving others due to the need for rest days). I guess if Tests really are reduced to four days there will be a minor advantage too.
Still if you want any sort of group stage for T20s and especially for ODIs, I think you'd need to extend to 3 weeks or more, and you're starting to get to a level where perhaps you should just have some sort of qualification round sometime prior to the olympics and stick with semifinals, in a pinch you could probably start only about a week before despite holding for all 3 forms.
Mind you, an open question is how you deal with the many no results for Tests. And you're also fairly beholden to the weather unless you have fully covered stadiums (in which case you'd need to accept a Day/Night sort of test I suppose). You'd also have the problem that you can't really do much else with these stadiums given your schedule so you'd need at least 2 stadiums dedicated to cricket for the duration of the Olympics, an ideally with roofs and sufficiently lighting too, not an easy sell for a country with little cricket heritage. Some would also suggest a single match knockout is unfair especially for Tests given factors like who wins the toss although all sports have to deal with that to some extent.
I'm looking for an article about an air crash. It was about 20 years ago. I thought the aircraft was a DC-9, but there is no accident like this in the DC-9 article. The elevator jammed, and the plane crashed into the Pacific near Los Angeles. The cause of the accident was poor maintenance procedures by the airline. Can anyone identify it? Thanks. 195.89.37.174 ( talk) 18:01, 15 August 2016 (UTC)
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Anyone here know where there might be a history of a firm called George Fitt Engineering? Sfan00 IMG ( talk) 14:12, 15 August 2016 (UTC)
Recently, in an a failed ITN/C nomination, Nergaal ( talk · contribs) claimed that the men's 100m final is the most watched sporting event at the Olympics. Is that true? I tried to find more on Google. One source [1] seemed to confirm it was the most watched Olympic competition on BBC in 2012, though the source seemed to only report BBC's viewership in the UK and not international partners. Without a credible source I also found a claim that the 100m final was second most watched competition in 2008 (behind the China v. Cuba volleyball final). I also found a number of sources comparing sports as a whole (e.g. gymnastics v. swimming v. athletics) but that's less relevant to the question of what is the most watched competition. Is there concrete evidence for the 100m dash being the most watched (or among the most watched) competition during the last several Olympics? I think numbers that include the international audience would be most interesting. Maybe the Olympics organization directly publishes such figures to promote the importance of key events? I'm honestly a little surprised that a 10 second race would be the most popular event, especially since it is so easy to miss if you don't tune in at the right moment. Dragons flight ( talk) 14:12, 15 August 2016 (UTC)
I once semi-jokingly suggested that India should have Tests, ODIs and T20s at the 2010 Commonwealth Games. If you take the 2 weeks early (i.e. total of four weeks) suggested by BB, you could probably actually host all 3 at the Olympics with resonable rest schedules if you reduce matches to semifinals. Perhaps host semifinals for the Tests in the fortnight before then start with ODI and T20's in the week before and keep going to the finals in the first week after opening ceremony. Then host the finals for Tests in the second week of Olympics.
You could probably extend to holding quarterfinal for T20, maybe even for ODI. Holding a group stage for even T20 (let alone ODI) would be difficult though although it depends on what you see as fair scheduling (rest days etc) and how much you need the schedule to be known in advance. As there would only be four country in the semi finals for Tests (well everything but Tests is what matters here) you could host matches for the other countries during this time and only host matches involving the four Test semifinalists (well perhaps a few involving others due to the need for rest days). I guess if Tests really are reduced to four days there will be a minor advantage too.
Still if you want any sort of group stage for T20s and especially for ODIs, I think you'd need to extend to 3 weeks or more, and you're starting to get to a level where perhaps you should just have some sort of qualification round sometime prior to the olympics and stick with semifinals, in a pinch you could probably start only about a week before despite holding for all 3 forms.
Mind you, an open question is how you deal with the many no results for Tests. And you're also fairly beholden to the weather unless you have fully covered stadiums (in which case you'd need to accept a Day/Night sort of test I suppose). You'd also have the problem that you can't really do much else with these stadiums given your schedule so you'd need at least 2 stadiums dedicated to cricket for the duration of the Olympics, an ideally with roofs and sufficiently lighting too, not an easy sell for a country with little cricket heritage. Some would also suggest a single match knockout is unfair especially for Tests given factors like who wins the toss although all sports have to deal with that to some extent.
I'm looking for an article about an air crash. It was about 20 years ago. I thought the aircraft was a DC-9, but there is no accident like this in the DC-9 article. The elevator jammed, and the plane crashed into the Pacific near Los Angeles. The cause of the accident was poor maintenance procedures by the airline. Can anyone identify it? Thanks. 195.89.37.174 ( talk) 18:01, 15 August 2016 (UTC)