What will happen to sport over the next 100 years?

Ubbquittious

There are already reports of China doing whole-genome sequencing on gymnasts and they start training them in special camps from age 4. It would not surprise me if they have already started doing selective breeding, gene editing and possibly cloning. With gymnastics they can have results in 16 years (or less if they pass them off as older than they are, which they are also under suspicion of having done already). There has been a huge increase in the amount of medals won by China since about 2000 in these sports

I would say the list of athletes not doing doping for the 2022 Olympics is very short altogether and it's all about not getting caught rather than not doping. Countries seem to have accepted that the odd one will get caught and if none are getting caught they're being too careful. The doping cat and mouse game is set to continue but certain forms of it that will get you banned now will eventually be allowed and accepted as normal.

Anything involving animals will likely see a kibosh before the end of the century as the anti-cruelty movement gains more momentum. The grand national will probably be give up the fences first and eventually be derided as barbaric, with this gone the rest of the animal sports will start to drop like dominoes. Bullfighting and fox hunting will probably be banned everywhere in the west within the next decade or two.

There will be a kibosh on heading the ball in football eventually and rugby will be tamed to reduce injuries but these sports will survive as there is huge money involved. Asian teams will become more popular, AI overlords and tech will be much more involved.

Anything I am missing?

Collie D

Thierry Henry will still be a ****.

Strumms

You dope in sport… you get caught, medals removed, banned etc… fine…but, why is doping not a criminal offence ? If an athlete, team doctor and or sports team are complicit in doping then they should be criminally liable…it’s against competition rules and a sporting offence, but not criminal…. Although some countries such as the UK are endeavouring to criminalise it….. fûck handing out bans… a conviction and five years in jail…

doping will never be approved… the drugs utilised are unsafe… if X drug in x amount would be safe you’ll just have athletes and their trainers / overlords doubling their dosage….if 5 grams a week increases performance x%…. 10 grams !!!

its not like a fella who goes to the gym 3 days a week, popping a few vitamins… PED’s are a whole different ball game.

Zebra3

GAA will allow professionalism instead of the current sham situation being allowed to continue for inter-county players.

Hopefully the demise of rugby

Also,hopefully the international adoption of hurling as number 1 sport everywhere

AckwelFoley

No need for all the fancy gene sequencing

The West have the ball rolling on the solution

Identify as a woman, enter the women's events watch the metals roll in.

Winning athletes can hang their medals on their cock.

'Transhuman' sporting events will likely be widespread. Like something from an alternative universe of sport, athletes will be allowed to enhance their bodies with hardware and software technologies designed to boost performance. There will have to be limits of course.. the high jump, for example, would take forever to complete if compeititors are able to fly :)

starkid

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quite bitter. why would you want a sport that is a lifeline for many many communities across the world to dissapear? i always have to wonder why there is such bitter people towards a sport. very weird.

Hurling will never be global due to the lack of interest the GAA have in spreading it. your comment is qute apt in that sense. GAA is our insular sport, that has kept us from truly competing on the World stage and has only been exported for the true gaels that band together in expat groupings. meanwhile other niche sports like AFL, cricket, NFL, baseball etc continue to go global. AFL international competitions etc. your very bitterness which is not unique amongst GAA types is why it would never be a gloabl sport. quite sad really.

iḿ not anti GAA its great for our culture. but its got absurdities. if it doesn´t go professional in the next 15 years i´d be shocked.

sport is definitely in trouble.

the average age of Premier league supporters is an indicator of where its headed. its followed the 20 something fan of the early premier league to the middle aged fan of today. the supporters aren´t being replaced by the same young cohort.

rugby is doomed however. the head injuries will pile up and in Ireland somebody well know will get it and that will put the kibbosh on it as prime time investigates and middle class mums withdraw their hugos from the sport. i will agree irish rugby has loads of flaws, and its refusal/inability to grow its base outside of its middle class base in Dublin will be its undoing.

Gregor Samsa

eSports will dominate as more and more scandals and controversies erode public confidence in physical ones.

Playing pitches, golf courses and racecourses will be given over to data centres, affordable high-density housing and a network of electric monorail tracks.

The 2060 All Ireland hurling final will take place between the Beijing Gaels and TipperKerry Tigers in the Metaverse in front of a virtual crowd of 11 million, with 70 fifteen-year-olds who have never held an actual hurling bat in their hands competing.

Darts will be the only “analog” sport to survive, but you’ll need a license and a Kevlar suit to play it as all sharp objects will be restricted.

Collie D

Nobody has mentioned Mayo winning Sam yet….

Furze99

Sporting events overall to be drastically shortened to suit TV audience attention spans and advertisers time slots. Golf if it survives to be reduced to 9 holes of Par3 and if it doesn't, well good riddance to it as a waste of time and land. Likewise field games like soccer, GAA, rugby whatever to be reduced to 4 x 10 minute playing intervals, with 5 minute sos uisce ad breaks etc etc. ESports as mentioned above to become mainstream and promoted as non violent activities with equal opportunity for all sexes.

Gregor Samsa

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Russia’s annexation of Mayo in 2038 - ostensibly to “protect” 14 Russian citizens in Ballinrobe - puts an end to their All Ireland hopes.

The people of the newly formed Autonomous Atlantic Oblast turn their attention to winning the Kontenental Hockey League, and massive investment is made in ice hockey infrastructure.

However, a curse placed upon them by an Orthodox Priest who was enraged at a sub-standard Borscht Burger served to him in Supermacs in Putingrad (formerly Westport) puts an end to that

Richard Hillman

Sports seem to be becoming more about the elite of the elite, as that's where the TV money is.

For football, the super League will eventually take off.

There's been a lot of talk in golf about trying to get an all new elite tour going. Where it's only about 20-30 in the fields.

There has been a battle in tennis recently about money distribution.

Cricket has been ruined by T20. Only 3-4 teams play test cricket regularly. Now it's becoming all about T20 franchise leagues.

F1 barely goes to any of its traditional bases anymore. They've jumped to the quick money market. There have also been arguements about money distribution. Some teams want more of the slice of pie.

Ultimately it's all about money distribution. The elite of the elite, the very best teams and performers want a bigger slice of revenue due to the fact that people tune into the sports for they feel they bring in the bulk of the TV viewership.