I wouldn't against the final mecha being more athletic. I'm dying for another GekiTouja and a suit that promotes movement, rather than bigger guns :lol

But the individual mechs I really don't see being anything other than animals.
I know there are vehicular sports, but I don't see them being clever enough for that, to be honest.

I was about to say something along these lines. You don't have to explicitly use the Olympics license to ride the hype.

A mash-up of different sports gear, maybe?

Given Sentai's recent trends, my guess is animals wearing sports equipment. Its going to be ridiculous and silly and its probably kind of adorable. Because nothing says sports quite like adorable.

Anyone have any idea why Super Sentai got English dubs of their opening, and sometimes ending, songs from Carranger to Timeranger? Even Kamen Rider Kuuga, which aired alongside Timeranger, got one. What was so special about that time period that got them interested in such a thing? Were English language songs just one of the trends of the mid-late nineties that died off by the time Gaoranger and Agito aired?

Simple. Japan thought it was cool as hell. No other reason needed

Green Cricket Ranger with a cricket bat that looks like a cricket and has a name that is somehow a pun about crickets.

SOLD. :lolol

Why am I not surprised.

That sounds just weird enough to actually happen in a Sentai. I can't even begin to imagine what a cricket mecha would look like though.

Take the Hopper Zecters and make them mecha size. :lolol

I wouldn't mind the next sentai theme uses insect motif like kamen rider Kabuto and b-fighter kabuto/big bad beetleborgs. We only got Jin and J along with their buster hercules & goraigers and their goraijin.

The mechas could be like sea animals-like submersible vehicles if we have a sea-themed sentai someday ?