Jon the Hat Posted 2 August 2012 Posted 2 August 2012 Mountain biking. If BMX is in there then mountain Biking clealy should be. Out, football, Tennis, becuase we already have truly global competition which is open to all nations. Sailing could do with a shake up.
Captain... Posted 2 August 2012 Posted 2 August 2012 Mountain biking. If BMX is in there then mountain Biking clealy should be. Out, football, Tennis, becuase we already have truly global competition which is open to all nations. Sailing could do with a shake up. It is: http://www.bbc.co.uk...g-mountain-bike The argument about football and Tennis already having global competitions doesn't really work, almost every other discipline has a world championships, including the athletics, the difference for us with football is that the World Cup is clearly much higher profile than the olympics, but then we have never competed before. In Brazil and other countries it is taken much more seriously. I would drop football though for Futsal, With Tennis, they have the 4 grand slams, but it is still taken seriously all the big names are here and it means as much as a grand slam title, but it is different because it is best of 3 in the mens.
21st Century Fox Posted 2 August 2012 Posted 2 August 2012 I hear kitesurfing (???) is going to be added to Rio 2016. A friend of mine is involved with the British Kitesurfing Association, I seem to remember hearing something similar.
Wycombe Fox Posted 2 August 2012 Posted 2 August 2012 Add - Beach Soccer, Squash and Monkey Tennis Delete - Tennis, Men's Football and Golf (back in for 2016) Beach Soccer and Squash are under consideration for 2020 along with Baseball, Karate, Roller Sports, Softball, Sports Climbing, Wakeboarding and Wushu.
Jimothy Posted 2 August 2012 Posted 2 August 2012 Add - Beach Soccer, Squash and Monkey Tennis Delete - Tennis, Men's Football and Golf (back in for 2016) Beach Soccer and Squash are under consideration for 2020 along with Baseball, Karate, Roller Sports, Softball, Sports Climbing, Wakeboarding and Wushu. That's an idea! A whole Monkey Olympic Games would be awesome!
Captain... Posted 2 August 2012 Posted 2 August 2012 Shooting can fvck off, even if we are odds on for a gold in it, archery is fine, but using guns is hardly a sport, unless you are shooting animals, that's cool
Raw Dykes Posted 2 August 2012 Posted 2 August 2012 For development of the great game 2020 cricket, I think we need to get rid of football and some of the other sports that are just weird and confusing, such as fencing, and judo, why judo and not karate? Or kung fu? Taekwondo (Korean karate) is in the Olympics. Kung Fu isn't a specific discipline. From Wikipedia: "In Chinese, kung fu (功夫, literally "work" and "man") can also be used in contexts completely unrelated to martial arts, and refers to any individual accomplishment or skill cultivated through long effort and hard work." You might think I'm being pedantic, but having an event called Kung Fu would be like having an Olympic event called "Fighting". Baseball (and softball) certainly have enough worldwide participation to meet criteria to be Olympics sports and were getting along just fine there, even without participation from Major League Baseball. Those sports should have never been removed from the program and I'd hope they can be re-instated for 2020. I agree with the feeling here that twenty20 cricket and rugby sevens. As for how Americans would feel about that, well, I can't see cricket becoming anything more than a sport for anyone besides those fresh off-the-boat anytime soon. Rugby, however, while still a niche sport, has seen a lot of grassroots growth in recent years, particularly at colleges and among amateur clubs. Having rugby sevens at the Olympics would give that sport a big boost here. I don't think rounders should be included. No-one cares about it, apart from USA and Japan. You need more than two nations competing to include it in the Olympics. There are plenty of countries who play cricket and rugby, and these two sports should be in way before rounders is even considered.
Mark_w Posted 2 August 2012 Posted 2 August 2012 Why would you want to get rid of football when it's one of the few good sports in the olympics?
Guest MattP Posted 2 August 2012 Posted 2 August 2012 Baseball already has a World Baseball Classic that started about 8 years ago. Japan have won it twice and the US wouldn't be a guarantees medal in it with Japan, Dominican, Venezuela, Cuba and Korea knocking about.
Guest MattP Posted 2 August 2012 Posted 2 August 2012 Why would you want to get rid of football when it's one of the few good sports in the olympics? Because footballers don't belong in the Olympics, it's bad enough seeing them in the papers everyday let alone watching them tread on people's toes in this as well.
21st Century Fox Posted 2 August 2012 Posted 2 August 2012 Why would you want to get rid of football when it's one of the few good sports in the olympics? Futsal's the future, we lag seriously behind the rest of Europe though.
Jordan Posted 2 August 2012 Posted 2 August 2012 don't think rounders should be included. No-one cares about it, apart from USA and Japan. You need more than two nations competing to include it in the Olympics. There are plenty of countries who play cricket and rugby, and these two sports should be in way before rounders is even considered. Weak trolling.
Knightonian Posted 2 August 2012 Posted 2 August 2012 Weak trolling. Fully agree. Baseball can be boring, but it is a brilliant sport. Just a shame channel 5 don't show it any more.
Raw Dykes Posted 2 August 2012 Posted 2 August 2012 Weak trolling. Haha! I genuinely thought that only USA and Japan showed any interest. I've never seen or heard any mention of the sport outside those two countries. I've heard of the World Series, which includes teams from all over the world (if you ignore everywhere except North America). Maybe I'm wrong and it's popular globally and there's some sort of conspiracy keeping it under wraps, I don't know.
Raw Dykes Posted 2 August 2012 Posted 2 August 2012 Fully agree. Baseball can be boring, but it is a brilliant sport. Just a shame channel 5 don't show it any more. I didn't say I didn't like the sport! I actually quite like it. I was just saying that there aren't enough countries interested in it to include it in the Olympics, that is all.
Knightonian Posted 2 August 2012 Posted 2 August 2012 I didn't say I didn't like the sport! I actually quite like it. I was just saying that there aren't enough countries interested in it to include it in the Olympics, that is all. I don't think it should be an Olympic sport, but it is very popular. Almost all of South America love Baseball. If we are looking for sports to get rid of, I suggest we ban all women's sports, like Saudi Arabia.... Then we ban sport on the Sabbath.... No more soccer Sunday's and Test match rest day's on a Sunday....
Guest MattP Posted 2 August 2012 Posted 2 August 2012 World series is only called that as it was sponsored by the newspaper called "The World" when it started. Few Sports have the popularity Baseball has, I love it. I won't mock Jordan by telling him I got into the sport during the fanous ALCS between the Sox and the Yanks a few years back mind now where did I leave Curts sock?
Jordan Posted 3 August 2012 Posted 3 August 2012 I don't think it should be an Olympic sport, but it is very popular. Almost all of South America love Baseball. If we are looking for sports to get rid of, I suggest we ban all women's sports, like Saudi Arabia.... Then we ban sport on the Sabbath.... No more soccer Sunday's and Test match rest day's on a Sunday.... Well, not quite... Venezuela, famous for its great shortstops, is the only South American sport where one might say baseball is most popular. Baseball is bigger in the Caribbean. The Dominican Republic, Cuba and Puerto Rico--where baseball is hugely popular--are powers in the sport. Panama (home of the great Mariano Rivera) and Mexico can both field capable squads, as can Canada and the Netherlands Antilles. The West Indies (along with Bermuda and Guyana), where there is lots of British legacy, play cricket, of course. BTW, Great Britain has a team in the qualification rounds of the World Baseball Classic .
Guest MattP Posted 3 August 2012 Posted 3 August 2012 BTW, Great Britain has a team in the qualification rounds of the World Baseball Classic . and someone closer than you think has played in the squad as a backup shortstop and pinch hitter.
Jordan Posted 3 August 2012 Posted 3 August 2012 World series is only called that as it was sponsored by the newspaper called "The World" when it started. Few Sports have the popularity Baseball has, I love it. I won't mock Jordan by telling him I got into the sport during the fanous ALCS between the Sox and the Yanks a few years back mind now where did I leave Curts sock? The "World" story is apocryphal; the name really stems from Americans being self-important. And I presume you mean that classic 2003 ALCS where Aaron Boone hit that famous walk-off home run in extra innings after an epic Game 7? Oh, not that one? ...
Guest MattP Posted 3 August 2012 Posted 3 August 2012 The "World" story is apocryphal; the name really stems from Americans being self-important. And I presume you mean that classic 2003 ALCS where Aaron Boone hit that famous walk-off home run in extra innings after an epic Game 7? Oh, not that one? ... Both classics to me, What a wonderful sport.
Haydos Posted 3 August 2012 Posted 3 August 2012 Why would you want to get rid of football when it's one of the few good sports in the olympics? Behave.
Guest Bilo Posted 3 August 2012 Posted 3 August 2012 I'd have thought cricket was much more of a 'world sport' than baseball. The issue would come with hosting the sport, Rio 2016 for example wouldn't be a great place to start. If it were going to be introduced, the IOC missed a huge opportunity with London 2012 with our abundance of Test cricket grounds. Baseball could definitely find a home at the 2020 Olympics however, Tokyo is one of the candidate cities.
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