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See what happens when you give Euros the Olympics.UAHparrothead wrote:http://sports.yahoo.com/top/news?slug=a ... &type=lgns
going to be replaced by either golf, squash, karate, rugby, or roller sports
Actually they voted against all those other sports too. They are just going to have two less sports and about 300 less athletes in 2012.UAHparrothead wrote:http://sports.yahoo.com/top/news?slug=a ... &type=lgns
going to be replaced by either golf, squash, karate, rugby, or roller sports
Didn't the Australian softball team have some hot babes too?sailingagain wrote:Oh well. No more getting to watch Jennie Finch.
Forget karate, they should make mixed martial arts an Olympic sport.
Baseballs not an international sport??? But I am with you on the swimmingLightning Bolt wrote:Sorry to hear about this change in format, but to be realistic:
Baseball and Softball are just not truly INTERNATIONAL sports. It's OUR sport.
Too few countries besides the U.S.A. bother to play the game, and Olympics
represent sports of WORLD competition.
Which leads me to ask - What's the story with keeping Synchronized Swimming??
training facilities are incredibly cheap. you can do it anywhere you have a pool...Lightning Bolt wrote:Sorry to hear about this change in format, but to be realistic:
Baseball and Softball are just not truly INTERNATIONAL sports. It's OUR sport.
Too few countries besides the U.S.A. bother to play the game, and Olympics
represent sports of WORLD competition.
Which leads me to ask - What's the story with keeping Synchronized Swimming??
It is.... but, then again, It's really not when you look closely.longlinergirl wrote:Baseballs not an international sport??? But I am with you on the swimmingLightning Bolt wrote:Sorry to hear about this change in format, but to be realistic:
Baseball and Softball are just not truly INTERNATIONAL sports. It's OUR sport.
Too few countries besides the U.S.A. bother to play the game, and Olympics
represent sports of WORLD competition.
Which leads me to ask - What's the story with keeping Synchronized Swimming??
) have teams who wish to compete.The United States baseball team didn't qualify for the Olympics last year. Greece, as the host country, was allowed to enter a baseball team and I think most of the players were Americans.Lightning Bolt wrote:It is.... but, then again, It's really not when you look closely.longlinergirl wrote:Baseballs not an international sport??? But I am with you on the swimmingLightning Bolt wrote:Sorry to hear about this change in format, but to be realistic:
Baseball and Softball are just not truly INTERNATIONAL sports. It's OUR sport.
Too few countries besides the U.S.A. bother to play the game, and Olympics
represent sports of WORLD competition.
Which leads me to ask - What's the story with keeping Synchronized Swimming??
Outside the U.S., it's really only played seriously by our neighbors to the south
down to Colombia & Venezuela, and then Japan, Korea, and Australia.
Throw in Cuba & Dominican Republic and you've got some 16 countries represented with real aspirations.
I know that that is the number of teams in the Olympic tournament, but that's pretty much the only countries who do compete, anyway.
I think of the Olympics as a sporting meet which people from ALL continents (save Antarctica