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"James Anatidae" <parshall@citcom.net> wrote:

>Why the hell would they want to drop the modern pentathlon?  It's been part
>of the Olympics since 1912!  It's the ultimate test of athletic versatility!
>
>Baseball, softball, modern pentathlon out of Olympics?
>http://www.sportserver.com/olympics/story/515088p-4090841c.html

This is incredibly wrong.
They want to take out modern pentathlon, the walk (!), the complete
equestrian three-day event and greek-roman wrestling, all events that are
part of the olympic legend and that have in the olympics the main goal of
their sportsmen, to put in the olympics sports like golf and rugby, that
have their own non-olympics tradition and for which athletes the olympic
won't represent anything near to their main traditional awards, as it
already happens for tennis, football, basket, road cycling.

More, for rugby the IOC wants to add the seven men version, about which no
one really cares. That's not real rugby!

The reason for these stupid proposals is the same old story: not adding
more athletes to the about 10.000 of the program as it is nowadays.
There is a much simplier solution to all this, that would allow IOC to save
the traditional competitions and to add new ones at the same time.
That is moving indoor competitions to winter olympics!
Basketball, indoor volleyball, fencing, weightlifting, wrestling and some
other are all sports that are normally played throughout the wintertime.
There is nothing that wouldn't allow them to be added to winter olympics
program.
Some of these sports - like fencing - would even solve their internal
problems of the events number block.