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Article #142Re: [NEWS]: Baseball, softball, modern pentathlon out of Olympics?
From: Alain Moussat
Date: Sun, 01 Sep 2002 20:12
Date: Sun, 01 Sep 2002 20:12
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I suggest to create new aquatic Olympic Games ... My sport is finswimming (monofin)... and likes others sports, we had a chance to enter, but it's finished ! With all aquatic sports, this could be a good idea ? What do you think about it ? Alain Moussat Saint-Germain-en-Laye - France "Davide Tosi" <davide.tosi@comune.re.it> a οΏ½crit dans le message de news: 3d9a2169.499728748@news.cis.dfn.de... > "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. > >
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X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII X-Google-Thread: f8ca5,bb47ced18d22cd3c X-Google-Attributes: gidf8ca5,public X-Google-Thread: 101be2,bb47ced18d22cd3c X-Google-Attributes: gid101be2,public X-Google-Thread: 1132bc,bb47ced18d22cd3c X-Google-Attributes: gid1132bc,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2002-09-01 13:12:29 PST Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!archiver1.google.com!news1.google.com!newsfeed.stanford.edu!logbridge.uoregon.edu!kibo.news.demon.net!demon!btnet-peer0!btnet-peer!btnet!news-hub.cableinet.net!blueyonder!proxad.net!noos.fr!not-for-mail From: "Alain Moussat" <alain.moussat@noos.fr> Newsgroups: atl.olympics,git.olympics.official,rec.sport.olympics References: <akri6m$d7e2$1@news3.infoave.net> <3d9a2169.499728748@news.cis.dfn.de> Subject: Re: [NEWS]: Baseball, softball, modern pentathlon out of Olympics? Date: Sun, 1 Sep 2002 22:12:41 +0200 X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Newsreader: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2600.0000 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2600.0000 Lines: 48 Message-ID: <3d7274ac$0$8420$79c14f64@nan-newsreader-02.noos.net> Organization: Noos NNTP-Posting-Date: 01 Sep 2002 20:12:28 GMT NNTP-Posting-Host: 195.132.188.75 X-Trace: 1030911148 news.noos.fr 8420 195.132.188.75 X-Complaints-To: abuse@noos.fr