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Re: [NEWS]: Baseball, softball, modern pentathlon out of Olympics?

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From: Alain Moussat
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:
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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.
>
>
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