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Article #143Re: [NEWS]: Baseball, softball, modern pentathlon out of Olympics?
From: James Anatidae
Date: Sun, 01 Sep 2002 23:02
Date: Sun, 01 Sep 2002 23:02
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Davide Tosi <davide.tosi@comune.re.it> wrote in message news:3d9a2169.499728748@news.cis.dfn.de... > 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. > That's a good idea! Somebody should suggest it to the IOC.
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