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

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From: Herman De Wael
Date: Mon, 02 Sep 2002 19:23

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Davide Tosi wrote:

> 
> 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.

I also believe that this is not a good reason to include or not sports.
Sports should be included or not on merit, and the IOC should rather 
look for ways to cater for more than 10.000 athletes.

> 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!

And there is an even simpler solution, which would allow even more 
competitors - hold olympic games every year and move some sports to 
2011 and 2013 !!

I'm starting a new thread to develop this idea.

> 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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