7 sports make case for 2016 Olympic place

Friday 14th November, 06:55 AM JST

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Smythe at 12:58 PM JST - 14th November

Agree fully with thundercat AND Ninjazilla in scratching the Olympics. We have the winter sports coming here in 2010 or something along that date & Province of B.C. in deep debts along with illegal loans all of which the Provincial Govt will be taxed the tax payers while Federal Govt will also hand in needed money taken from the tax payers.
Mark_McCracken at 01:13 PM JST - 14th November

Take baseball for instance: only USA and Japan have a significant number of fans and support.

LostinNagoya - What? The professional baseball players in The Korea Baseball Organization would likely disagree. Baseball is very popular in Canada, Colombia, Cuba, the Dominican Republic, Mexico, Nicaragua, Panama, Taiwan and Venezuela as well.
Xeno23 at 02:13 PM JST - 14th November

Why not go back to the originals? Greased wrestling (naked); armored fist boxing (naked); 400 m dash in full bronze armor panoply; a genuine Marathon run from Marathon to Athens (naked); chariot races (naked horses); and of course, wanton drunkenness and buggery.
stanoue at 03:08 PM JST - 14th November

Roller sports would be as silly as BMX racing - and it's hard enough already getting fair judging on artistic/subjective sports. Flammenwerfer- I agree and if 7s was an Olympic sport you can guarantee more countries would put up teams than those who have participated in the (expensive) world circuit. Think PNG, Wales, some more African nations...
Disillusioned at 03:13 PM JST - 14th November

Golf is not a sport! How about surfing?
Potsu at 03:19 PM JST - 14th November

Please please PLEASE no Karate....Judo is bad enough,really ugly sport to watch.
Nessie at 04:20 PM JST - 14th November

baseball - no running = not a sport

softball - see baseball

golf - see baseball

karate - maybe

roller sports - What, like making bread If they're timed events, like speed skating, then okay. If they're exhibition events, like figure skating, then no.

rugby and squash - maybe; more athleticism needed than in baseball, but it's still not an athletic action, like a high jump, spring or javelin throw.
Stonecoldsoba at 04:26 PM JST - 14th November

Mark:

Baseball is very popular in ...

That's nine countries in the Americas and three US-influenced countries in East Asia. About as widely popular as cricket, then.
Mark_McCracken at 05:56 PM JST - 14th November

That's nine countries in the Americas and three US-influenced countries in East Asia.

Yes, correct.
magpie at 07:09 PM JST - 14th November

baseball: No as long as MLB continue to retain their stance (however forseeable many an MLB player may fail the drug test!). softball: no thanks.... Golf: If they can include tennis why not as long as we get, woods, garcia etc. plus many nations can participate. Karate: sure if Taekwondo adn judo are in why not. Roller Sports: Keep them to the x-games. Rugby: 7s definetely. The likes of Fiji, Tonga NZ are medal candidates. Squash: Sure. well diversified representationa nd actually very enjoyable.
TeruSensei at 10:07 PM JST - 14th November

Replying to what stanoue said, I think there was a lot of that sort of negativity about the BMX before the 2008 games, but the event itself proved to everyone that it was a worthy addition to the games.

It was fun, exciting, interesting, and successful, everything that it was hoped to be.
Soochi at 10:57 PM JST - 14th November

That's nine countries in the Americas and three US-influenced countries in East Asia.

Yes, correct.

Except cricket has Test Status teams and National Federations in each of the five continents the Olympic Rings represent, as does rugby. Baseball as a gloabl sport is a poor comparison by any stretch of the imagination.
eresay at 01:26 AM JST - 15th November

baseball - no running = not a sport

Have you ever seen a stolen base? A player stretch out a double to a triple?
bebert at 11:09 PM JST - 15th November

Anything that doesn't involve a pool, track or a boat is fine by me. I don't see why they have to limit the event to 28 sports. Let rich sports like golf and baseball buy an additional slot with outside media coverage and bump the number of sports up to 30. That way golf fanatics can watch the whole thing on a golf-only channel instead of getting to see only 20 minutes of from the official broadcaster.

Personally, I'd like to see softball come back. Let the tom boys have their chance to shine.
EurajReturns at 01:55 AM JST - 21st November

baseball - no running = not a sport

softball - see baseball

golf - see baseball

karate - maybe

roller sports - What, like making bread If they're timed events, like speed skating, then okay. If they're exhibition events, like figure skating, then no.

rugby and squash - maybe; more athleticism needed than in baseball, but it's still not an athletic action, like a high jump, spring or javelin throw.

I think the Olympics would lose more than half of its sports with that kind of judging...