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In 2009, the International Olympic Committee decided to promote golf to the list of 25 “core sports”.

It was so impressed by the star wattage of Tiger Woods, who contributed to the presentation, that it invited some of the world’s richest and most inaccessible sportspeople to join its festival of Corinthian values.

The irony is that, if the meeting had happened just a fortnight later, Woods’s credibility would have been badly dented by his encounter with a fire hydrant.

Four years on, it is time for another IOC knees-up in Buenos Aires. And squash, one of the sports that lost out to golf last time around, is back on the catwalk for another agonising beauty parade.

On a shortlist of three, it has one strong rival in wrestling – which is aiming to show “bouncebackability” after being dropped from the Games in February – and one weak one in a hybrid form of baseball-softball. How can you take a sport seriously when it cannot decide what to call itself?

The 25 sports, as proposed by the IOC Executive Board (EB) in February, are: athletics, rowing, badminton, basketball, boxing, canoeing, cycling, equestrian, fencing, football, gymnastics, weightlifting, handball, hockey, judo, aquatics, modern pentathlon, taekwondo, tennis, table tennis, shooting, archery, triathlon, sailing and volleyball.

Turdacious wrote:

The 25 sports, as proposed by the IOC Executive Board (EB) in February, are: athletics, rowing, badminton, basketball, boxing, canoeing, cycling, equestrian, fencing, football, gymnastics, weightlifting, handball, hockey, judo, aquatics, modern pentathlon, taekwondo, tennis, table tennis, shooting, archery, triathlon, sailing and volleyball.

http://www.olympic.org/news/ioc-session ... mes/208824

the fearless freep wrote:

Turdacious wrote:

The 25 sports, as proposed by the IOC Executive Board (EB) in February, are: athletics, rowing, badminton, basketball, boxing, canoeing, cycling, equestrian, fencing, football, gymnastics, weightlifting, handball, hockey, judo, aquatics, modern pentathlon, taekwondo, tennis, table tennis, shooting, archery, triathlon, sailing and volleyball.

http://www.olympic.org/news/ioc-session ... mes/208824

Athletics is a sport? WTF does that even mean?