World Squash - An Olympic Sport At Last? After being voted onto the programme of the 2012 olympic Games by achieving more rugby sevens, rollers sports, karate and golf sports which had been http://www.irishsquash.com/olympics.htm
Extractions: The 117th IOC Session in Singapore voted to include 26 of the 28 current Olympic sports on the programme of the Games of the XXX Olympiad in 2012. The Session decided that baseball and softball will remain on the list of Olympic sports as noted in the Olympic Charter, rule 46, but will not be on the programme for 2012. The two sports are, however, eligible for inclusion in the programme of the 2016 Games. Unfortunately for us, the IOC Executive Board also decided that as the numbers would be kept to 26, none of the five candidate sports (Squash, Roller Sports, Golf, Karate or Rugby) would be added to the programme of the 2012 Games Damn! Below is the full text of the World Squash press release on the issue: Squash Looks To The Future After Olympic Disappointment Squash Looks To The Future After Olympic Disappointment Ted Wallbutton, Chief Executive of the WSF for fourteen years until his retirement at the beginning of this year, added: "Squash has come from nowhere in Olympic terms to become the first placed sport outside of the programme. It is an amazing achievement and far from failing we should be proud that we won the race, but failed to collect the prize."
SportsFilter | New Olympic Sports Being Considered For 2012 New olympic sports being considered for 2012 include golf, rugby, karate, squashand roller sports, while softball, baseball and modern pentathlon may be http://www.sportsfilter.com/comments.cfm/3655
Extractions: Winning the Americaâs Cup It is often said that New Zealanders love sports, but in fact the same has been said of other Western societies such as Australia and the United States. There is some evidence that as participants New Zealanders are indeed more active than people of comparable countries. One-third of young people aged 5â17 are involved with sports clubs, and one-fifth of adults. But the evidence for spectator enthusiasm is less convincing. Certainly in any month 83% of adult New Zealanders (90% of men) watch sport on television, and a third will attend a game â more than go to the movies. Golf is by far the most popular participation sport for men (attracting over 25% of adults) and the second most popular for women. There are almost 400 golf courses in New Zealand (the highest number per capita in the world). Yet with rare exceptions (such as the visit of Tiger Woods in 2001), the game attracts few spectators. Amongst womenâs sports, netball is pre-eminent both in terms of participation (the most popular sport among adult women) and public interest. This has been encouraged in recent years by extensive television coverage and the success of the national Silver Ferns team, who were world champions in 2003.
Niue National Olympic Commitee Contact details for sports information in Niue Island.. Full Story Second roundof games continued today for the Niue rugby Union. Full Story http://www.oceaniasport.com/niue/
Extractions: Sioe Haioti ranked Number 1 Friday, 16th September 2005 Pacific lifters training in Sigatoka, Fiji last Friday, at the Oceania Weightlifting Institute set 4 Commonwealth, 20 Oceania and 20 South Pacific records. Full Story Official Queen's Baton Relay Program Thursday, 15th September 2005 NISANOC release the Official Program for the Commonwealth Queen's Baton to arrive in its 62nd Commonwealth destination - Niue Island. Full Story Queens Baton Relay - Organizing Committee Wednesday, 14th September 2005 Counting down 51 days before the arrival of the Commonwealth Queens Baton to the Rock of Polynesia. Highlighting the Official Working Committee organizing the events for the period of 7th November 2005 - 11th November 2005. Full Story 2004 Volleyball Season Prize-giving night Sunday, 11th September 2005 NIVA held its 2004 Volleyball Competition presentation of prizes last night. Full Story NHS Cross Country Run and Relay Wednesday, 17th August 2005 The staff and students of Niue High School held its annual cross country run on Wednesday 17th August and the relay the following week.
QIANLONG.COMBeijing PortalEach Olympic Sport To Be Put To Vote any of the five sports hoping to get into the olympics golf, rugby, karate, A two-thirds majority is required to be admitted as an olympic sport. http://www.beijingportal.com.cn/7838/2005/04/28/1820@2615306.htm
QIANLONG.COMBeijing PortalRogge Rules Out Cuts In Olympic Sports rugby, squash, karate and roller sports have been assessed by the Rogge, meanwhile, ruled out raising the number of olympic sports above the http://www.beijingportal.com.cn/7838/2005/04/20/1820@2603919.htm
USATODAY.com - Golf, Four Other Sports In Running For Olympic Inclusion Golf, rugby, squash, karate and roller sports are in the running for possible Golf and rugby have been top contenders for olympic inclusion for a number http://www.usatoday.com/sports/olympics/summer/2004-09-22-new-sports_x.htm
Extractions: OAS_listpos = "PageCount,NavBottom120x90,Top728x90,Zaplet1,FloatBottom,Bottom468x60,VerticalBanner,Poster3"; Classifieds: Cars Jobs Dating USA TODAY ... Weather Olympic sports Olympics home Winter sports Future Games Athens 2004 Full coverage Results Multimedia Salt Lake 2002 Full coverage International Index Tools Game matchups Sheridan's odds Live odds Sagarin ratings Indexes Scores Columnist index Sports briefs TV listings ... Sports index Posted 9/22/2004 4:33 PM Updated 9/23/2004 10:47 AM Today's Top Sports Stories U.S. beats Belgium to stay in top group of Davis Cup Germany to play Greece for European championship Presidents Cup deadlocked heading into Sunday's singles Wisconsin ends losing streak to Michigan with late score ... What's this? Buy and sell tickets to premium and sold out events Search by events or regions: Location Select a region Atlanta Baltimore Boston Buffalo California North California South Chicago Cleveland Dallas Denver Detroit Houston Indianapolis Kansas City Las Vegas Miami Milwaukee Minneapolis New Orleans New York Metro Orlando Philadelphia Phoenix Pittsburgh Portland,ME
Keo.co.za Real rugby (15 man) will never be an olympic sport again. I personally wouldprefer it. Can you honestly say that the olympic sports of synchronized http://blog.keo.co.za/archives/2005/06/sevens_skippers.php
Extractions: var sc_project=237955; Home June 13, 2005 The captains of the world's top 16 Sevens teams have expressed their outrage to the International Olympic Committee after one of the organisation's top officials made disparaging comments about the sport following a meeting of the Association of Summer Olympic International Federations last week. The International Rugby Board is currently pushing for Sevens to be included in the Olympic Games. A vote on the composition of the 2012 Olympic sporting programme will take place in Singapore in July. Sevens is on a short list of five sports for possible inclusion in the sports programme should the IOC decide to modernise the programme. Their response was a unified letter to IOC President, Dr Jacques Rogge, on behalf of the 86 countries that have competed in over 20 IRB Sevens tournaments around the world over the last year, with the highlight being the Rugby World Cup Sevens in Hong Kong in March. They have requested Rogge to "publicly disassociate the IOC from these ill-founded, unwarranted and damaging comments which have been made about the sport that we all love and have dedicated
Keo.co.za Translated to the olympic program, rugby sevens would sell a minimum of US$10m rugby sevens comes fifth when compared to the 28 existing sports for the http://blog.keo.co.za/archives/2005/07/rugbys_olympic.php
Extractions: var sc_project=237955; Home July 08, 2005 The International Olympic Committee will announce on Saturday whether rugby sevens will become an Olympic Sport. This comes days after baseball and softball were dropped from the Olympic programme for the 2012 London Games - and will replaced by rugby, squash, golf, karate or roller skating. IOC members held a secret ballot to decide which sports to axe from the existing list of 28 ahead of the London Games in 2012. And both baseball and softball, who will remain on the Olympic programme for 2008, failed to get enough votes. They are the first sports to be cut from the Olympics since polo in 1936. The five sports which could be admitted for the 2012 Olympics will find out on Saturday if they have been successful. According to the IRB, the introduction of sevens would strengthen the summer Games. It would bring in more spectators, more television viewers, more internet users and more commercial revenue than the majority of the existing summer sports, according to published broadcasting and commercial statistical comparisons of the existing 28 sports and sevens. Sevens comes fifth in terms of tickets sold for its world championships, when compared with the 28 existing summer Olympic sports. The 120 000 tickets sold over three days for the World Cup Sevens in Hong Kong earlier this year is only beaten by four of the existing sports: athletics, basketball, football and tennis. In other words, there are 24 current sports that sell fewer tickets than rugby sevens to their world championships.
Rugby Canada : Team News rugby SEVENS TOPS MOST olympic sports IN KEY CATEGORIES. July 07, 2005 The introduction of rugby Sevens would strengthen the summer olympic Games. http://www.rugbycanada.ca/index.php?page_id=174&lang=en&news_id=1023
Rugby Canada : Rugby Canada News IOC DECISION NOT TO ADD NEW sports DISAPPOINTS rugby WORLD The world aroundus is evolving at a rapid pace and the olympic sports programme should http://www.rugbycanada.ca/index.php?page_id=10&lang=en&news_id=1027
Extractions: Summer Team Sites Archery Badminton Baseball Basketball Bowling Boxing Canoe/Kayak Cycling Diving Equestrian Fencing Field Hockey Gymnastics Judo Karate Pentathlon Racquetball Roller Sports Rowing Sailing Shooting Soccer Softball Squash Swimming Synchro. Table Tennis Taekwondo Team Handball Tennis Triathlon Volleyball Water Polo Water Skiing Weightlifting Wrestling Winter Team Sites Biathlon Bobsled Curling Figure Skating Ice Hockey Luge Short Track Skeleton Skiing Snowboarding Speedskating U.S. Olympic Sites U.S. Olympic Fan Club Free eNewsletter U.S. Olympic Shop U.S. Paralympics Olympians on TV Photo Galleries Sports Jobs Ask an Olympian USOC Pressbox Athletes Events Sports Features ... chronology IOC releases report assessing Olympic sports By Stephen Wilson // Associated Press // June 14, 2005 LONDON The IOC released a hefty report Monday assessing the 28 sports hoping to stay in the Olympics and the five trying to get in, though the organization made no recommendations for adding or dropping any sport. The 265-page review by the International Olympic Committee's program commission lists facts and figures across a range of 33 criteria. The report is designed to serve as a guide for IOC members when they vote on the sports program in Singapore next month. Each of the 28 sports contested in Athens last summer will be put to a vote; any sport failing to get a majority will be dropped for the 2012 Olympics.
Women Warriors - Sports - Rugby The sport s international governing body is the International rugby Introduced byPierre de Coubertin, rugby was on the olympic program at Paris in 1900 http://www.womenwarriors.ca/en/sports/profile.asp?id=35
Games Learn English Kids - British Council\ You have to colour the sports the right colour. For example, olympic sports If you think that the rugby is an olympic sport then click on olympic http://www.learnenglish.org.uk/kids/flash/activities/mmolympicsports/sports.asp
Extractions: Here are twelve different sports. Six of these sports appear in the Olympic Games, and six of these sports do NOT appear in the Olympic Games. You have to colour the sports the right colour. For example, "Olympic sports" are purple. If you think that the 'rugby' is an Olympic sport then click on "Olympic sports" and then on 'rugby' to colour it purple. Remember! There are six sports for each colour! When you have coloured all of the sports, click on 'submit' to see if you are right.
Sports Factor - 6/9/2002: Olympic Sports - Whats Hot & Whats Not? The fact that we are an olympic sport and the increase in funds and dollars that softball is a better sport for the olympics than either golf or rugby? http://www.abc.net.au/rn/talks/8.30/sportsf/stories/s665504.htm
Extractions: Amanda Smith: Yes, theyre all sports that at one time have been part of the Olympic Games, but that got the chop. Other discontinued Olympic events include live pigeon shooting, rope-climbing, an obstacle race and something called the plunge for distance, in swimming. So if youre one of those people who thinks synchronised swimming is a strange and silly thing to have in the Olympics, well, thereve been plenty of others in the past that you could put in that category as well. Now, late last week, the Programme Commission of the International Olympic Committee released a report with its recommendations for what sports it wants in, and out, of future Olympic Games, for Beijing and beyond. On the out-list: modern pentathlon, which has been in a shaky position for a while. The more surprising exclusions though are baseball, and softball. And those favoured for inclusion: golf and rugby. Theyve been recommended ahead of a long list of other Olympic aspirants, including squash, surfing, dance sport, bowling and chess.
FightingArts Forums: Olympic Sports: Is Fencing In Danger? olympic sports is fencing in danger? 15762977 07/08/05 0110 PM I canunderstand them dropping something like rugby as it doesn t have much http://www.fightingarts.com/ubbthreads/showflat.php/Cat/0/Number/15762977/an/0/p
Extractions: There has been talk in the past of cutting fencing from the games, citing poor attendance and practical untelivisability. (Is that a word?) I believe that it is European block alone that has kept fencing around (I know that most Americans don't give a care about fencing). Do you think that the sport will be cut soon? Why?
London Olympics 2012 - The Times And The Sunday Times Many countries only fund olympic sports. rugbys inclusion would have delightedthe London organisers, given that Britain is the home of the sport, http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,4662-1686567,00.html
Extractions: RUGBY sevens, golf and squash, all traditional British sports, have been blocked from being included in the 2012 Games in London after an extraordinary day of move and counter-move in Olympic politics. The 117th session of the IOC produced yet another series of surprises after giving London the Games instead of Paris. Members decided yesterday to drop baseball and softball from the programme of the 28 sports, but despite the urging of Jacques Rogge, the IOC President, they were not replaced with any of the five shortlisted sports. The decision is a blow to the authority of Rogge, who had tried to get rugby and golf on to the programme at the Mexico City session in 2002 but had been rebuffed. NI_MPU('middle');
