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  1. De_Gambassi
    Some of it, yes. It's very early stage anyway..
  2. De_Gambassi
    Not sure if it deserves it, but Barcelona is looking (again) to big for the 2030 games. They don't plan to built a sledding track, but to use the one we have in France. https://www.lavanguardia.com/economia/management/20190104/453927951140/olimpiadas-pirineus-barcelona-2030.html
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    Final Too bad, it doesn't count yet for Tokyo qualifications.
  4. De_Gambassi
    Since 1987, before that it developed an international game that any sport bar a few could ever dream of. Same with cricket. World cup/championship is not, nor it should be, the only option when we are talking about international sport.
  5. De_Gambassi
    Fine, world championship... It's a very short view to believe that every team sport should have a world cup/championship just because the major team sports have one. Something makes sense or doesn't. This doesn't. There is nothing necessary about this world championship. Not having a world cup/championship doesn't mean either you are cutting the sport from international matches. There are other ways. Take rugby union for most of this life as an exemple.
  6. De_Gambassi
    I don't really understand why every team sports under the sunlight should have a world cup. Many sports are clearly not international spread enough to warrant one. It should be ok not to have a world cup. This is not helping anyone. Just have yearly test series between the few countries who can actually play the sport, and a developpement world cup for the rest of the field.
  7. De_Gambassi
    That was more like bandy talking to itself about inclunding bandy at the olympics.
  8. De_Gambassi
    Do you have a link on that ?
  9. De_Gambassi
    If you want a winter olympic outside of Europe/ East Asia/ N-A you'd probably need to get rid first of the sledding and skating sports
  10. De_Gambassi
    If by requirements, you mean venues capacity. I don't believe it would make much of a difference. Many of the stands used are temporary nowadays (and are dirt cheap), and no one is going to build a 10,000 seats permanent ballpark anymore when there are hardly 10 baseball players in the whole country (Athens, hi) Besides, we have seen with Sion, that even a bid with no building requirements could fail. The problem goes deeper than that.
  11. De_Gambassi
    Whaaaaaaaaaaaat ?! that's fucking insane. That's robery, plain and simple.
  12. De_Gambassi
    Aparently, FIVB is asking $500K to host any of these tournaments. If so, then, there is no other word to call it but a fraud. I'm hopping that the IOC will step in at some point to stop this madness. OQT should not be used in any maner to bring back money into IFs pocket. https://www.onet.pl/?utm_source=sport_viasg&utm_medium=nitro&utm_campaign=allonet_nitro_new&srcc=ucs&pid=4c142e8b-25d6-48b1-ab83-b52b941845c7&sid=96fc7e4d-c74c-44d9-ab11-c24e6131b623&utm_v=2
  13. De_Gambassi
    IOC is also making a profit staging sports that doesn't cost much to have (infrastuctures and quotas wise). Which is defintly the case of squash. That's a - very - important part of the equation. Squash is not an huge money maker, but it does make money (which means there are people who cares about it somewhere), more so than quite a few olympic sports. Unfortunatly for you, that Monzanator has or has not watched any given sport in his lifetime is not (yet) an official critera for olympic inclusion.
  14. De_Gambassi
    Yeah, sure... I, for one, have zero interest in this sport, but I can distinguish (or at least trying) between one sport and another whithout relying on personnal/national biases...
  15. De_Gambassi
    If squash is niche, then a good amount of olympic sports is niche also. Squash actually has a pro tier whithout even being an olympic sport, contrary to some olympic sports who would be dead in a week if it was not for their olympic statut.
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    4) Could be set up in any iconic parisian landmak 5) Has a relative good youth appeal (it isn't skateboarding, but it's not pétanque either) 6) The international federation has a french president (can't hurt) It's basically thicking every boxes . BUT, it's squash, they should allready be in, yet they failed multiple times. They proved how shit they are at lobying the olympic mouvement. So who knows.
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    It's probably way too late and it's not going to happen but basque pelota finally reminds itself that it doesn't cost anything to at least trying https://www.francebleu.fr/sports/tous-les-sports/la-pelote-basque-aux-jeux-olympiques-1548337246
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    Red Star should make the best of it before they are asked £500K just to particpate
  20. De_Gambassi
    Which is exactly what they don't want. The only point of the Pro League is for teams to have regular home games and to cultivate a fan base.
  21. De_Gambassi
    Watching Karate for the very first time ever
  22. De_Gambassi
    Can Desthieux reach the world cup podium without making a sole podium of the season ? #history
  23. De_Gambassi
    Unlikely, AFAIK, they've never done it on purpose and they didn't do it against Russia during the first group wich would have give them a slighty better schedule for the second round. I believe, they didn't really care one way or the another, and that was obvious on the court. Edit: one of the most amazing statistic about this team: since Beijing 08, out of the 28 KO games they played, they won 25 of them
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