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Which of these indigenous but popular sports would you like to see in Olympics?

Siddhartha Talukdar
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Which of these indigenous but popular sports would you like to see in Olympics?  

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  1. 1. Which of these indigenous but popular sports would you like to see in Olympics?

    • American Football
      2
    • Australian Rules Football
      1
    • Basque pelota
      5
    • Brazilian jiu-jitsu
      3
    • Dibeke
      0
    • Hurling
      0
    • Lawn bowls
      6
    • Kabbadi
      7
    • Kurash
      0
    • Sepaktakraw
      6
    • Any other
      8

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intoronto
intoronto

None of the above

Vektor
Vektor

Well, if bowls is really that popular and if the nations can agree on a format, I would see no issues with it as an Olympic sport. Sadly IOC is more interested in adding X Games sports. 

LDOG
LDOG

Kabaddi is really fun and unique even if internationally it isnt very competitive yet.

Vektor Rising Star

Vektor   3,326

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If I have to pick one, I would go with bowls. It's kinda like the Summer Games version of curling and I have fond memories of watching it on Eurosport in the late 2000s. For me it was a fun game/sport to spectate, which makes sense because curling is one of my favorite winter sports to watch. But does anyone outside of :GBR play bowls? :d

heywoodu Mentor

heywoodu   16,465

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25 minutes ago, Vektor said:

If I have to pick one, I would go with bowls. It's kinda like the Summer Games version of curling and I have fond memories of watching it on Eurosport in the late 2000s. For me it was a fun game/sport to spectate, which makes sense because curling is one of my favorite winter sports to watch. But does anyone outside of :GBR play bowls? :d

Children and old people do, on vacation :d 

 

And probably not on a lawn :p 

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phelps Experienced

phelps   8,730

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1 hour ago, Vektor said:

If I have to pick one, I would go with bowls. It's kinda like the Summer Games version of curling and I have fond memories of watching it on Eurosport in the late 2000s. For me it was a fun game/sport to spectate, which makes sense because curling is one of my favorite winter sports to watch. But does anyone outside of :GBR play bowls? :d

you'd be surprised to see how deep is the game...

 

the main problem is that more or less every Country has its variation...

 

the 2 main kind of bowls game (Petanque and Raffa) have a lot of Countries capable of shining at the world champs...

rajiv Explorer

rajiv   31

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Bowls and Netball are the regular Commonwealth Games sports not in the Olympics 

They are both 5 continent sports  ( which is more than a few of the existing Olympic sports can claim )

I note that triathlon and rugby 7s were firstly Commonwealth Games sports which were later Olympic sports 

De_Gambassi Community Regular

De_Gambassi   1,369

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None. But we need démonstration sports back. They were nice for that reason, to show off local sports that for many reasons should not be at the olympics otherwise.

Vektor Rising Star

Vektor   3,326

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49 minutes ago, rajiv said:

Bowls and Netball are the regular Commonwealth Games sports not in the Olympics 

They are both 5 continent sports  ( which is more than a few of the existing Olympic sports can claim )

I note that triathlon and rugby 7s were firstly Commonwealth Games sports which were later Olympic sports 

Now that you mention this, netball for Brisbane 2032 isn't an outlandish idea if Japan and the US can get baseball for their Games. 

JoshMartini007 Rising Star

JoshMartini007   2,864

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If countries can decide which version of lawn bowls to focus on they would have more than enough nations to be eligible for the Olympics.

 

Of course with Olympics wanting to attract a younger crowd, boules will likely never make it to the games.

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