Gianlu33 3,570 Posted July 22, 2021 #301 Share Posted July 22, 2021 Now or never. Let's do it girls Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rajiv 25 Posted July 22, 2021 #302 Share Posted July 22, 2021 10 minutes ago, dcro said: Is there a more imperialistic sport than cricket though? Well that's your view Yes cricket has English origins Just like about half the sports at the Olympics Imagine saying that about football/soccer or water polo Although the inventor of basketball was a Scottish born Canadian both basketball and volleyball have American origins Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nobody 5 Posted July 22, 2021 #303 Share Posted July 22, 2021 36 minutes ago, Bhaw said: Really? Even cricket has more countries playing and more followers. Still better than cricket and kabaddi Gianlu33 and intoronto 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Agger 1,587 Posted July 22, 2021 #304 Share Posted July 22, 2021 14 minutes ago, dcro said: No, but is certainly fitting for a typical Totallympics bashing masked under a pretense of "discussion". Baseball/softball is like the only non-European-centric team sport at the Olympics. And it's here for one cycle. Just let it be. Though I guess it's pretty likely to return in 2028 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bhaw 8 Posted July 22, 2021 #305 Share Posted July 22, 2021 3 minutes ago, Nobody said: Still better than cricket and kabaddi The number of teams playing and number of fans following contradict your statement though. Anyways, to all their own. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nobody 5 Posted July 22, 2021 #306 Share Posted July 22, 2021 10 minutes ago, Bhaw said: The number of teams playing and number of fans following contradict your statement though. Anyways, to all their own. WBSC around 140 federations,cricket 105 if you include british territories Jersey,Guernsey.. intoronto 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dunadan 1,103 Posted July 22, 2021 #307 Share Posted July 22, 2021 Meanwhilea a small off-topic: Italy-Australia, women's softball, Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games, ended 0-1 MHSN, Agger and dcro 1 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dcro 10,179 Posted July 22, 2021 #308 Share Posted July 22, 2021 We never had any "external help" when it came to developing either baseball/softball or cricket. And while baseball/softball are as marginal as they can be regarding the media attention, they both have players and both have enjoyed some European success (men's baseball team is always able to qualify for the European Championships, men's softball team recently came home with a historic medal, while the women's team is improving as well). Cricket, meanwhile, is just non-existent. I guess this shows which IF is more invested into global development. anuj and intoronto 2 #banbestmen Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dodge 697 Posted July 22, 2021 #309 Share Posted July 22, 2021 Cricket actively cutting the number of teams going to to their world cup (the only sport I can ever remember doing so) shows they don't really care about the rest of the world. Some of the big nations clearly didn't like getting embaressed by the likes of and I have no interest in softball at all but good luck to the teams involved. I'm sure they couldn't care less what some fools on an internet forum think about them Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
phelps 6,792 Posted July 22, 2021 #310 Share Posted July 22, 2021 4 hours ago, rajiv said: That's because they are mainly American born and bred if only you'd inform yourself before writing this kind of stupid things... we have 4 american born players on the team out of 15 players... and of those 4, 2 actually have been living and playing in Italy since many years (more than 10, they already played with our junior team when they were young) and 1 has 100% Italian heritage... there's only 1 girl that's actually american who got our passport through marriage... p.s. despite her name, Kotsoyanopoulos is 100% Italian (with Greek father)... p.p.s. and the 2 stars of the team, are not among those "imported" players...actually, Piancastelli has been for years a star in the US college and pro system before returning home... intoronto and Gianlu33 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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