BERLIN (AP)-International Olympic leaders are recommending golf and rugby for inclusion in the 2016 Summer Games.The International Olympic Committee executive board selected the two Thursday from a list of seven proposed sports. Failing to make the cut were baseball, softball, squash, karate and roller sports.
The board will submit golf and rugby for ratification by the full 106-member IOC assembly in Copenhagen in October.
Golf was played at the 1900 Paris Olympics and 1904 St. Louis Games. Tiger Woods and other top players have said they would compete if the sport comes back in 2016.
Rugby was last played at the 1924 Olympics in the full 15-a-side format. It proposes to return in the short-format 7-a-side version for both men and women.
The final vote will be in October, requiring a simple majority vote by the full IOC. No word yet on if the two sports will be voted on individually or as a whole.
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8-13-2009 @ 10:07AM
furrsher said...
Squash??? I thought that is something to eat.
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8-14-2009 @ 8:38AM
adcpooh said...
Absolutely NO! No golf in the Olympics, let golf be specialized as it is. JUST SAY NO!!!!!!
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8-14-2009 @ 1:57PM
sfbussel said...
The Olympics are an amature competition. All Pros. should be banned. This is the U.S.A. we should worry less about how many medals we win an enjoy the ammature competition more.
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8-15-2009 @ 12:56AM
Kyle said...
i think it's a great idea to have golf in the olympics cause we americans are rather good at golf and it would be nice to see us win more gold medals by playing golf.
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