Golf, rugby make Olympic roster for 2016, 2020
Posted Oct 09, 2009 9:10 AM
By MATTIAS KAREN
(AP)
COPENHAGEN -All those beautiful beaches and Tiger Woods, too!
After more than a century on the sidelines, golf will return to the Olympics at the Summer Games in Rio de Janeiro. Rugby, last played in 1924, is coming back as well.
Both were reinstated for the 2016 and 2020 games after a vote Friday by the International Olympic Committee.
Each sport received majority support in separate votes after leading athletes and officials from both camps gave presentations, including a taped video message from Woods and other top pros. Woods has indicated he would play in the Olympics if golf were accepted for 2016.
“There are millions of young golfers worldwide who would be proud to represent their country,” Woods said from the Presidents Cup in San Francisco. “It would be an honor for anyone who plays this game to become an Olympian.”
Golf was approved 63-27 with two abstentions. Rugby was voted in 81-8 with one abstention.
Golf will stage a 72-hole stroke-play tournament for men and women, with 60 players in each field. Rugby will organize a four-day seven-a-side tournament — instead of the more traditional 15-a-side game — for 12 men’s and women’s teams. Golf will stage a 72-hole stroke-play tournament for men and women, with 60 players in each field.
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Is alcohol consumption allowed in the Olympics?
Would the alcoholic GM’s be allowed to play?
Chess is not a sport, let alone an Olympian one.
Chess has too many crazy people in it to be an Olympic sport.
Darts will probably make the olympics eventually too, as well as snooker. But not chess. Just my impressions.
Aren’t there Chess Olimpiads?
I agree that it is wrong to call chess a sport.
All though it can be a highly competitive game,
to me it is not a sport. When I think of a sport, it must have some special physical expertise of the contestant, such as swinging a racket or kicking a ball, etc. Although chess requires the physical ability to sit and concentrate for hours on end, this is not particular to chess but applies to countless other things that people want to excel in. Calling chess a sport just dilutes the original meaning of the word. Chess is a great competitive MIND game. It is only recently that some people have started calling chess a sport. When I was young (I am 58) nobody referred to chess as a sport. The word was reserved for activities that really are sports. Don’t get me wrong. I love chess and it can be a highly competive game, but not a sport.
This where you all are wrong my friends. Chess is a sport waiting to happen! Imagine a chess game played like chess boxing but the goal is to catch and disrobe your opponent! You cannot use your hands and you must wear a special toilet helmet while chasing your opponent. All the while, both players are covered with liberal coatings of baby oil and chocolate syrup. The first player to checkmate or expose the other players *ahem* piece, wins the game.
Marcel Duchamp, patron saint of chess, save us.
‘It is only recently that some people have started calling chess a sport.’
It’s been decades since many governments of many countries officialy recognize chess as a sport…
‘Aren’t there Chess Olimpiads?’
Yes, that’s what we call them. We’ll make Chess Summer and Chess Winter Olimpiads if needed, too.
‘Is alcohol consumption allowed in the Olympics?’
Sure.
A bottle of booze is proven good for the snooze, especially after losing to a Magnus. Russians prefer Vodka, while the Americans prefer beer as beverage of choice.
The source of the problem is in the wrong definition of the word “sport”.
”Is alcohol consumption allowed in the Olympics?’
Sure.’
Smoking is, too. That’s why we’ll never make it into the clean world of sports.
Golf – a sport? Yeah, maybe for those servants who carry the athlete’s sticks it is.
Proof that chess is not a sport is that there are no drugs to enhance playing it.
‘Golf and Rugby, not chess’
They must be jelaous of not being able to play their sport on the Internet.
Chess as a sport develops fingerwork.
Chess will never be an Olympic sport. If promoted as an Olympic event, what about Checkers or Go or even poker? I agree with others here: though I love the game of chess, I do not think it should be considered as an Olympic sport. It’s a different category of competition…
Sam
Lifting those quadruple-weighted pieces is physical. No?
‘No?’
yes!!!
It is another sad information that chess is kept in the margines of public interrest.
Unfortunately, it is because of weak FIDE activities. They do nothing to improve chess population and instead change the WCC rule all the time.
I would propose a chess parliament, consisting of all 2700+ GMs, who will decide about the world chess organization operation.
Let Kasparov be the President of FIDE, with Anand, Kramnik, Topa and Carsel vise-presidents.
Let the WCC final and quasifinal (candidate torney) be transmited live in TV: e.g. Euro-Sport, with
hot providing of wise GMs.
Let every chess player do some donate to chess improvement.
Viet Lion
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