Olympic recognition.

[Duncan Berry]

Well which olympic sports don't have a womens event?

Men's only

• Athletics- 50 km walk; decathlon
• Canoeing- All 6 canoeing (C-1, C-2) events; K-1 1000; K-2 1000; K-4 1000
• Cycling - Team sprint; team pursuit; keirin; madison
• Fencing - Team épée
• Gymnastics - Horizontal bar; parallel bars; pommel horse; rings
• Rowing - Coxless four; lightweight coxless four
• Sailing - Star
• Shooting - 25 m rapid fire pistol; 50 m pistol; 50 m rifle prone; double trap
• Swimming - 1500 m freestyle
• Wrestling - All 7 Greco-Roman events

Women's Only

• Athletics - heptathlon
• Fencing - Team foil
• Gymnastics - Balance beam; uneven bars; individual rhythmic; team rhythmic
• Sailing - Yngling
• Shooting - 25 m pistol
• Swimming - 800 m freestyle

So the real main male only Sport Is wrestling as the others are just other forms of a broader sport

 

[Dusty]

Dont fancy yours much Dusty

http://images.beijing2008.cn/20070603/Img214086489.jpg

Ouch, that thing definitely has a scrotum.

 

[Paintball_Mad]

Lets spice it up a bit and put paintball in the paralympics.

But on a serious note the IOC says that the idea of the games are:

'To contribute to building a peaceful and better world by educating youth through sport practised without discrimination of any kind and in the Olympic spirit, which requires mutual understanding with a spirit of friendship, solidarity and fail play'

Without even going into any rules and regulations you can see why paintball, just from that statement the IOC made, can't really be an olympic sport. No discrimination? - how many females play? how many disabled people play? how many elderly players? ethnic minorities? Of course some people from all of these will play paintball, but not enough to make a change.

It Wouldn't be easy to watch and pick up for anyone watching it on TV. Not many countries play it. No one country would really specialize in it, to make it there one chosen sport.

etc
etc
etc

 

[Duncan Berry]

way i saw it was, first you need to an offical sport (that includes the 1 rule book, a governing body etc etc)
then you can apply for a exhibition at an oylmpics. If you get that far and the sport is a hit it goes to a vote to enter it into the next oympics.

so before the thought of paintball in the olympics is even thought of, it should be the goal to become a recognized sport first.
Just my 2p

 

[Pmr Man]

Dont fancy yours much Dusty

http://images.beijing2008.cn/20070603/Img214086489.jpg

o my god! is it brenda, or maybe audry?

 

[stongle]

Men's only


[*]Shooting - 25 m rapid fire pistol;

Is this really an event, can I turn up with my Mac 10 and own all? They should make it more difficult, 25m rapid fire tech's from the window of a Escalade doing 15mph.

Anyway, I thought this was the brainbox. Paintball in the Olympics, never going to happen; it's simply a gayer version of war.

 

[Duncan Berry]

lol apparently so i took those form the men and only womens events at the 2008 Beijing olympics list

or though it does sound like gangster's target practice lol

 

[Mactoshdog]

Well which olympic sports don't have a womens event?

gymnastic rings and parallel bars dont have women, but they do have a different event to make up for it.

 

[Paintball_Mad]

gymnastic rings and parallel bars dont have women, but they do have a different event to make up for it.

That's a good point, you don't see men's netball (not that you would want to). God damm it!

Women have to much power now, send them back to the kitchen

 

[joe6969]

It Wouldn't be easy to watch and pick up for anyone watching it on TV. Not many countries play it. No one country would really specialize in it, to make it there one chosen sport.

over 100 countries play the sport, its more the fact that its countries shooting at each other and the politics behind the Olympics thats why paintball will never be in the olympics