Pigs might fly

[Rosie]

smoooooth, real smooooth

You knows it

 

[rusty56]

Originally Posted by IOC
The sport must be practiced by men in at least 75 countries and four continents, and by women in at least 40 countries and three continents.


will you please keep up

come on, lets just face that its not gona happen, end of.

jack

 

[Rosie]

Originally Posted by IOC
The sport must be practiced by men in at least 75 countries and four continents, and by women in at least 40 countries and three continents.


will you please keep up

come on, lets just face that its not gona happen, end of.

jack

Yeah, I never read that. Puhlease .
There's barely any female teams as it is (let's not go into the semantics of this right now), let alone enough women to have our own leagues (which it seems you would probably have to have, to have it classed as us playing the sport)

So...while it is in the very very faint realms of possibility for the far distant future for it to be classified as a 'sport' and all that bull, but you would still have to have a consistent female player base large enough too.
Which is sooo ooo o unlikely.

 

[Magic_8ball]

Okay; Fish, Rosie, get a room - and dont make the lady sleep on the floor like at Campaign Fish! Where are your manners!?

RE the olympic question - the title says it all. Half the players in this ''sport'' dont take it seriously, how do you expect outsiders to do so?

 

[Rosie]

Okay; Fish, Rosie, get a room - and dont make the lady sleep on the floor like at Campaign Fish! Where are your manners!?

I slept on a bed every night thanks! (not for lack of offering to take the mattress though)

RE the olympic question - the title says it all. Half the players in this ''sport'' dont take it seriously, how do you expect outsiders to do so?

Well. Do we take curling seriously?
I never am, and I don't expect them to take ball seriously.

 

[Magic_8ball]

Im sure most of the curling ''athletes'' take it pretty seriously, yes

Either way, I think the fact remains that paintball isn't going to be an olympic sport in the forseeable futre

I slept on a bed every night thanks! (not for lack of offering to take the mattress though)




Well. Do we take curling seriously?
I never am, and I don't expect them to take ball seriously.

 

[The Evans 11]

couldnt they just knock out some lame olympic sport like synchronized diving and replace it with paintball, would probably get more people watching the olympics, i mean what sport nowadays isnt involved in the olympics...apart from paintball of course

 

[Buddha 3]

Do we take curling seriously?
I never am, and I don't expect them to take ball seriously.

I'm willing to bet that those curling folks practice their sport a lot more than paintballers do...

 

[Buddha 3]

couldnt they just knock out some lame olympic sport like synchronized diving and replace it with paintball, would probably get more people watching the olympics, i mean what sport nowadays isnt involved in the olympics...apart from paintball of course

I'm also willing to bet that synchronised swimming gets more viewers than paintball.

 

[Buddha 3]

I was just having a thinking session earlier today and the thought came into my head, wouldn't paintball make an ideal sport for the olympics? I see the olympics now, and yeah sure there is like history and heritage and all that in the sports that they currently do within the stadiums, but with swimming, cycling, wrestling etc (there are a lot of other sports that are not track and field based) within the olympics these days and it made me think; wouldn't paintball make an excellent new sport for the olympics? Think about it, for a sport to work in the olympics you need to have a fan base of it in the majority of the countries that participate in the games, and those countries who do not have the sport in their agenda soon pick it up.
Paintball is played in easily over a hundred countries and im sure most of those countries participate in the olympic games, so what's stopping paintballers all over the world using theyre heads and trying to get the olympic commity to hear their voices. You're always reading about the decline paintball is in (esp in this months pgi!!!) so why not think about gathering all the countries together and uniting them in something they have in common.

It could result in the one event every paintballer wants to play, as well as that it would create a goal beyond the individual leagues each country has; which could offer stability for the paintball world.

Nicky~

Please don't have any more thinking sessions. Waste of time it seems.