Pigs might fly

[Shining Glory]

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~

Its a nice dream you have.

Mine is winning the lottery and spending like a mad B*****d on woman, cars, booze,and paintball and living it to the max.
Rosie is smooth....WOW thats a "bold" statement to make...hahaha
Apart from winning the lottery i seem to do that already, so not much left of my dream to fullfill, at least i have a better chance of achieving mine.

 

[webby]

If Lacrosse has been refused entry into the Olympics despite meeting almost if not all the criteria, then the chance of paintball making it is a far cry from reality.

Nice thought, never gonna happen. Think about the organisation that goes into every other sport - regional championships, national championships, continental championships (eg North American, European), world championships etc. Untill paintball gets organised as such, it's not gonna happen.