Bowlers are starved by Olympic exclusion and see themselves as second-class citizens compared to other athletes

They are afraid of Pete Weber....

"Who do you think you are? I am.....

If curling, skeet, and archery are in, bowling should be.

Spare me the details. If they don't like how they're treated they should go on strike.

I am banned wrote:

If curling, skeet, and archery are in, bowling should be.

Yes they are and probably if bowling would have been popular in France among Coubartain and his clan when they resurrected the Olympics it would have made it.

NO BOWLING FOR YOU!

I am banned wrote:

If curling, skeet, and archery are in, bowling should be.

I agree, curling, skeet, and archery should be removed. Those are hobbies not sports. Bowling isn't even fun, how does someone even put enough time into it to become a professional?

jimmy page wrote:

Bowling isn't even fun....

It is if you're XXXXXXXXXXX'n all day!

If you can do it at a high level while drinking beer, it's a game not a sport.

I am banned wrote:

If curling, skeet, and archery are in, bowling should be.

Might as well add darts, pool, shooting range, beer pong, pickleball, paintball, airsoft, fuseball, dodgeball, kickball, etc.

jimmy page wrote:I agree, curling, skeet, and archery should be removed. Those are hobbies not sports. Bowling isn't even fun, how does someone even put enough time into it to become a professional?

Curling is absolutely a sport. The combination of ideal strategy, angles, touch, power and teamwork is virtually unrivaled. When it's done correctly it's brilliant to watch, like both Canadian teams -- men's and women's -- sweeping through the world championships unbeaten this year.

Naturally when American teams are led by error prone types like John Shuster who looks like he indeed stepped out of a bowling alley, then the sport gets a bad rap. At highest level the Canadian sweepers on the Brad Jacobs team, for example, are so muscular they could easily be mistaken for athletes on high profile sports.

Besides, there are plenty of babes on the women's side, like Sidorova, Muirhead and even Rachel Homan. Lots of bending in that sport. I approve.

Golf and bowling are great fun if you are skilled at them. Quite remarkable how the toppers and shankers and gutter ball types dismiss both. They don't want to concede they royally suck at anything important, so the sport is at issue. Hilarious.

Bowling can be in the Olympics when Milwaukee hosts.

That isn't cricket.

Bowling, yes. Racewalking, no. Bowling is a great spectator sport and doesn't have the kind of cheating involved like RW.

lol yeah... sooooo muscular.

Canada is only the best because no one else actually cares about curling, nor should they on a competitive level. Guys like Jacobs are just the biggest fish in the tiniest of seas that no one under the age of 50 even cares about. You're not wrong about womens curling though, its full of hot girls.

Plus they keep on screaming "Hurry, hurry, HARD!" so many times.