CHESS??I don't see why not. They already have a biennial "Olympiad", and have had multiple cases of athletes failing to provide drug tests, with the international federation (FIDE) then coming up with an excuse to let them off easily. Plus their president is a Putin friend, and currently sanctioned by US for aiding Syria. They are even willing to play with pieces made of ice, to qualify for the Winter Games. What's not to like?
Knight hopper wrote:
CHESS??I don't see why not. They already have a biennial "Olympiad", and have had multiple cases of athletes failing to provide drug tests, with the international federation (FIDE) then coming up with an excuse to let them off easily. Plus their president is a Putin friend, and currently sanctioned by US for aiding Syria. They are even willing to play with pieces made of ice, to qualify for the Winter Games. What's not to like?
That already makes it more legitimate thank beach volleyball or golf. I approve.
I want to see female mud wresting.
Plus their president is a Putin friend, and currently sanctioned by US for aiding Syria.
Ilyumzhinov also claims to have been abducted by aliens (with yellow spacesuits) a couple of decades ago, and thinks chess probably comes from outer space (how else could the rules be the same the whole world over?). Somehow humans can increase their karmic goodness with said aliens by playing more chess, if I understand correctly (he has never fully laid out this theory).
On the negative side, his grand "Chess City" (Elista) that was built when he was president of Kalmykia seems to be universally panned (especially by the people who paid it for by taxes).
Championships start next month.2016 TWIF World Outdoor Championship 8-9-2016 (Sep 8) Sweden (Malmö)
With the entries for the 2016 World Outdoor Championships in Malmö, Sweden, having just closed, it is with great pleasure that we can confirm that this is the largest entry in the history of TWIF championships with the most countries that will have ever participated in a World Outdoor Championships. A total of 27 countries entered, some for the first time and a few others after an absence of a number of years.
All that we can say is welcome and welcome back!
This augers well for the future of TWIF and the tug of war sport expanding its footprint internationally. With continued hard work at all levels of administration and sports development, it is our joint responsibility to ensure that this momentum is not only maintained, but accelerated as we collectively work towards re-admission to the Olympics programme, our ultimate objective.
With new 5 sports (baseball/softball, karate, skateboard, sports climbing and surfing) having just been admitted by the IOC for inclusion in the 2020 Olympics in Tokyo, the opportunity is available for a similar achievement for tug of war in future Games. We have learnt a lot from the application process for Tokyo. The focus is on performance, attractiveness of the sport and appeal, especially to the youth and both men and women, as key attributes that is being looked for. We were unsuccessful this time arounds, but we will diligently continue working towards achieving our objective in this regard.
Having an official women U23 event for the first time, and growth in the popularity of the 4X4 mixed weight class, we have some key stepping stones in the right direction. For now, it is however up to our athletes, officials and the organisers of the event, to perform at a very high standard both on and off the competition arena. We are being watched from outside and it is up to every one of us to constructively contribute towards the bigger picture. Let’s ensure that we are not found wanting and being too “light†in our contest with other sports, all having similar ambitions.
I wish everybody safe travels to Sweden. See you soon and good luck to all with the final preparations.
I look forward to a great championship. It will certainly be a historic one given the number of participating countries.
ANTON RABE
PRESIDENT
TWIF Minutes (Belfast 2016)
7.2 Olympic Games 2020: Mr. Takahashi, the representative from Japan along with the TWIF ExCo, put together an application for submission for tug of war to be included in the 2020 Olympic Games in Japan. Mr. Takahashi explained that 26 sports applied but that only a handful made the first cut. Unfortunately tug of war was not one of those sports. The ExCo felt that the mixed weight class would give us the best chance to be accepted.
pop_pop!_v2.2.1 wrote:
Underwater basket weaver wrote:Tug-of-war is the second most deserving sport in the Olympics. Underwater basket weaving is one hell of a sport
No trampoline sports? C'mon now, this is the summer games.
pop pop
Come on now.
Have you been spending all your time reading about doping conspiracies involving Dr. Plan B Saugy, Lord Sebastian Coe, Paula Radcliffe, the IAAF, Nick Davies, Papa Massata Diack, Gabriele Dolle, UKAD, Dr.Bonar, Dr. Fuentes, Jama Aden, Alberto, Mo, Genzebe, Alex Schwazer, Claudio Berardelli, Federico Rosa, Kenyan Athletics Federation, Yulia Efimova, Sun Yang, USADA, IOC, Thomas Bach, Sir Craig Reedie, Grigory Rodchenkov, Vladimir Putin, the Irish Tug of War Federation and Jos Hermens?
That could explain why you missed:
https://www.olympic.org/trampolineSpaceball
Nissen and Griswold envisaged trampolines being used in a variety of new games, although they never grabbed the public’s imagination. In one, called Spaceball, two teams of two on a single trampoline with specially constructed end walls attempted to propel a ball through a middle wall, to hit a target on the other side’s end wall.
This I'd like to see.
Introduced in Sydney 2000, it does have one of the cooler logos (though I might have guessed it was some sort of ersatz "breakdancing" logo left over from Los Angeles 1984 at first).
rjm33 wrote:
pop_pop!_v2.2.1 wrote:https://www.olympic.org/trampolineNo trampoline sports? C'mon now, this is the summer games.
Umm, hopefully the trampoline logo guy (gal?) rotates before landing on its head? Or does gravity go the other way?