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Re: [RC] The Olympics - Truman Prevatt

Maryanne Gabbani wrote:



The IOC has been lobbying to get rid of equestrian competition in the Olympics for quite a while, so I suspect that the FEI agenda (they got some major financial backing from the cash prizes offered by the UAE in endurance for a while) and the IOC agenda were not in synch. AHHH, politics and finance. Who needs soap operas when the world is out there?

Maryanne
cynically in Cairo

The new head of the IOC has stated that there are too many sports in the Olympics and they are in the process of cutting sports out - not adding new ones. I believe that both baseball and softball - both with much bigger appeal than any equestrian event have been cut for the 2008 games. I suspect getting a new equestrian sport into the Olympics will be near on to impossible. As long as they leave womens beach volleyball alone that would be good.


Truman


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"Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former." - Albert Einstein


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