20/20 at Olympics in 2020???

[slugger]

20/20 cricket has be recogonised by the IOC and maybe considered for the 20/20 olympics..

http://blogs.cricinfo.com/surfer/archives/2007/12/olympic_cricket.php

 

[archie mac]

20/20 cricket has be recogonised by the IOC and maybe considered for the 20/20 olympics..

http://blogs.cricinfo.com/surfer/archives/2007/12/olympic_cricket.php

Well there is an idea I like

 

[skipper]

2020 in 2020?

That is too soon. They could have done it in 2200.

 

[Lillian Thomson]

Great Britain are the reigning Olympic Cricket Champions.

 

[archie mac]

Great Britain are the reigning Olympic Cricket Champions.

A club side from memory?

 

[Somerset]

2020 is a fair way off! Personally I don't agree with cricket at the Olympics - the Cricket World Cup is (supposedly) cricket's big event and should stay that way.

 

[Fiery]

Good idea imo. Would give the game a global audience

 

[sideshowtim]

Good idea imo. Would give the game a global audience

True, but it doesn't necesarilly mean much.

Handball is an olympic sport and outside the Eastern European nations, I don't think any nations care in the slightest about it.

It's always confused me as to what makes a sport eligible enough for the Olympics...Why are sports like Taekwondo and Shooting there every year when far, far, far, far more globally popular sports like cricket are barely considered?

 

[Fiery]

True, but it doesn't necesarilly mean much.

Handball is an olympic sport and outside the Eastern European nations, I don't think any nations care in the slightest about it.

It's always confused me as to what makes a sport eligible enough for the Olympics...Why are sports like Taekwondo and Shooting there every year when far, far, far, far more globally popular sports like cricket are barely considered?

Yeah but it's the only time I ever watch Handball. Cricket is "globally popular"? I think you'll find Shooting is fairly global.

 

[Magrat Garlick]

Handball is an olympic sport and outside the Eastern European nations, I don't think any nations care in the slightest about it.

Depends what you consider Eastern Europe, but the German and Spanish leagues occasionally have five-digit crowds. So do top international games. Larger than field hockey in Europe, at least.

Cricket was never considered before because it was openly professional, when the IOC tried up to the 1980s to maintain the charade that the Olympic sports were amateur.

 

[Lillian Thomson]

A club side from memory?

Correct. Only four countries entered and two pulled out leaving only Britain and France. The British team was a club team of barely minor county standard the French team were all Brits who had moved to France.

 

[andruid]

True, but it doesn't necesarilly mean much.

Handball is an olympic sport and outside the Eastern European nations, I don't think any nations care in the slightest about it.

It's always confused me as to what makes a sport eligible enough for the Olympics...Why are sports like Taekwondo and Shooting there every year when far, far, far, far more globally popular sports like cricket are barely considered?

I played handball in High School

 

[andruid]

Correct. Only four countries entered and two pulled out leaving only Britain and France. The British team was a club team of barely minor county standard the French team were all Brits who had moved to France.

No wonder it was abandoned

 

[Mister Wright]

If 20/20 makes it into the Olympics in 2020, then the 20/20 World Cup should be replaced by the Olympic event. Otherwise it would be overkill.

 

[NUFAN]

It's a good idea if they do similar to football/soccer where it's under 23s and your allowed 3 players over that age.

To make the contest even closer they could have that rule for the official Twenty20 or ODI Countries and the other countries could pick players of any age.

 

[Smudge]

I don't think cricket deserves to be in the Olympics - it's barely deviated from being a game for the Empire and its colonial outposts. It's as global as, or actually less than, rugby union and there's no way union should be there.

It is not the job of the Olympics to raise a sport's profle, it's the sport's ruling body's job.

 

[Athlai]

Reckon your giving the Olympics a bit too much credit their Volters. They have a load of tripe nowadays, may as well add some we like.

 

[Smudge]

You may as well add some you like, but the IOC sure as hell won't.

 

[Athlai]

You may as well add some you like, but the IOC sure as hell won't.

I don't see how sports like Softball, Taekwondo, Table Tennis, Handball, Judo and Volley Ball deserve to be there anymore than cricket.

 

[Smudge]

You don't see how volleyball, which has the most member countries for any sporting organisation in the world, deserves to be in the Olympics? Or tae kwon do, with more than 70 countries represented at a congress in South Africa?