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jfb
Hot Prospect
United Kingdom
14 Posts |
 Posted - 17 Oct 2008 : 11:12:10
http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9501EFD61738F930A3575BC0A96E9C8B63&sec=&spon=&pagewanted=1Just found this. Not much actually about korfball but it made the headline..."Ah korfball, we remember you well". Josie
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Magnus
Star Player
United Kingdom
142 Posts |
Posted - 17 Oct 2008 : 11:48:48
LOL - The pigeon references!!Bit of a downer on Korf's chances though. Should give the writer the same treatment as the pigeons ;-) Smile, make 'em wonder what you've been upto!! |
Steve Barker
KorfballNet.com
USA
2717 Posts |
Posted - 17 Oct 2008 : 15:37:15
I saw an item on the BBc news about squash which said that the sport had no chance of getting accepted into the Olympic for the next two Olympic games as decision on these had already been made.That means some of us will have to live to a very old age to even have a chance of seeing Korfball in the Olympics. The Commonwealth games looked the more likely route but after the collapse of the recently planned Commonwealth Korfball Championships that now seems just as unilkely as possibility That said beach volleyball's recent addition makes clear that anything is possible if the media moneymen want it to be and Korfball could learn some useful lessons from the beach volleyball experience Or we maybe start killing some pidgeons during the games.............
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Gav
Korfball.com
United Kingdom
3700 Posts |
Posted - 17 Oct 2008 : 15:47:29
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2016_Summer_Olympics#Sportsquote:
The 2016 Summer Olympic programme is scheduled to feature 26 sports and a total of 39 disciplines. There are two open spots for sports and seven sports are bidding for inclusion in the 2016 programme. Baseball and softball, which were dropped from the programme in 2005, as well as karate, squash, golf, roller sports and rugby sevens will apply. A new system was approved for deciding which sports will be included, now a sport needs a simple majority rather than the two-thirds majority that was required before. Leaders of the seven sports will hold presentations in front of the IOC executive board in June 2009. The decision of which sports to include will be made at the 121st IOC Session in Copenhagen, the same session where the host city will be decided.
So korfball has not applied to be part of the 2016 Olympics. Perhaps this is because of the number of countries rule? Although the NYT article states that the required number of countries is 75 for men's sports and 40 for women's sports, so why would a mixed sport take the higher number and not the lower number?  -------
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McEnroe
First Team
United Kingdom
66 Posts |
Posted - 17 Oct 2008 : 16:58:49
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and Korfball could learn some useful lessons from the beach volleyball experience
Make the fit women wear really skimpy clothes? |
scubacoles
Star Player
Australia
224 Posts |
Posted - 22 Oct 2008 : 01:49:04
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The Commonwealth games looked the more likely route but after the collapse of the recently planned Commonwealth Korfball Championships that now seems just as unilkely as possibility
The qualifications required for entry in the Commonwealth Games were gravely underestimated when the Commonwealth Chmpionships concept was formed...
There was/isn't a chance that Korfball would be included in the Commonwealth Games for the forseeable future no matter what the success of that idea.
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Gav
Korfball.com
United Kingdom
3700 Posts |
Posted - 14 Nov 2008 : 11:41:35
Confirmation that korfball is not among the sports competing to be included in the 2016 Olympics.http://www.sportbusiness.com/news/168288/sports-seeking-2016-inclusion-meet-ioc -------
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Sam_S
World Class
676 Posts |
Posted - 14 Nov 2008 : 12:07:29
Personally I don't know if Korfball will ever make it into the Olympics---at least not in my lifetime! However, I think what we can achieve is for Korf to meet all the criteria for entry. That seems like a decent goal for me.--
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Steve Barker
KorfballNet.com
USA
2717 Posts |
Posted - 14 Nov 2008 : 14:34:15
Sadly the IOC seem to change to goal posts each week and the more countries we have playing Korfball the more they seem to demandWhat we need is a big pot of US dollars or it to be in the interests of some of the multi national companies Definately not in the lifetime of anyone reading this post sadly
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scubacoles
Star Player
Australia
224 Posts |
Posted - 16 Nov 2008 : 23:31:47
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What we need is a big pot of US dollars or it to be in the interests of some of the multi national companies
Or, a big pot of Chinese Yuan... that's more of a possibility, and as time progresses, the IOC will be paying a lot more heed to what the Chinese want.. after all there's an audience of 1 billion people that the Chinese bring to the table. Similarly with India..
Edited by - scubacoles on 18 Nov 2008 01:22:56
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Gav
Korfball.com
United Kingdom
3700 Posts |
Posted - 13 Aug 2009 : 13:16:23
2016 Olympic sports decision is today:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/olympic_games/8196956.stmObviously no korfball, but it gives some info on the process. -------
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Korfball in New York Times / Olympics
