BD,
One of the major points I think we need to consider is that the IOC is
trying to reduce the number of sports in the competition. This is
because the ever-expanding number of sports has increased the
financial burden on the host country, somewhere in the region of
£20,000 per athlete. The IOC wishes to reduce the number of sports so
that developing countries can more easily put together an olympic bid,
and therefore hopefully kickstart a few developing economies along the
way.
Put that in the picture, and the desire to include Ultimate suddenly
becomes rather short-sighted and almost certainly doomed to fail.
Yes, it'd be kinda neat to have Ultimate in the olympics, but it's
never going to happen. And good thing too, if you ask me. In my
opinion, if it isn't a variation of running, jumping, or killing
something, then it doesn't belong in the olympics.
Warmest regards,
Dan
"I totally agree with what's been said here but here's my two pence on
this:
1) The events for the 2012 games had already been decided and
finalised. I
heard that that was done at the same meeting as the decision on where
the
2012 games were to take place
2) Ultimate has quite a way to go before it can even be considered as
an
Olympic sport. There was a list somewhere on either the the UKUA or
the
WFDF site on what Ultimate needs to achieve before the sport can even
consider tabling a bid for Olympic status, and from what I remember,
Ultimate only has fulfilled a few, NOT ALL of those things.
3) The whole "recognition" thing does indeed start with schools. The
more
people we can get into our schools and teaching Ultimate, the better.
However, it dosen't end there. I was at the UKUA conference at the
weekend,
and one of the most striking things that was said was that in the
majority
of cases, the University players either don't know of a team they can
join
once they leave Uni, or even worse, one dosen't exist in their area!
This
for me is also something that needs working on, otherwise, it'll be
all well
and good bringing the young players in, but if there's none of the
older
players around to bring them through, the sport would die very quickly
indeed."
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