I just read where baseball and softball are being eliminated for being
"too American". But, we can have things like Tandem Female Swan Diving
and in the winter things like Ski Jump Acrobatics and Bump Skiing
Ballet and all sorts of sillyass sports that are nothing but fads.

Makes me wonder what's behind that thinking.

"Steve L" <srl1215@comcast.net> wrote

>I just read where baseball and softball are being eliminated for being "too
>American". But, we can have things like Tandem Female Swan Diving and in
>the winter things like Ski Jump Acrobatics and Bump Skiing Ballet and all
>sorts of sillyass sports that are nothing but fads.
>
> Makes me wonder what's behind that thinking.

Quite simply, it's the difference between the U.S. and a handful of other
countries acting silly, versus the whole world doing so. If baseball is
hugely popular in four countries and the rest of the planet couldn't give a
toss. whereas greased-pig-catching is moderately popular in 40, then the
latter's a better olympic sport.

Either that, or you're not bribing enough (google "keirin bribe")


Geo

On Aug 20, 9:33*am, "Geo" <gRkEaMpOnVaEsCAPIT...@hotmail.com> wrote:
> "Steve L" <srl1...@comcast.net> wrote
>
> >I just read where baseball and softball are being eliminated for being "too
> >American". But, we can have things like Tandem Female Swan Diving and in
> >the winter things like Ski Jump Acrobatics and Bump Skiing Ballet and all
> >sorts of sillyass sports that are nothing but fads.
>
> > Makes me wonder what's behind that thinking.
>
> Quite simply, it's the difference between *the U.S. and a handful of other
> countries acting silly, versus the whole world doing so. If baseball is
> hugely popular in four countries and the rest of the planet couldn't givea
> toss. whereas greased-pig-catching is moderately popular in 40, then the
> latter's a better olympic sport.
>
> Either that, or you're not bribing enough (google "keirin bribe")
>
> Geo

Speaking of Olympics, the one thing really interesting so far was the
little "Hottie" javelin thrower from Paraguay. Leryn Franco, She is
absolutely gorgeous. Yahoo featured her, "front page yesterday". The
third world has its share of beauties. Remember the girl in Nat-Geo
with the beautifully intense eyes from the Afghan war with Russia?
That was one face in a billion.

Bob Nixon..