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Originally Posted by SanDiegoPadres19
Ugh right back.
If they couldn't afford it, that is something they should have thought about when they bid for the Olympics. **** this is stupid. And you totally took out of context what I was saying about Table Tennis. The poster before me said the reason baseball and softball was nixed was because we are so good at it. So if you look back, China has dominated pingpong so I said lets get rid of it for an example. On top of that, Who the hell cares about pingpong. 12-year-olds.
It shouldn't be about money. It should be about the games. Maybe if someone says that enough, others will get it.
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London can afford it otherwise the IOC couldn't and wouldn't have given the bid. The sports were cut afterwards and nobody knew for sure it was going to happen.
No, I didn't take it out of context, because the poster before didn't say that. Here's that entire post for people who don't want to scroll up.
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So just the 3 make up 8-9% of the world's population. What do those other 10 make up?
What's the percentage of the world that plays squash competitively?
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If you want to compare that way, we should have all of China's and India's sports at the Olympics, since they're 20% on their own.
I think a sport at the Olympics should have global appeal, or at least a tradition that is not proper to one country.
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Can you please point out where he said baseball was cut because America dominates it?
"Who the hell plays pingpong?" Apparently, lots of people.
http://www.olympic.org/uk/sports/pro...p?SportCode=TT
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Table tennis has become the world's largest participation sport, with 40 million competitive players worldwide and countless millions playing recreationally.
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Your relentless attacks on other sports in terms of "who the hell cares" is infantile. Try backing up some of your claims with facts, maybe someone will care.
Finally, it shouldn't be about the money? Everything is about money. And when you have a glaring inefficiency in the budget, you correct it. Baseball and softball added more cost than they made up in revenue, simple as that.