Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 exptools 1/6/84; site ihn5l.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!mhuxl!houxm!ihnp4!ihn5l!dlash From: dlash@ihn5l.UUCP (Dave Lash) Newsgroups: net.sport Subject: Re: Racquet Sports in the Olympics Message-ID: <112@ihn5l.UUCP> Date: Tue, 14-Aug-84 16:18:41 EDT Article-I.D.: ihn5l.112 Posted: Tue Aug 14 16:18:41 1984 Date-Received: Wed, 15-Aug-84 01:24:37 EDT References: <564@noscvax.UUCP> Distribution: net Organization: AT&T Bell Labs, Naperville, IL Lines: 18 The july issue of national racquetball had an artical about the struggle to get racquecatball accepted as an olympic sport. The artical points out that there is a rather lengthy process involved in getting any sport accepted to be an olympic event. There are various committes and associations that must approve of a sport before it may become an olymic event. A sport passes through three statuses (observer, provisional, and full). R-ball has 41 nations in the internatl amateur r-ball fed. 72 countries must play the sport for the 1988 olymipics, 90 for 1992. The artical also stated that r-ball has a ways to go before being accepted. Tenis, table-tennis, and softball all are farther in the development process than r-ball. dave lash ihnp4!ihn5l!dlash