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London 2012 Summer Olympics |OT2|
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Soyongdori
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No it's not. Baseball is played by 16 nations as of 2009 WBC, and in 2013, total of 28 countries will play baseball.
Baseball is huge worldwide, including American continents, European, and as far as Far East Asia.
The number easily exceeds popularity of cricket.
vas_a_morir
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chill
For Olympics, it's not about audience, it's about countries and regions. You might as well have Wushu, Dragon Boat Racing, Cheling, etc. since it's popular in China and East/Southeast Asia.
ConfusingJazz
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I think the IOC's excuse was it was expensive and we didn't bring over the MLB/NPB players.
I think its because the IOC has a lot of European Sports Bureaucrats and are not from the Americas or East Asia.
If I saw this coming down the road towards me I'd run like hell.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XDAaTzccCik
Fuck this Olympics. Other boxers should not even be competing right now over this horseshit. Dropped 5 times and win a round? Go fuck yourself IOC letting these fuckers do this. IOC is such a joke, suspend the badminton players because Rogge was there but not address this right away? FUCK YOU.
Jezbollah
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Yeah it wouldnt be a London 2012 OT without the cricket ignorance thing.
(2nd biggest sport in the world behind Football, btw
Right I guess they have some clubs or stuff but the british Basketball team doesn't evn qualify for most events right?
davidsaurus
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CrunchinJelly
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It's not the IOC's call, games are refereed by the governing bodies of the sports.
Soyongdori
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Russia begs to differ.
Baseball is probably played at a high level in more contries (which is really what matters in the Oympics) but Cricket is more popular, there are a lot of people in India.
Neither is Cricket really...
davidsaurus
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Europe makes it sounds like it's big in more than one country.
My wife and brother-in-law's favorite game when they were kids was Gay or European?
Well, i did not mean that. But with rockstar status, i mean they get all the gurls.
Like, if your a swimmer in college or high school, you can walk around, and people will say hi to you everywhere.
In china, nobody will now you, you will earn nothing, and you will live your days in training facilities with other training teenagers. In the weekends, you will be free to have fun, but basically, no one will now you and you will only have friends from your training group etc etc.
Sports in College is huge, and all around you, people will think you are super awesome.
fizzelopeguss
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it's the new "haters gonna hate" or "u mad". lamest fucking tool in forum warfare, you're basically submitting to the other side that you're out of ideas and have nothing to combat them with.
Woman's basketball is the ugliest sport in the Olympics. Women's basketball is played at not a high level compared to the men. Every other sport you don't feel like they are far worse than the men but that is the case with basketball. I get bored with olympic basketball even if I watch it normally. The World Baseball Classic I enjoyed more than any basketball tournament.
Wafflecakes
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If I saw this coming down the road towards me I'd run like hell.
Nightmare fuel.
That really is terrifying.
Soyongdori
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Number of population is irrelevant. It's still considered one country playing. It's the number of countries that participate in the sport.
Cricket isn't big in more than one country in Europe.
Isn't that what I just said?
And you are ignorant if you think the IOC doesn't have their hands in stuff like this. The fact that Rogge was watching the badminton is a big reason why the punishment was big. The IOC has power over what is going on at these games.
Lol nope. Unless you're the QB in football or the star PG/whatever in basketball, no one knows you.
Soyongdori
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Ok I stand corrected.
The last cricket world cup had 104 entrants and 14 participants from Europe, Asia, Africa and North America. I have no problem with baseball being an Olympic sport but I would also like to see cricket become an Olympic sport. I think the sport has the global reach and popularity, the biggest stumbling block is the tournament commitments of the international players.
Ugh, GB is letting this go! They were SOOO close!
What? Maybe in the rest of the world, but in the US woman's basketball is played at a pretty high level.
What? Maybe in the rest of the world, but in the US woman's basketball is played at a pretty high level.
These were the countries taking part in a 2009 qualifier for associate members in the 2011 WC
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2009_ICC_World_Cup_Qualifier#Teams
These were the teams that participated in the 2011 WC
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2011_Cricket_World_Cup#List_of_qualified_teams
The Caribbean nations Like Trinidad and Tobago, Jamaica etc. compete under the West Indian banner. Number wise it's close and population wise no contest because of South Asia ( where it is the number one game)
Baseball is popular in Denmark, picking up steam in Italy and Germany as well.
It's funny I thought the exact opposite when I watched the basketball game the other day. To me women's footbal just looks terrible, and in Basketball they actually looked competent.
I guess it's just that you're used to men's Basketball and I'm used to men's football.
I would think it would have baseball beat there too. It does have its own world cup though, with like 20 countries
This very well be it.
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