Below is not good reading for those hoping to push orienteering into the olympics vis Ski O :
Dear skiO friends, the news for the upcoming students WC in ski orienteering is disturbing!
Please find below the situation regarding the 2018 WUC Ski Orienteering entries.
9 registered countries: SWE, JPN, FIN, EST, CZE, BLR, AUT, BUL KGZ
In 2016, 12 countries participated to this Championship!
I want to remind you, for the future development of this sport, it is of the utmost importance to stay in the program of the winter universe! For this to happen, there must be 5 successful world championships! It is alarming that countries such as Norway, Switzerland, Kazakhstan, Latvia, Lithuania, Romania have not participated! I want to remind our friends from Turkey that it is time to start participatе in competitions to believe they really want to develop ski orienteering! With respect Valentin Garkov!
O in Olympics?
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O in Olympics?
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Go orienteering in Lithuania......... best in the world:)
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Re: O in Olympis?
Considering that "pole sports", surfing and skateboarding are to now be included, also apparently "E-sports" such as fighting on screens ??? have a good shout to be included in the future I am not sure I would want my sport to be included in such a circus.
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Speaking as a foot orienteer I feel I have more in common with foot athletics than I do with ski orienteering.
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Re: O in Olympis?
johnrobinson wrote:Considering that "pole sports", surfing and skateboarding are to now be included, also apparently "E-sports" such as fighting on screens ??? have a good shout to be included in the future I am not sure I would want my sport to be included in such a circus.
I always laugh when people who are into a minority sport make fun of other minority sports, they're all legitimate sports with a legitimate claim at olympic status, they take a huge amount of skill to compete in so why not? Just because you don't like them doesn't mean others do.
e-sports is the next big thing in global competition. Give it 5/10/15 years and you'll be seeing e-sports headlines alongside football ones. The money involved in the business is gradually creeping up to silly levels, it's not going away anytime soon.
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The Olympics became a circus a long time ago, and the IOFs quest to get us there is destroying the sport.
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johnrobinson wrote:Considering that "pole sports", surfing and skateboarding are to now be included, also apparently "E-sports" such as fighting on screens ??? have a good shout to be included in the future I am not sure I would want my sport to be included in such a circus.
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mharky wrote:The Olympics became a circus a long time ago, and the IOFs quest to get us there is destroying the sport.
I agree wholeheartedly.
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Got confirmed as a Circus about 20 years ago when runners had to start jumping off walls onto matteresses in PWT in Austria.... developed into sprint and running round houses from that
Go orienteering in Lithuania......... best in the world:)
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Re: O in Olympics?
Shall we just go with this then?
http://orienteering.org/virtual-o-is-a- ... g-reality/
looks even better than catching features, not sure if it has kept the gorilla though.
http://orienteering.org/virtual-o-is-a- ... g-reality/
looks even better than catching features, not sure if it has kept the gorilla though.
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andy wrote:johnrobinson wrote:Considering that "pole sports", surfing and skateboarding are to now be included, also apparently "E-sports" such as fighting on screens ??? have a good shout to be included in the future I am not sure I would want my sport to be included in such a circus.
I always laugh when people who are into a minority sport make fun of other minority sports, they're all legitimate sports with a legitimate claim at olympic status, they take a huge amount of skill to compete in so why not? Just because you don't like them doesn't mean others do.
e-sports is the next big thing in global competition. Give it 5/10/15 years and you'll be seeing e-sports headlines alongside football ones. The money involved in the business is gradually creeping up to silly levels, it's not going away anytime soon.
I wasn't making fun of them, I realise that they involve a lot of skill and dedication. However our definition of a sport obviously differs from mine. Not every competitive skilled activity is a sport , otherwise Poker, Chess and Tiddlywinks would be pushing for a place in the olympics ( they probably are ). As for E-sports, very competitive, potentially lucrative but if you can do it from a chair is it sport?
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johnrobinson wrote:otherwise Poker, Chess and Tiddlywinks would be pushing for a place in the olympics ( they probably are ).
Chess certainly is, and (unlike orienteering) has actually applied for inclusion in the Summer Games in recent years. Ditto bridge. The IOF are yet to recognise international federations for poker and tiddlywinks...
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There is no difference between Tiddlywinks and Archery; arbitrary tests of fine-motor control, concentration, and coping with pressure.
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Yes, I did archery for several years when I was younger.
F1 driving is more physical, does that make it a sport?
F1 driving is more physical, does that make it a sport?
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