Badminton

[Kaw1000]

I'm watching the Olympics!! badminton 
 is on...dang, I used to love that game.
I'm going to go buy a set today!!

[Engine]

Olympic sport?

Really?

[Capt.Joe]

Nice! Whens table tennis on? 

[avionix]

Just a quick question.  Why are badminton and tabble tennis even Olympic sports?  I can understand swimming, track and field and even gymnastics.  The original Oympics were sports based upon warfare and who was the best.  Guess I am just someone that prefers things as they were designed.

[Kaw1000]

Nice! Whens table tennis on? 

I saw something on Ping pong...I'll let you know!!
Next up....Tiddlie Winks torney...can't wait to see that!!     j/K

[Ripsnort]

Just a quick question.  Why are badminton and tabble tennis even Olympic sports?  I can understand swimming, track and field and even gymnastics.  The original Oympics were sports based upon warfare and who was the best.  Guess I am just someone that prefers things as they were designed.

Watch it, you can put an eye out with a shuttle cock....

[Capt.Joe]

I saw something on Ping pong...I'll let you know!!
Next up....Tiddlie Winks torney...can't wait to see that!!     j/K

Sweeeeet thanks   

[Kaw1000]

Table tennis is on  MSNBC!!!!

[Octavius]

IOC approves these 'sports', and yet this is the last year baseball/softball will be played.   Badminton in the olympics, lolz.  It's a backyard sport... although ping pong doubles is just plain silly.

[trax1]

IOC approves these 'sports', and yet this is the last year baseball/softball will be played.

I hadn't heard that the IOC was getting rid of basketball, I can't understand why they would do this, it's a legitimate summer sport.  The only reason I can think of as to why the IOC would do this is because the U.S always dominates the sport ever since they started letting NBA players play on their home countries team.

[Octavius]

err, I said baseball.

[trax1]

err, I said baseball.

Ahh, indeed you did, lack of sleep must have made baseball look like basketball.

In that case I can understand getting rid of the baseball part of the Olympics, the best in the world for the men play for pro teams, and minor league teams.  I was watching part of a baseball game yesterday and was thinking about where they got players to play on their countries team.  If they're able to play on the Olympic team, they must not be all that good.

[Engine]

I'm a bit confused by that... So professional players (Yankees, Red Sox, etc...) are not permitted to play in the Olympics? If so, hy are professional basketball players like Kobe Bryant and Yao Ming permitted to play basketball?

[trax1]

Well they probably would let them play, but none are gonna leave their team in August for 2 weeks, plus the training together as a team to play on an Olympic team.

[Octavius]

As for baseball, I think only minor league players are able to play.  As for the major leagues, I'm not positive there are rules against them participating, but the season and the olympics overlap.  It may be a common sense management decision not to allow the majors to play.  Ben Sheets (pitcher for Milwaukee) started for the 2000 team.  I guess he was in the minors at the time.