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Just read that Wrestling has been voted in to the 2020 and 2024 Olympics with Squash coming in 3rd behind Baseball/Softball ffs! What a f'in joke. Gutted that squash didn't win. After all the improvements that have been made to make the sport more spectator friendly and bearing in mind its global appeal and the fact I wanted to see it included makes this decision a sporting travesty.
It's such an awesome game to play and the level of athleticism, skill, endurance and dedication required to play at the highest level is massive. It's a sport which is very poorly funded in terms of sponsorship and prize money and I just think it was deserving of its first ever inclusion in thr Olympics.
What about marbles? (used to love that game, cant remember the rules mind just remember a circle) It's all Boules anyway.
Ah yes, marbles! I actually played in the World Championships in the late nineties though that won't sound quite so impressive after you read the link. If you want a random day out though it comes highly recomended. The Germans take it so seriously. We obviously got knocked out in the first round everytime and just carried on drinking. It's a looong day, but all good clean fun and piss taking. I used to barely remember the coach journey home to Croydon which is where I lived from '96 to 2001. The shite everyone is giving the place, I can only assume it's got worse since I left. I know the Blue Orchid is now closed which won't help.
Ah yes, marbles! I actually played in the World Championships in the late nineties though that won't sound quite so impressive after you read the link. If you want a random day out though it comes highly recomended. The Germans take it so seriously. We obviously got knocked out in the first round everytime and just carried on drinking. It's a looong day, but all good clean fun and piss taking. I used to barely remember the coach journey home to Croydon which is where I lived from '96 to 2001. The shite everyone is giving the place, I can only assume it's got worse since I left. I know the Blue Orchid is now closed which won't help.
It's played in a damn sight more countries than baseball and I'd bet by a load more people than have ever donned the comedy leotards of Greek Wrestling.
T20 is an great game, exciting and hugely popular wherever it is played.
‘morbid curiosity about where this is all going’
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Wrestling My Arse on 21:36 - Sep 9 with 2345 views
It's played in a damn sight more countries than baseball and I'd bet by a load more people than have ever donned the comedy leotards of Greek Wrestling.
T20 is an great game, exciting and hugely popular wherever it is played.
Given that cricket is played by the best part of 1.2 bn Indians I suspect its bigger than any other team sport in the world, full stop. Bigger population than the whole of Europe and latin America, which are the strongholds of football.
But if you want a sport that is widely spread outside one country, cricket's the only team sport I can think of played at top level in every continent outside Antarctica.
But the last thing it needs is the IOC getting their hands anywhere need it.
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Wrestling My Arse on 23:01 - Sep 9 with 2308 views
The Olympics died for me the day they removed tug of war.
There was a year when Cricket was in the Olympics. Only 2 teams entered - GB and France. The French team consisted entirely of people who worked in the British Embassy
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Wrestling My Arse on 12:11 - Sep 10 with 2109 views
I think that they should add the likes of jousting, gladiators and chariot racing to the Olympics. Real life and death stuff. None of this sprinting round a bloody track tanked up with performance enhanced substances. No fun in watching cheats.
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Luftwaffe didn't drop nearly enough on that place. 
