"Bill Vandertosh" wrote in message
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Tried this post on UK RAS and got zero replies.

That's because we did the subject to death just after London got the 2012
Olympics. For 2012 it's impossible because the sports are decided at least
7 years before the event. Beyond that it's not much easier because of the
rules on participation to get a sport included:

"only sports widely practised by men in at least seventy five countries and
on four continents, and by women in at least forty countries and on three
continents, may be included in the programme of the Games of the Olympiad;"

http://multimedia.olympic.org/pdf/en_report_122.pdf section 47.

Besides, beach volleyball is more interesting to watch

Stephen