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Number of countries with known footbag players.
Hey, I found this on some waterskiing website. Gives some insight about what it takes to make a sport Olympic:
A sport wanting to become an Olympic sport should at least be recognized by the International Olympic Committee (IOC) for several years, and it also must reach certain standards of activity, competition and membership around the world, and then pass through a provisional status for about two years.
It is up to the Organizer of an Olympic Games to propose the IOC to insert one or more new sports into the program. In our case, the Organizing Committee for the Olympic Games - Athens 2004 (ATHOC) has officially proposed to the IOC to insert waterskiing. ATHOC chose waterski out of two sports (waterskiing and fin swimming) proposed to them by the Hellenic Olympic Committee (HOC). The HOC made their decision in September, 1998. ATHOC sent their official proposal to the IOC in June 1999, delay due to the internal scandals in the IOC.
From here on two further steps have to be taken: the Coordination Committee of the IOC for the Olympic Games in Athens and the IOC EB must approve the proposal of the ATHOC. Their decision then will be ratified by the IOC plenary session before coming effective. This is expected to happen between the September Sydney Olympics and December of 2000.
Of course, all this does not come by itself. Since its creation in 1947, the International Water Ski Federation (IWSF) has promoted and developed waterskiing throughout the World. We were even the Olympic demonstration sport in Munchen! Since 1997 we have dedicated ourselves to the promotion of waterskiing at the Olympic level. We set up a waterski demonstration in Seville (June 1998) to show waterskiing to all the presidents of the National Olympic Committees and the IOC members. Waterski is a very attractive, athletic and spectacular sport, but we found out that before 1997, it was not known very well. The IWSF produced brochures, videos and facts and figure booklets to educate people what waterski is all about. Our president and secretary general attended all the important IOC meetings to make sure that there are no excuses to forget about waterski.
The funds to pay for all these campaigns have been raised within the waterski family, also using on-line gift possibilities. We still need to collect funds, to finish the last two stages of our Olympic quest.
However, promotion alone is not enough, the entire waterskiing family (over 89 federations and more than 50,000,000 skiers around the world) has made petitions and written support letters to convince the IOC that we really should become Olympic. It is important that the IOC sees that waterski is a popular sport all over the world. In fact, we are still collecting signatures.
A sport wanting to become an Olympic sport should at least be recognized by the International Olympic Committee (IOC) for several years, and it also must reach certain standards of activity, competition and membership around the world, and then pass through a provisional status for about two years.
It is up to the Organizer of an Olympic Games to propose the IOC to insert one or more new sports into the program. In our case, the Organizing Committee for the Olympic Games - Athens 2004 (ATHOC) has officially proposed to the IOC to insert waterskiing. ATHOC chose waterski out of two sports (waterskiing and fin swimming) proposed to them by the Hellenic Olympic Committee (HOC). The HOC made their decision in September, 1998. ATHOC sent their official proposal to the IOC in June 1999, delay due to the internal scandals in the IOC.
From here on two further steps have to be taken: the Coordination Committee of the IOC for the Olympic Games in Athens and the IOC EB must approve the proposal of the ATHOC. Their decision then will be ratified by the IOC plenary session before coming effective. This is expected to happen between the September Sydney Olympics and December of 2000.
Of course, all this does not come by itself. Since its creation in 1947, the International Water Ski Federation (IWSF) has promoted and developed waterskiing throughout the World. We were even the Olympic demonstration sport in Munchen! Since 1997 we have dedicated ourselves to the promotion of waterskiing at the Olympic level. We set up a waterski demonstration in Seville (June 1998) to show waterskiing to all the presidents of the National Olympic Committees and the IOC members. Waterski is a very attractive, athletic and spectacular sport, but we found out that before 1997, it was not known very well. The IWSF produced brochures, videos and facts and figure booklets to educate people what waterski is all about. Our president and secretary general attended all the important IOC meetings to make sure that there are no excuses to forget about waterski.
The funds to pay for all these campaigns have been raised within the waterski family, also using on-line gift possibilities. We still need to collect funds, to finish the last two stages of our Olympic quest.
However, promotion alone is not enough, the entire waterskiing family (over 89 federations and more than 50,000,000 skiers around the world) has made petitions and written support letters to convince the IOC that we really should become Olympic. It is important that the IOC sees that waterski is a popular sport all over the world. In fact, we are still collecting signatures.
The two Swedish brothers Hellberg plays decent net footbag. The older one Hakan Hellberg actually won the Intermediate Single Net Tournament at the Euros 2004 in Copenhagen. How about that!
http://www.footbagdenmark.dk/euros/results.html
http://www.footbagdenmark.dk/euros/results.html
Mads Hole