Yesterday I posted a link to the Facebook-group “1,000,000 for Ultimate in the Olympics”. Not that I think it will happen anytime soon (or at all..), but Christian over at Ffindr! pretty much killed the hope for the near future (read “at least 10 years”). But it’s not like disagree with him, more the contrary. I think we’re bound to World Games for a long time, if we don’t get kicked out. As I see it, there are a number of World Games-sports that should be banned long before Ultimate. Billiards, Body Building, Boules, Bowling, Casting, Dancing, Life Saving, Roller Sports, Tug of War and Water Skiing? I’m laughing.
And then there’s the thing about doping.
Tommynomad from New Zeeland got a sane view on the olympic discussion over at Ultitalk:
Ultimate doesn’t need the Olympics to be great, international, and top-level: it already is, and growing. Maybe someday the IOC will come to us. I’m not holding my breath, but I hope when the day comes, we turn them and their anachronistic ways down flat.
I’m not holding my breath either. It’s their loss, I say.
By the way, No Breaks seems to have come to a halt. Too bad.
In the Swedish Ultimate community, there’s a new actor on the scene: Swediscsport (in Swedish). Daniel Engdahl from Nora (close to my hometown Örebro) is behind it. If he’s on a ultimate team, I guess he’s on either KFUM Örebro or Frövi. Don’t recognize him off the back of my hand.. They hope to become the new meeting point for people that are into disc sports, mainly Ultimate and Disc golf at the moment. We’ll see how that turns out. At the moment, they just got two members. Hope it grows beyond that.
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