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Maryanne Gabbani wrote:

> The IOC has been lobbying to get rid of equestrian competition in the 
> Olympics for quite a while, so I suspect that the FEI agenda (they got 
> some major financial backing from the cash prizes offered by the UAE 
> in endurance for a while) and the IOC agenda were not in synch.  AHHH, 
> politics and finance.  Who needs soap operas when the world is out there?
>
> Maryanne
> cynically in Cairo

The new head of the IOC has stated that there are too many sports in the 
Olympics and they are in the process of cutting sports out - not adding 
new ones. I believe that both baseball and softball - both with much 
bigger appeal than any equestrian event have been cut for the 2008 
games. I suspect getting a new equestrian sport into the Olympics will 
be near on to impossible. As long as they leave womens beach volleyball 
alone that would be good.

Truman


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"Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm 
not sure about the former."  - Albert Einstein


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