You win gold for winning Kemps, not keeping your mask on. Haystacks & Daddy are past their best. I was only talking to Kent Walton last week & he said if wrestling ever comes back to the Olympics the winner would be one of Nagasaki, Catweasal, Sid Cooper, Rollerball Rocco or King Kong Mal Kirk. He also backed Klondyke Kate to take the "ladies" gold & Vik Faulkner & Bert Royal to take the Tag Team Gold
Pat Roach died during the filming of Auf Wierdersein Pet 2 a few years ago He had a weak heart in the end.
Baseball is also a huge sport in Japan so they may want to have it when the Olympics are there. It's one of those marmite sports. Personally I love it for some of the same reasons that I like cricket. Watching a ball game on a sunny afternoon with a beer and some junk food takes some beating.
Baseball won't be there for the sole reason that it isn't 'global' enough. Very little of Europe, Africa, South America or Oceania plays it. Only eastern Asia and North America plays it on a high level.
Not sure if that's really a valid reason not to have it, there's far less global sports than baseball already in the Olympics, double barrel skeet shooting for example!
Ah, well, the difference being that 'sport' (shooting is not a sport, lets be honest. Not any more anyways) is actually played in some form globally, whereas as I said before, only North America and eastern Asia really have any form of Baseball. We might as well put in Cricket and Rugby (Union, obviously). In all fairness, sports such as Football, Rugby, Cricket, Basketball and Tennis should not be in the Olympics. I think if every nations' sporting associations were asked, they'd choose shooting over baseball.
Most major nations in Europe have baseball leagues, as do Australia and New Zealand, it's no less global than a number of current Olympic sports. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_organized_baseball_leagues There's no reason not have it in other than it's pretty boring.
I don't think I explained properly. The reason that sports such as Football, Tennis and Basketball are in there are because a) they are globally played and b) they are also big sports globally. Baseball doesn't fulfil b). It might be played globally, but it isn't popular globally.
This has come up before, Hull apparently had one of the best teams in the UK National Baseball League, but I've never heard of it and I can't find a single person who ever saw a baseball game in Hull. Though countries are listed as having national leagues, the sport is actually less popular than topless darts.
