Netball

[eagle]

As you all recall, Laura Hale was single-mindedly determined to establish Netball as an Olympic Sport. Of course, it never has been, and a recent decision by the International Olympic Committee, it will not be in 2028.

Sports like Lacrosse, Squash and Crickett have made the cut, but alas, Netball is once again out of consideration. Perhaps sports administrators and sports enthusiasts from around the globe can see what Laura Hale and Wikipedia cannot.

With an advocate like Laura Hale in your corner, who needs enemies?

[Beeblebrox]

I know far more people who enjoy pickleball (T-H-L), which I find fairly incomprehensible, but it is a popular indoor winter sport around here.

[tarantino]

A lot of retired pro athletes are getting in to pickleball.

Flag football, squash, lacrosse and cricket will be in the 2028 olympics,

[Midsize Jake]

To be fair, it's more popular in Australia than just about any place in the world, so there's a decent chance it might just barely make it into the 2032 Games in Brisbane, Australia — though of course that's assuming the governments of the world haven't finally wised up by then and thrown the entire membership of the International Olympic Committee in prison on fraud and racketeering charges.

It didn't really have much of a chance for the 2028 Olympics in Los Angeles because the NFL wanted Flag Football instead, and if it's in the USA, what the NFL wants, the NFL gets. In this context at least, it probably helps to think of the NFL as Laura Hale on more steroids than have ever been produced in world history by all steroid manufacturers combined.

Surf Lifesaving also got rejected, which I felt was disappointing because those folks really do deserve more recognition, especially ever since Baywatch got cancelled.

[Ming]

As you all recall, Laura Hale was single-mindedly determined to establish Netball as an Olympic Sport. Of course, it never has been, and a recent decision by the International Olympic Committee, it will not be in 2028.

Sports like Lacrosse, Squash and Crickett have made the cut, but alas, Netball is once again out of consideration. Perhaps sports administrators and sports enthusiasts from around the globe can see what Laura Hale and Wikipedia cannot.

With an advocate like Laura Hale in your corner, who needs enemies?

Ming has to wonder about lacrosse: it is so completely owned by the US Northeast (with NY and Maryland being the two centers: it's the only sport in which Johns Hopkins is Division I, and they are a powerhouse in it) that it's hard to imagine any other country not being clobbered.