Heyball may be included in the 2032 Brisbane Olympics

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Lenka announces that Heyball will officially be a part of the 2032 Olympics.

Edit: I may have misunderstood her announcement. I heard it as they were supporting the inclusion of Heyball (past-tense), but it may be that they were working together to promote the future inclusion of it. Maybe I heard what I wanted to hear.



 
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Bob Jewett said:
Can you show the text where she explains that? I don't see it in the post.
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She says it in her video. The first half is about the upcoming tournament in November. The second half says "[...] to support Heyball's inclusion into Brisbane's 2032 Olympics. Come and join me in Brisbane!"

Gareth Potts had mentioned it several months back to Stephen Hendry.

WHT (World Heyball Tour) has been sharing this video as well.
 
mattkenefick said:
She says it in her video. The first half is about the upcoming tournament in November. The second half says "[...] to support Heyball's inclusion into Brisbane's 2032 Olympics. Come and join me in Brisbane!"

Gareth Potts had mentioned it several months back to Stephen Hendry.

WHT (World Heyball Tour) has been sharing this video as well.
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they're trying to support the inclusion of cuesports every olympics? doesn't mean it gets included, it's lobbying
 
mattkenefick said:
She says it in her video. The first half is about the upcoming tournament in November. The second half says "[...] to support Heyball's inclusion into Brisbane's 2032 Olympics. Come and join me in Brisbane!"

Gareth Potts had mentioned it several months back to Stephen Hendry.

WHT (World Heyball Tour) has been sharing this video as well.
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There has been no announcement of that by anyone official, so far as I know. I suspect it is "hoping and wishing" on the part of heyball and heyball players.

Unless heyball has completely taken over the WCBS, heyball alone in the Olympics is not going to happen.
 
Bob Jewett said:
There has been no announcement of that by anyone official, so far as I know. I suspect it is "hoping and wishing" on the part of heyball and heyball players.

Unless heyball has completely taken over the WCBS, heyball alone in the Olympics is not going to happen.
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Oof, I may have misunderstood what she said.

It sounded to me like they were celebrating the inclusion of it to the Olympics, but I can see how it could also sound like they're getting together to support the idea of the inclusion.

Sorry about the false alarm if I was wrong.
 
mattkenefick said:
... Sorry about the false alarm if I was wrong.
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The way event announcement works is that a few years before the Games, a short list of possible added events is announced. There is some amount of mulling it over and maybe getting reactions and then the final list of new events -- if any -- is officially announced.

At one point cue sports were in the competition for selection for the 2024 Games in Paris. We lost out to breakdancing as the Paris Organizing Committee wanted a more youth-oriented selection. Breakdancing will not be in the 2028 Summer Games -- Los Angeles decided not to include it.

If the Brisbane Organizing Committee does choose cue sports, it would be astounding if only heyball were included. There is a lot of money behind heyball, but it is basically a one-country sport.
 
tim913 said:
Why play heyball instead of 8 ball. I know the pockets are different and the balls a different color, maybe size but what’s the attraction?
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At a BCA trade show, I had a very interesting discussion with someone who does a lot of business in China. If you take all the people who play cue sports -- pool, snooker, English 8-ball, pyramid, carom, and heyball -- most of them play heyball.

I hadn't really heard of heyball until about three years ago. I believe it is around 40 years old. The first championship was held in 2015, according to Wikipedia.
 
tim913 said:
Why play heyball instead of 8 ball. I know the pockets are different and the balls a different color, maybe size but what’s the attraction
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It was created to try and bring all the cuesports together. Originally had a ruleset close to English 8ball, American ball sizes, and snooker pockets and cloth. That's my understanding of the game, or why they push for it to be 'the game' to represent cue sports.
 
skogstokig said:
chinese have a tendency to inflate history for things they wanna sell. i've heard 30 years but seen zero evidence from the previous century
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I am not sure about specifically 8-ball being played on the tables, but I have found, and previously posted somewhere on this forum, pictures dating to the 80s of Chinese pool tables.
 
skogstokig said:
chinese have a tendency to inflate history for things they wanna sell. i've heard 30 years but seen zero evidence from the previous century
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From the 1991 Northern Ten Cities Billiards Invitational (北方十城市台球邀请赛), one of the first organized competitions that included Chinese 8 ball:

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kingwang said:
From the 1991 Northern Ten Cities Billiards Invitational (北方十城市台球邀请赛), one of the first organized competitions that included Chinese 8 ball: ....
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Presumably (but not certainly) it had been around for at least a few years before then, so 1985 is a reasonable start date. That looks like C8B and snooker.
 
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