Petition to bring billiards to 2024 Olympics

[Celophanewrap]

Fellas
pool is not a sport
it is a game

next ting you know bowling,horse shoes and dominoes will be in the olypics if pool gets in

i love pool.i have played for years but it doesn't belong in the olympics

Oh, I dunno, I think pool is as much a sport as NASCAR or Golf, and I think Bowling
was a demonstration sport a few years ago. Horse Shoes? probably at some point in
the past.
Maybe the movement should be to make Billiards (or Pool) an NCAA sport as a stepping
stone to the Olympics. It already sort of is. Is the College 9 ball event an NCAA
sanctioned event? There are scholarships for everything else, why not for a pool team?
Can you see Cal Tech, or MIT winning a National Athletic Sports Championship?

 

[Bob Jewett]

Wouldn't the US have to have an organization in place to coordinate the players, the drug tests and everything else the IOC imposes. The other issue would be, what kind of a team would USA have after drug testing.

All of that is already in place because the IOC recognizes the WCBS/WPA/BCA. Players who go to international, sanctioned events are subject to random testing, so far as I know.

 

[Bob Jewett]

Oh, I dunno, I think pool is as much a sport as NASCAR or Golf, and I think Bowling
was a demonstration sport a few years ago. Horse Shoes? probably at some point in
the past.
Maybe the movement should be to make Billiards (or Pool) an NCAA sport as a stepping
stone to the Olympics. It already sort of is. Is the College 9 ball event an NCAA
sanctioned event? There are scholarships for everything else, why not for a pool team?
Can you see Cal Tech, or MIT winning a National Athletic Sports Championship?

The NCAA likely has no interest in yet another sport that's not going to bring them money.

The collegiate championships are run by the Association of College Unions - International, which also organizes championships in other sports/games that the NCAA has no interest in. Here is the ACU-I website: https://www.acui.org/events/student-competitions

Oops. I just visited that website and it appears that the ACU-I organizes competitions in only three events: Billiards (9-ball), Clay Target Shooting, and Poetry Slam. In the past I think they also had bowling, frisbee, chess, bridge, ping pong(?), and several others. It looks like the trend of student unions to get out of the recreation business is nearing completion.

 

[Celophanewrap]

The NCAA likely has no interest in yet another sport that's not going to bring them money.

The collegiate championships are run by the Association of College Unions - International, which also organizes championships in other sports/games that the NCAA has no interest in. Here is the ACU-I website: https://www.acui.org/events/student-competitions

Oops. I just visited that website and it appears that the ACU-I organizes competitions in only three events: Billiards (9-ball), Clay Target Shooting, and Poetry Slam. In the past I think they also had bowling, frisbee, chess, bridge, ping pong(?), and several others. It looks like the trend of student unions to get out of the recreation business is nearing completion.

The NAIA Schools list Bowling among their sanctioned sports, I don't think it would be
a very long leap to pool, they also list Cheer and Competitive Dance among their
sanctioned sports. I would be inclined to think that pool may have a chance as an
NAIA sport.
Poetry Slam? c'mon, pool has to be in there somewhere

 

[Bob Jewett]

The NAIA Schools list Bowling among their sanctioned sports, I don't think it would be a very long leap to pool, they also list Cheer and Competitive Dance among their sanctioned sports. I would be inclined to think that pool may have a chance as an NAIA sport.
Poetry Slam? c'mon, pool has to be in there somewhere

One problem might be that if a college has signed up with the NCAA they may be forbidden to have any contact with the NAIA. Since the NAIA has its own national football championship (Go St. Francis Cougars!), I suspect the NCAA sees them as unwanted competition.

 

[iusedtoberich]

Pool , Billiards in 2005 or 6 was rated as the number one non Olympic sport for drug and alcohol abuse ………………………..
I believe it was like 70% of billiard or pool players who used drugs or abused alcohol or both .
Bowling ranked #2 and was way below pool by a large margin .

Now with 13 states where MJ is legal people are more open to smoking reefer.
So whats the chances that allot of professional pool players get stoned and cant or don't want to be drug tested ?


My point is finding a team that is straight and can get along and that can pass the drug and alcohol tests may not be as easy as it sounds ..


Cheers

Ha ha, probably 70% of olympic athletes are steroid users.