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Surely this is a no brainer for the committee of the IOC, seven sports have put forward their case to be included in the olympics. Faced with the decision though how do they quantify a sport for it’s inclusion?

The sports are:

Rugby Sevens
Golf
Karate
Squash
Roller Sports
Softball
and Baseball

Surely this would be fairly easy to eliminate a few of these by number of countries that play the sport? Or active participants. It does leave the question though on how to qualify players, numbers and popularity of sports.
Rugby Sevens would be my choice due to my passion for rugby, however, it’s such a difficult sport to quantify is it recognised as a sport per se or an offshoot of rugby union? Does it have a list of members?

Certainly Squash is a much easier sport to quantify as is Golf and to a lesser extent Karate. As a spectacle would roller sports be any less interesting than the sevens. Certainly opinion must differ Golf in the olympics to me would be excessively boring but to some would be incredible.

For my two pennies though rugby for the win: ur7’s deadline for olympics