The first rule of scoring in racquetball is that players can only score when it is their serve. This means after every serve either a point will be scored or the serving team will switch. In order for it to be a legal serve, the player must have the ball bounce once before hitting it on the wall in front of the server. Is racquetball an olympic sport? Asked by: Agnes Bode.
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You've only seen one page. Check out this post which is one of the most popular of all time. No, racquetball is not an Olympics sport.
And that is unfortunate at many levels, which is what we discuss here. All sports lovers look forward to the summer Olympic games and the winter Olympics where they can watch the most talented athletes partaking in competitive, world-class and exceptional sport. For those people who have been watching the Olympics for decades, you will know immediately which are the most popular sports.
All kinds of athletics, track and field, gymnastics, swimming, equestrian, boxing, hockey and weight-lifting reign supreme, although more recently, football, basketball, volley ball, golf, rugby sevens and tennis have been included.
The IOC receive proposals via the Olympic Programme Commission for new sports and each proposal is evaluated very carefully before a decision is made. These are not the only considerations but they are a big part of the decision making.
If the sport is popular around the world, has had and will increase television exposure, and if it will generate excitement, sponsorship and a good audience, the sport is very likely to be considered. There are many Olympic purists who have always loved the athletics, swimming, gymnastics and martial arts, but have raised their eyes at sports like football, hockey or tennis being included.
These sports bring in a massive amount of viewers. Sure there are tons of football, hockey and tennis tournaments that are watched around the globe, but somehow, the Olympics are special. While various forms of racquetball are played worldwide, and there is an International Racquetball Federation, Racquetball is still most popular in America only. Racquetball is certainly growing in stature and popularity, but not quite enough for the Olympics.
It is a sport that is played in the USA and Canada too, by people of all ages and all genders, but it has somehow never reached the same popularity as has tennis. Saying that, the IOC will consider participation of a sport if the Olympics are held in the country where the sport is hugely popular. So if the summer Olympics are held in the USA, racquetball may well get the nod. And if the racquetball champions are well known around the world, then the sport has a bigger chance of being accepted into the Olympics.
From the amount of countries that field national teams, it looks to me that there is plenty of global interest in the sport. I'd join, but what does the USRA do for me as a recreational player?
I don't have any tournament abitions. I just love to play the game. With the amount of countries fielding national teams, you'd think the support is already there in the international community. And that's what the Olympics is about, right? International competition - not just US interest in a sport.
I mean, c'mon - is badminton really more popular than racquetball? I haven't played badminton since I was 10 in my best friend's backyard. One more thing Check out how many of those countries organisations are based in the USA!
Woody Clouse Eritrea!!!! C'mon, most of those countries don't have any courts let alone players in their nations. In europe for example, all the countries players are resident in their own country but due to lack of courts the game cannot expand. Squash is huge, courts everywhere, no Racquetball courts and Squash isn't in the Olympics either although it is in the Commonwealth games.
In Holland and England none in Scotland and for example their are just one or two clubs which have courts all the others are on USAF bases. Well, I didn't click on every link there. Consider me educated now. That brings up another question though - how can the IRF allow a country be a member if they don't even have a single court on their own soil?
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