In a month where two showpiece squash tournaments held in London have worn their Olympic aspirations on their sleeves, a new article on the BBC Sport website sings squash's praises as a 2016 hopeful.
The blog written by Matt Slater, who is responsible for Olympics-related content, weighs up the contenders for October's vote in Copenhagen before concluding that squash has the greatest claim for Olympic status ...
Slater was supportive of the bid in a previous article from 2007.
Welcome coverage of our sport's bid just at the right time.
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Friday 27 March 2009
BBC article singles out squash as most worthy
Posted by squashblogger at 14:18
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There iis no way that golf should be in there!!!
ReplyDeleteBefore events like this i always have a felling that this time it is going to happen. But as it appears time after time it takes more than just a crowd of fans that want their sport in Olympics.
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