is fishing a sport in the olympics

Bloemen is the 2018 Olympic champion in the 10000m. Fish was just starting to get really serious about the sport during those Games in South Korea and remembers vividly watching what Bloemen did.

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With all this in mind and with my tongue firmly planted in my cheek I suggested on a couple of social media sites last week that the ice anglers of the world should unite and demand that ice fishing be declared an official sport of the Winter Olympics.

. Fishing is a worldwide sport. The Confederation whose goal is to promote all activities in touch with fishing from a sporting point of view says. Is it a coincidence that a month after we posted 5 Reasons Fishing Should Be In The 2020 Olympics that a 64-year old international fishing organization submitted an official request to get fishing in the 2020 Toyko games.

But what I do know is this. An international governing body for fishing applied for the sports inclusion in the 2020 Olympics but it was denied. If the International Olympic Committee considers shooting sports as a worthwhile Olympic program then perhaps fishing should get a second look.

Of course it should. I was shocked by the number of folks who responded in agreement with many offering side. There were a series of competitions in four separate events.

Lets make this an official sport of the Summer Olympics. At a series of competitions in August some 600 fisherman of whom 40 were from 5 countries other than France participated in 6 separate events. The Confederation Internationale de la Peche Sportive says accepting fishing as an.

The 2020 2021 Summer Olympics include 339 events in 33 different sports and it is absolutely unbelievable that bass fishing isnt one of them. Dont knowam not sure. Bass Fishing is NOT A SPORT.

Apparently you dont tournament bass fish. Speedskater Ted-Jan Bloemen the defending Olympic champion in the 10000-metre struggled to keep up and faded to finish in eighth place while teammate Graeme Fish finished a commendable sixth. There are an estimated 40 million anglers in the United States alone.

Its as much a sport as anything else in the Olympics. The olympics are suppose to be about skills. The seeds have been set for the International Olympic Committee to consider bass fishing as a competitive sport.

Angling was contested at 1900 Olympics in Paris. Now with that said bass fishing or predator fishingfrom a kayak is what the IOC is interested in as fishing from a Kayak does offer a higher level of skill and physical assertion to the sport of fishing. The association strives to have sport fishing added to the Pan-American Games and with cooperation from European countries the long-term goal is to make it an Olympic sport.

The international governing body for fishing has applied for angling to be part of the 2020 Tokyo Olympic Games. The Olympics in general are a giant commercial so while I think fly fishing is worthy as a sport the Olympic movement isnt anything Id want it to be associated with. The sport of fishing has made huge advancements in just the last few years as we work tirelessly towards IOC recognition and the people who are at the front of this fight.

Peple of the perch. FISHING SHOULD BE AN OLYMPIC SPORT RIFF Outdoors riffoutdoors July 27 2021 People have been going fishing since before recorded history and people in every corner of the globe still fish today. As much as I love hunting and fishing I dont view them as sports at least not in the sence as being a game that should be eligible for the olympics.

The Olympics bass fishing. A fishing event Angling was an unofficial event at 1900 Olympic Games in Paris. Golf by far closer to sport than fishing and I still call that a game almost a sport.

These events have generally not been classified as official although the IOC has never decided which events were Olympic and which were not. It was held in August in 1900 at the River Seine with about 600 fisherman of whom 40 were from five. I think all of these so called sports are an embarrassment to the Olympics IMO.

Canadian teammate and defending Olympic champion Ted-Jan. Fly fishing isnt really a sport and competitive fly fishing is silly. BEIJING - Canadas Graeme Fish was sixth in the mens long-track speedskatings 10000 metres at the Beijing Olympics on Friday.

This tournament is part of the process of fishing sanctioned international events Watson said. Surfing baseball and softball round out the five extra events in Tokyo so far. Golf table tennis and handball were recently added to the Olympics while skateboarding surfing and climbing will be included in the 2020 Games.

Quote rocknfish9001 Members 678. HttpbitlyFishyOlympics The Fish Olympics is a new sport that is quickly catching on. As much as skills come to play in fishing you still cant force the fish to bite so there is a whole lotta luck involved as well.

Fishing is one of our most ancient sports dating back 40000 years and what do you think the. We think not And although it is exciting news that The International Sport Fishing Confederation CIPS has submitted an official request to. It takes darn near no athletic ability to catch a bass.

There are organizations around the globe working in that direction which are being facilitated by the international tournaments.

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