Why is squash not in the olympics

Squash players in the North East have lamented the news that the sport will once again fail to feature in the Olympic games. Breakdancing, or breaking as it will be known, will instead make its debut at the Paris games. The Olympic Games are changing. But sports can and do come back into the Olympic program.

Olympic Games. This article is more than 10 months old. Selection for the Olympics would have been a major shot in the arm not just financially, but would also have increased the viewership and pushed more people into taking to the sport. Even though squash has taken definitive steps towards innovation, youth engagement, ensuring environment sustainability and equality, it still has a few factors that repeatedly keep balking its efforts for greater honors. Squash on the other hand only recently had it first ever event which had a million dollars as the prize money.

The launch of the Squash TV a few years back was a step in the right direction, however, further efforts need to be made to improve the visibility of the sport among the masses. There still exists a huge number of people world over who consider squash to be a sub-set of tennis, so much so we get questions on whether squash can be played with a tennis racket.

Some think squash and racquetball are the same sport. Over the years, the sport has been primarily played in certain pockets of the world like Pakistan, Great Britain, France, Australia. Over the past few decades, Egypt has taken the sport by storm and dominates tournaments world wide.

There is a need to find top class players from more countries, which can only happen through grass root development of the sport in newer nations.

Squash has often been ranked as one of the healthiest sports in the world. It denies a whole new audience from getting introduced to the beautiful sport. While the door for making it to Paris is nearly shut, the WSF and national sporting bodies including US Squash should leave no stone unturned in the effort to seek qualification for Los Angeles I am the editor of Racket Sports World.

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