“Cheerleading is a sport with growing popularity. It has a strong youth focus and we noted that,” said IOC sports director Kit McConnell.
The international cheer union (ICU) has more than 100 national federations and nearly 4.5 million registered athletes. …
BBC – Cheerleading and Muay Thai granted provisional recognition as Olympic sports
Most likely Cheer will be a demonstration sport at 2020 Tokyo.
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followed by tiddlywinks, mowing the lawn, and baking………
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Just because it’s being made a demonstration sport, doesn’t mean a whole lot. Dancesport (ie: ballroom) was a demonstration sport at the 1996 Olympics
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Why has there been no push to include tumbling and acro in the games?
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Rick, the pic you have with this article isn’t a cheer team, it’s a dance team.
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Oops. I linked to the BBC photo.
Other news stories link to American Football cheerleaders.
It’s fixed now. 🙂
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Why? There is no ground covered by cheer that isn’t covered better by Acro
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Piss off, we don’t want acro or tumbling, they will just take more spots away from artistic. We need to get trampolining removed and get those spots back.
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A “strong youth focus”?
If that’s what they’re looking for when evaluating sports for the Olympics why did they put Golf in?
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