Re: "Golf Not Ideal Olympic Sport"
From A Reader:
September 14, 2012 - I greet the latest round of initiatives to have squash included in the Olympics with an extended yawn.
The game doesn't televise well. Advertisers, and therefore NBC, don't like that, because the Olympics are all about money, period, full stop.
In America the people who support the game financially are primarily the parents of juniors who want their kids to be admitted into elite colleges, and rich people who play doubles , mostly in private clubs. Doubles is literally a different game with a completely different culture.
There would be five elite professionals who would make one of two Olympic teams ( men and women.) Hardly anybody actually knows those ten people personally.
The movers and shakers in American squash really don't give a tinker's dam one way or another about the Olympic games because it won't have any impact on their obtaining their own personal goals and objectives in the game.
So to quote Danny Devito's character Lawrence Garfield from the movie " Other People's Money" when making his final address to the stockholders of NEWCCo, "I have two words for that- WHO CARES?"
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