is field hockey a olympic sport?
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Yes. Australia is the Gold medallist of Athens 2004 Summer Olympic.
602179
Hockey is a great sport for juniors. It teaches them teamwork and fairplay. It is a little expensive, but the game pays out more than you spend.
849757
Ice Hockey. One of the fastest moving exciting sports.....
91871
Aye!\nhttp://www.torino2006.org/ENG/IDF/ATH/X01_IRL_1.html\n(The ENTIRE Irish Olympic team has only 4 members, certainly not enough to field a hockey team.  And they are all in downhill/crosscountry sports, 3 skiing and 1 skeleton.)\n\nhttp://www.olympic-council.ie/history.html
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Winter Olympics -- Skeleton ... I'm just amazed how they can fly down the track head first like that. Childhood sledding to the Nth degree.\n\nSummer Olympics -- Water Polo.\n\nNot that either sport is my favorite sport to watch that is part of the Olympics, but you can watch hockey and even skiiing and figure skating all the time and the same for swimming, basketball, baseball and even track and field. But other than when the Olympics are on can you see either skelton or water polo televised?
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To qualify as a sport in the Olympics, it would need to be a sport that is commonly done and competed in my so many of the Olympic countries. \nRollerskating isn't all that popular in most of the world, replaced mostly by roller-blading and other extreme sports. \nAfter reachinbg popularity, it must be voted on by the members of the Int'l Olympiv Committee.
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No, and as a matter of fact, it is believed that "The Wave" was started at a hockey game in Edmonton.  But I think the reason you don't see it at hockey games is because the arenas are so small that you'd be standing twice a minute.  And because hockey is a game of constant action, you don't want to be distracted that often.  Football and baseball have frequent breaks that allow fans the time to get it going... not hockey.
760760
It's the last of the true sports. / It's the best sport in the world. No matter who your team and what your fan-status.... most of us here can agree on 1 thing.... Hockey is, by far, the best sport on Earth.
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I think the Olympics should feature amateur athletes only...\n\nSome people will say.."Well China pays there athletes..or Russia does.."...but saying that takes away from what the Olympics are supposed to be about...Individuals with the drive to excel..Individuals who are not given every advantage..It is the spirit to win..\n\nThat is what made 1980 so special...Just college players who won through determination over professional players..\n\nWe will never see such inspiration again with NHL players on the ice...
384704
Hockey (A PUCK IS A BALL)
649437
Absolutely.  Haven't you seen the olympics?
15844
Absolutely, but not in Olympic play.\n\nAs a spectator sport, hockey could use some livenin' up, and fistfights do just that. However, it's also a legitimate sport, so the Olympics (which celebrate athletic ability and international goodwill and so forth) should continue to ban fights in Olympic hockey.
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no, the x-games are an international competition, and besides that every athlete in the olympics practices, competes, or trains basically every day. the x-games just happens to be one of the bigger events.
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While it may be played in many countries the main target areas for video games are the united states and northern asia (China , Japan, Korea, etc.) and there not enough players/fans, in those areas, to make the game profitable. Another point is that there is no large scale professional league in field hockey which makes it almost impossible for the sport to have a large market. I don't think there will ever be a field hockey game unless there is some sort of field hockey revolution that sweeps the world.
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The Olmpic Charter says:\n\n"To be included in the programme of the Olympic Games, an Olympic sport must conform to the following criteria:\n\n1.1 only sports widely practised by men in at least seventy-five countries and on four continents, and by women in at least forty countries and on three continents, may be included in the programme of the Games of the Olympiad
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i'll agree with you, soccer and tennis, though i like field hockey too... i guess u can say it's similar to soccer.
76221
War?  Don't you mean Olympics?