It literally makes no sense. It's a worldwide sport, the best bowlers come from everywhere, nearly every country knows what it is, or bowls recreationally. It's also inexpensive for the host country to set it up. Just use an existing high-end bowling center, you don't even need to build a new venue. It's a no-brainer. So what's the problem? No offense to water polo or team handball or whatever, but who cares about those? And THEY are Olympic sports! Yeesh.
@@peteg475One argument I’ve heard is that underdeveloped countries have basically no access to it. Then again, plenty of other sports in the Olympic (sailing and cycling come to mind) use very expensive equipment, so idk.
"Underdeveloped countries don't play it" is an argument that could apply to nearly every sport besides running and soccer. You see a lot of shotput, discus and water polo in these underdeveloped places? Developed countries dominate most of these sports anyway, like swimming and gymnastics. My guess is the bowling establishment won't grease the right palms at the IOC.
I think I saw you at enterprise park lanes, I was bowling in the youth tournament at the other side of the bowling alley. I qualified for jr gold and made it into the brackets, but the played someone way older than me and went home in the first bracket round. it’s ok bc it was my first tournament that had brackets so idk how it rlly works. But I had fun
We need this video with Packy (USA), Mitch (Canada), Belmo (Australia), Jasper Svensson (Sweden), Arturo Quintero (Mexico), Stu Williams (Great Britain).
Alex saying I want you to stand for the national anthem is insane and nostalgic. We can't even get that sung in school these days. That was actually respectful.
