Subject: Int.Olympic.Commitee.
To all
National Authorities
(Copied to Recognised Associations for information).
Dear Colleagues
World Bowls received a newsletter today from C.M.S.B.,
of which World Bowls is a member, and an extract
from the newsletter headed “IOC Form” is attachment
for your perusal.
The paragraph contains information that may be of
interest to you regarding efforts being made to have
lawn bowling included as an Olympic sport..
Roger Black
for Gary Smith
Chief Executive
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IOC
Form:
It was announced, by the IOC,
the short list of the candidates for the
official program of the 2020 Olympic Games.
Huge disappointment for bowls sport that is
excluded from this list, which indicates the
sports that will be further analyzed for
inclusion in the Olympic program in 2020.
Once again, despite all efforts, the great
strength of bowls sport has not been
recognized. Although CMSB had promptly
complied with all requests received by the
IOC, on April 18th , 2011, which
had sent a questionnaire that wanted to know
the main changes since 2007.
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Despite the short time
available (less than two weeks), the
requested material had been sent on time.
This thanks to the collaboration of the
International Federations and particularly
with the valuable help of Vice President
Azema that, among other things, had created
an additional dossier on CMSB which
emphasized the 116 nations affiliated, the
rich and enviable competitive program and
the extensive geographical diffusion of the
bowls sport.
One thing is certain, even if
the bitterness is huge, bowls sport movement
will not give up. The race continues.
We must act in different directions fighting
for the unity of our movement and for the
recognition of all the bowls sport National
Federations from their respective Olympic
committees.
Only in this way our strength
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