LEADERS of the seven sports hoping to be included on the programme for the 2016 Olympics are in Lausanne tonight fine-tuning presentations to the International Olympic Committee that could prove vital in whether they make it or not.

  Baseball, golf, karate, roller sports, rugby, squash and softball officials will meet the 16-member

The case for golf, last played at the Olympics in 1904, will be presented by the International Golf Federation

 led by Professional Golfers Association executive Ty Votaw and Peter Dawson of the Royal & Ancient Golf

 GOLF and squash, who both want to be elected onto the Olympic programme for 2016, have today laid out

Royal & Ancient chief executive Peter Dawson promised that golf would find a way to ensure that the top

players, such as Tiger Woods, took part in the Olympics if golf was chosen.  

Dawson said: "The game's top administrators and top professional players are uniting behind Olympic golf

"Golf has so many credentials that line up with Olympism.  

"With roughly 60 million people from 120 countries playing, the game of golf is probably the biggest

    PRAGUE is to host the first-ever World Girls’ Youth Softball World Cup, an event aimed at boosting the sport's chances of being readmitted to the Olympic programme, it was announced tonight.  

mounted a strong campaign to be restored to the programme for the 2016 Games and, along with baseball, golf

  SEVEN sports made their case today for inclusion in the Olympics, competing for two spots on the programme for the 2016 Summer Games.

  Baseball, golf, karate, rugby, softball, roller sports and squash made hour-long, closed-door presentations

Baseball was followed by golf, which was represented by PGA executive Ty Votaw and Peter Dawson of the

Royal & Ancient Golf Club of St.

The golf delegation brought the trophy presented the last time the sport was played at the Olympics in

He said: "We would be able to promote golf in the Olympics and the Olympic movement across that platform

 JUNE 8 - FORMER United States Open champion Geoff Ogilvy has broken ranks to oppose golf being added

 He told today's issue of The Melbourne Sun-Herald:  "I don't think professional golf needs the Olympics

, nor does the Olympics need professional golf."  

Golf, which hasn't been an Olympic sport since 1904, is battling with rugby, squash, karate, softball

He told The Melbourne Sun-Herald: "Golf is becoming more and more a 'world sport' and being embraced

by many different countries and so I think the sport joining the Olympics would be great for golf and

  AUGUST 25 - EQUESTRIAN could be removed from the Games after being hit by another major doping controversy, Europe's top Olympics official has warned.

IOC at its Session in Singapore three years ago, and five other sports, including rugby sevens and golf

"Rugby sevens has been extremely active, and so has golf.  

 JULY 16 - GOLF'S major governing bodies stepped up their campaign to get the sport added to the Olympic programme in 2016 by naming former LPGA commissioner Ty Votaw to lead the effort.

Golf Association, PGA of America and Augusta National Golf Club, home of the Masters.  

He said: "The time is right for the world of golf to come together for the common good of the sport."

Golf has not been an Olympic sport since 1904, but a news conference that also featured PGA commissioner

In 2005, golf failed to win inclusion at the London Games.  

"Golf at the Olympics would be fantastic."  There could be one drawback, however.  

  AUGUST 31 - The Athletes' Village for the Beijing Paralympics opened today having been quickly converted to accommodate disabled athletes for the Games, which begin on Saturday.

passageways were also enlarged to facilitate the access of athletes and wheelchair- traction services by golf

  POKER is the latest group to launch a bid to be included in the Olympics, joining computer games and more traditional sports such as cricket and netball.

Seven sports - baseball, golf, karate, roller sports, rugby sevens, squash and softball - have been short-listed

  AN INCREDIBLE 108 world records have been broken since the Nottingham company Speedo launched its revolutionary new swimsuit but, as DAVID OWEN reports, the row is not a new one as it happened in cricket in the 1800s

So, some might argue, are graphite tennis racquets and golf club and ball designs that enable players

  MAY 1 - LONDON agencies Bell Pottinger and Fast Track have been appointed to lead Madrid's bid to host the 2016 Olympics, it was announced today.

include the Wimbledon Championships, the Paralympic World Cup, Volvo Round the World Yacht Race and PGA Golf

  CHERIE BLAIR, wife of the former Prime Minister, has joined over 600,000 people by offering her support to The Co-operative’s bid to have netball included in the Olympic Games.

The IOC will be able to choose from baseball, golf, karate, roller sports, rugby sevens, squash and softball

  SOFTBALL has turned down a proposal from baseball to submit a joint bid for their sports to regain their places in the 2016 Olympics, they said today.

The others are golf, karate, roller sports, rugby sevens and squash.  

  MIDDLESBROUGH manager Gareth Southgate has offered his support to the Premiership club's offer to host a pre-Games training camp for a team before the 2012 Olympics.

Work is progressing on a five-star hotel and golf resort on the site, a development featuring Europe’

s longest golf course which is set to open in 2009.  

  LORD TRIESMAN (pictured), the new chairman of the Football Association, has been twinned with UK Athletics tohelp him learn more about how sport is governed under a unique Sport England scheme, it was announced today.

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