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Netball and the Olympic Movement : ウィキペディア英語版 | Netball and the Olympic Movement
Netball is an Olympic recognised sport, a status attained in 1995 after a twenty-year period of lobbying. It has never been played at the Summer Olympics, but with recognition a formal requirement for inclusion is met. The absence at the Olympic Games was seen by the netball community as a hindrance to the global growth of the game, depriving it of media attention and funding. Inclusion is hampered, because it is mainly played by women, and mostly in Commonwealth countries. When the sport gained recognition, it opened up sources of funds that the global netball community had not been able to access before, including the International Olympic Committee (IOC), national Olympic committees and sports organisations, and state and federal governments. ==Women's sport at the Olympics==
According to Dyer in 1982, exclusion of netball from the Summer Olympics is part of the historical pattern of the slow growth and gradual acceptance of women's sports. Women first competed in the 1900 Summer Olympics in only three sports: tennis, croquet and golf.〔 Women's cycling was excluded for many years despite having world championships organised by 1958.〔 Field hockey, a sport included for men as early as 1908, was not open to competition by women until 1980.〔 By the 1992 Summer Olympics in Barcelona, there were 159 medal events for men, but only 86 for women, and 12 for both men and women, and as late as 1996, 26 countries sent no women to the Olympics.〔 There were still sports that excluded women at the 2000 Summer Olympics, such as boxing, wrestling and baseball.〔 At the 2012 Summer Olympics, every country but Nauru did, and both men and women competed in 34 sports. At the 2012 Olympics, there were two sports for women only: synchronized swimming and rhythmic gymnastics.〔 That netball is also played mostly by women is seen as a drawback.〔 Netball does allow for mixed teams, but the Olympics did not include mixed sex team sports.〔 Rugby sevens and golf, primarily played by men, were chosen for inclusion in the 2016 Summer Olympics for both sexes ahead of netball. The issue of male over-representation in terms of total number of sports and athletes is structural. In the United Kingdom, for example, more male athletes than female ones receive financial support. Sports officials rationalise this uneven distribution by claiming that there are more opportunities for men to win at the highest level than there are for women.〔 The importance of being part of the Summer Olympics is illustrated by softball, and the benefits the sport derived from its inclusion. This included additional media coverage, especially during Olympic years.〔 Olympic recognition plays an important part in getting sponsorship for local competitions around the world and providing new opportunities for females.
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