I love fly-casting but it is NOT an Olympic level sporting event - even if break dancing is for some reason. The bastardization of what qualifies as sport has been the disdain and mockery of the Olympics in recent years.
Oh hell yea! I like what you’re casting out. Historic precedent for world competition goes back a hundred years if not more. Let’s get it for an exhibition sport in 8 years.
I like your thinking here. Fly casting has the markers for Olympic competition. I worked for the USOC back in the day and nothing would make me happier than to see this added to the line up. First step is getting it on the list of demonstration sports. Count me in to help if I can.
Deeter, it goes back, go for gold! “This very simple description of an artificial fly for fishing in ancient Greece, perhaps the first artificial fly, or at least the first of which we have literary knowledge, is reported by Claudius Aelianus.
“He tells us that he had seen on the banks of the Astraeus, a river in Macedonia (then a Roman province), fishermen whipping the water with rods and lines six feet long, and using this imitation of an insect called Hippouros, resembling a tiny butterfly with very fragile wings, to catch fish whose ‘coat is spotted with colored dots’.”
If I could bring an ounce of the grace and sheer athletic joy Alysa Liu showed out there to my casting, there would truly be shortage of good days.
I love fly-casting but it is NOT an Olympic level sporting event - even if break dancing is for some reason. The bastardization of what qualifies as sport has been the disdain and mockery of the Olympics in recent years.
Oh hell yea! I like what you’re casting out. Historic precedent for world competition goes back a hundred years if not more. Let’s get it for an exhibition sport in 8 years.
I would watch that.
Gents,
I like your thinking here. Fly casting has the markers for Olympic competition. I worked for the USOC back in the day and nothing would make me happier than to see this added to the line up. First step is getting it on the list of demonstration sports. Count me in to help if I can.
Deeter, it goes back, go for gold! “This very simple description of an artificial fly for fishing in ancient Greece, perhaps the first artificial fly, or at least the first of which we have literary knowledge, is reported by Claudius Aelianus.
“He tells us that he had seen on the banks of the Astraeus, a river in Macedonia (then a Roman province), fishermen whipping the water with rods and lines six feet long, and using this imitation of an insect called Hippouros, resembling a tiny butterfly with very fragile wings, to catch fish whose ‘coat is spotted with colored dots’.”
If I could bring an ounce of the grace and sheer athletic joy Alysa Liu showed out there to my casting, there would truly be shortage of good days.