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**gWhya5ct** · 09-01-2010, 11:43 AM

I doubt kendo would get the airtime/exposure, likely the only ones who would watch it are those that already do kendo.

As said in earlier threads, they've even been talking about removing fencing because A) it's too fast to see what happens on TV B) It got a very small audience and hence little commercial value.
Given how much more popular and understood fencing is, why on earth, short of the Koreans bribing everyone, would the IOC put kendo in the Olympics?.

09-01-2010, 11:43 AM	#40
gWhya5ct Join Date Oct 2005 Posts 482 Senior Member	I doubt kendo would get the airtime/exposure, likely the only ones who would watch it are those that already do kendo. As said in earlier threads, they've even been talking about removing fencing because A) it's too fast to see what happens on TV B) It got a very small audience and hence little commercial value. Given how much more popular and understood fencing is, why on earth, short of the Koreans bribing everyone, would the IOC put kendo in the Olympics?.
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