Official Release
By Howard Harding

The bid by Squash to get onto the Olympic Games programme for 2016 took a step forward today (Friday) when a World Squash Federation delegation offered the credentials of the sport to the Olympic Programme Commission in Lausanne.

World's Top Players Pledge Support For Squash Olympic Bid
Official WSF Release
By Howard Harding

The world's leading players pledged their support for the World Squash Federation's bid for Squash to become an Olympic sport by signing a declaration that "An Olympic Gold Medal Would Be The Ultimate Prize In Squash".

Issued by Howard Harding
Official WSF Release

Document Provided 'Countdown to Copenhagen' Olympic press reception in Manchester:

Since 1986 the World Squash Federation has been working with the International Olympic Committee towards the target of Squash becoming an Olympic Sport.

Singapore - Reuters
By Ossian Shine

Squash has every reason to be part of the Olympic Games, Nicol David says, and the world number one plans to muster all her influence to ensure that outcome.

The International Olympic Committee will decide next October whether up to two new sports will be included in the 2016 Games and squash along with golf, rugby, karate, baseball, softball and rollersports are in full election mode.

By Alan Thatcher
Contributing Editor

A Cursory Warning from an International Rower
I wrote to a number of people last week for their views on squash's Olympic bid, including my friend Peter Bryttne, a Swedish rower who competed internationally and then fell in love with squash, becoming a more than half-decent professional based in Paris.

By James Poole

If I had a pound for every time I’ve heard someone say ‘Squash deserves to be in the Olympics’, then I would be a rich man.

My opinion is that squash does not ‘deserve’ to be in the Olympics. Being an Olympic sport is a privilege, not a right; and acceptance into the Olympic family only comes if you put the work in, build the relationships and annoy as few people as possible along the way.

If we look back to 2005, to the IOC session in Singapore – Squash was never realistically going to get into the 2012 games. The effort was there emotionally in the form of the great Jahangir Khan, but was executed poorly in the form of a promotional video straight out of the 90’s and a PowerPoint that would make a child cringe.

By Stephen Hufford
Racquet Sports Guide
www.about.com

The sport of squash, played by around 15 million people, in over 155 countries, on all five continents, is not yet an Olympic sport. It should be.

By Brent St. Germain
From Houma Today

Below is a sampling of links, background articles, commentary, coverage related to Squash's efforts to gain full status as an Olympic Sport. 

We also just added a NEW squash poll on the top right of each page.

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OLYMPIC BID

Positive responses have already been received from a number of IOC Members following the circulation of a letter from WSF Patron HRH Tunku Imran highlighting the appeal of Squash to the Olympic Games.

WSF President Jahangir Khan and Emeritus President Susie Simcock, who will attend the 2008 Olympic Games in Beijing on behalf of the WSF, will meet the IOC Sports Department on 21 August.

A WSF meeting with IOC President Jacques Rogge has also been confirmed for 13 November.

UK IOC Member Sir Craig Reedie, Vice President of the British Olympic Association, has accepted the WSF's invitation to attend the 2008 Men's & Women's World Opens in October in Manchester - where he will join fellow IOC Member Tunku Imran.

World Squash Federation
Official Release
May 2008 Instant Update
Received June 5, 2008


Following the IOC announcement that Squash has been included on the shortlist of sports under consideration for the 2016 Olympic Games, the WSF organised an Olympic Strategic Planning Session during last month's ManCom meeting schedule in Kuala Lumpur.

Source:  Inside The Games
June 3, 2008

James Willstrop, Britain's top squash player, today spoke out against his sport's exclusion from the 2012 London Olympics.