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Although the Chinese government and International Olympic Committee were trying strongly, but martial arts were not made as an official event in the 2008 Olympic Games or in the next. To make kung fu truly an official Olympic sport, there is still a long way to go." Secretary-General Huang Linghai Chinese Wu shu Association said.

At the beginning, everyone thought that 2008 is a good chance to add Chinese martial to Olympics. But exactly after Beijing served as host city for the 2008 Olympic Games, Roger quietly took over and started a new generation of the International Olympic Committee. As the saying goes, a new official applies strict measures. The first mission of Roger is to reduce events.

Each Olympic was increasing the number of both projects and attendants. While in 2005, the Olympic "weight loss program" bang start, Rogge led a group of Olympic Games experts conducted a detailed study to quantify the scale, the old Olympic softball, baseball, have been swept out other projects are constantly adjusting or merge them, so , a new project you want to join the Olympics, it becomes more difficult.

Although there is a largest number of people practicing kung fu (about 70 million people), but these people are still concentrated in relatively few countries. The IOC executive Oswald said in an interview that in fact, the popularity of martial arts throughout the world is not enough, martial arts entering into the Olympics still meet biggest obstacle.

He said: "The martial arts are integral parts of Chinese culture. IOC knows how important wushu means to china, but IOC has a strict standard on setting Olympic Games project. To be classified as a project Olympic project, at least popularity in 75 countries and regions is needed. Clearly wu shu is not well known to practice in most countries and regions¡±

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