Quote Originally Posted by GeneChing View Post
This article is so misguided. First of all, there's a huge application process to become an Olympic sport that we are all painfully aware of now. Second, the full-contact part is slightly off, since wushu embraces sanshou and taolu. Third, I'm not sure we showed wushu to the world at all. I was watching and didn't see any coverage on NBC, Telemundo or MBC. The only coverage I saw was here on the web.
There no longer are "demonstration sports" and so wushu wasn't a demo sport

All China did was host a wushu event AFTER the olympics were over, in another venue, on the other side of Beijing.

How anyone got fooled into thinking they were going to the "olympics" boggles the mind

Furthermore, the "wushu" that was IOC accepted was taolu, San Shou/San Da did not qualify because China "forgot" to have competition for women until AFTER the process had already been rejected!