In time the Olympic golf competition will be right up there with the other major events in golf and that will be good for the game.” Jacques Rogge, the IOC president, said that winning an Olympic medal would become one of the main ambitions for top golfers. "The same questions were raised time and again when tennis and ice-hockey were introduced ... Ask tennis players like Rafael Nadal and Roger Federer, ask NHL [ice hockey] players, ask the NBA basketball players. They all want to go to the Games." A full meeting of the IOC congress in September backed the inclusion of golf and rugby sevens, but rejected sports including squash, baseball and karate. Full Article at Times Online