Why did the I.O.C. discontinue Rugby,Cricket and Golf from the Olympics?
They didn't want the Aussies and Kiwis to win too much? or maybe they were so popular with the big crowds attending they thought oh well' we stuffed up ' everything else so lets drop the popular sports and bring in the sport of tiddly winks(medicrocity).
ANSWER
Rugby- Seemed to be allot of problems with poor participation as well as poor planning. In 1908