{
  "id": 17025395,
  "title": "Sorry padel bores, the sport doesn’t deserve an Olympics spot yet",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/10/29/sorry-padel-bores-the-sport-doesnt-deserve-an-olympics-spot-yet",
  "topic": "culture",
  "section": "Culture",
  "published": "2026-10-29T07:00:00.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "City AM",
    "slug": "city-am",
    "url": "https://www.cityam.com/sorry-padel-bores-the-sport-doesnt-deserve-an-olympics-spot-yet/"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
  "account": null,
  "summary": "Padel may be increasingly ubiquitous but Olympics organisers are wise not to embrace every fashionable sport, says Ed Warner. Thwock! I’m just back from a week’s holiday in Cyprus. Apologies – had I predicted the extent of the power cuts caused by Storms Austen and Boelo (thought ex-Chelsea FC’s Todd when I first heard a [...]",
  "key_points": [],
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  "coverage": {
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  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}