Snooker targets big break by potting place at Paris Games

SOFIA - Snooker as well as two other cue sports - carom billiards and pool - deserve to be part of the Paris 2024 Olympic program, the secretary general of the newly formed World Snooker Federation (WSF) said on Wednesday.

Snooker unsuccessfully bid for a place at the Tokyo 2020 Games, where baseball and softball, karate, sport climbing, surfing and skateboarding were added to the Olympic lineup.

"We hope that, with the support of the French federation and the French Olympic Committee, we'll find a way to bring billiard sports to the Olympics," World Snooker Federation chairman Maxime Cassis said in Bulgarian capital Sofia.