Baseball was included in the Olympic program from 1992 while softball was included from 1996 but both were dropped after the Beijing 2008 Games. The 2016 games in Rio already feature a record 42 sport disciplines – rugby and golf are the newcomers this year – that make up more than 300 events.
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He further stated that the Tokyo 2020’s balanced proposal meets all the objectives of the Olympic Agenda 2020 and totality of the new games offers an ingenious combination of recognized and revolving events, popular with the youths in Japan and would accentuate the perceptions of the Tokyo Games. In 2020, the Tokyo Games will welcome new sport. This had been the case prior to 2008, the past year that baseball/softball was played at the Olympics. We now have five more reasons to look forward to the 2020 games. The sports, along with 18 new events, will be ready to go for the 2020 Olympics in Tokyo.
Today’s vote was the culmination of a two-year process that began with the unanimous approval of the IOC’s strategic roadmap in 2014. The number of athletes will be divided evenly among men and women, except for baseball and softball.
Kim, now ranked the No. 1 lead climber on the International Federation of Sport Climbing (IFSC) rankings, said she is excited to see the sport to be staged at the Olympics for the first time.
International Olympic Committee members raised concerns about being able to get the best baseball players as the Games – which run from July 24 to August 9 ¡ would interrupt the Major League Baseball season.
‘There is no guarantee that karate will remain in the Olympics for the 2024 Games, ‘ he said.
Softball Australia chief executive Chet Gray says the sport is very popular in Australia. Now there are about 25,000 active baseball and softball players in upwards of 300 clubs under the DBV umbrella.
Surfing Australia chair Beachley called it one of the biggest announcements in the history of a sport that has long had a laid-back image but is fiercely competitive.
“It’s outstanding news”, Down said as word filtered through on Wednesday.
“Winning a gold medal in the Olympics is the epitome of sports, as I see it”, Moore told The Huffington Post.
“As the official decision has been made now, the next stage for us as the organising committee is to fully engage with relevant people in the baseball community” to bring the top talents to the Tokyo Games, he said. “This is really exciting for us, and something we’ve been waiting for since the day they took the sport out of the Olympics”.
The report identified the challenge the International Olympic Committee faced to stay relevant to youth amid changing sport participation and consumption patterns and growing competition from mega-events such as the X Games. The IOC is expected to announce the 2024 host city in September 2017.
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John Coates, who heads the IOC’s Coordination Commission, said that skateboarding and bouldering is proposed to be held at Odaiba, using an “urban cluster concept” for the venue.
