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Date: August 3th, 2016
Media: Olympic Site
Theme: IOC APPROVES FIVE NEW SPORTS FOR OLYMPIC GAMES TOKYO 2020
You know the news about the next olympic? That's right, Tokyo2020! Will we have five new modalities, we already had 31. The International Olympic Committee (IOC) made this decision last year, before start Rio2016, during the 129th annual congress of the entity.
The new sports are: Surfing, skateboarding, baseball, climbing and karate.
“The recommendation to give Organising Committees the flexibility to propose new sports for their edition of the Games was intended to put even more focus on innovation, flexibility and youth in the development Olympic programme.”
The IOC used two methods to justify a prominent decision as sports without Olympic program: as they are extremely popular in Japan (baseball / softball and karate) and how they attract young people's attention (surfing, climbing and skateboarding).
*Softball is baseball played by womens*
“IOC President Thomas Bach said, “We want to take sport to the youth. With the many options that young people have, we cannot expect any more that they will come automatically to us. We have to go to them. Tokyo 2020’s balanced proposal fulfils all of the goals of the Olympic Agenda 2020 recommendation that allowed it. Taken together, the five sports are an innovative combination of established and emerging, youth-focused events that are popular in Japan and will add to the legacy of the Tokyo Games.””
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