This year’s Olympics has six new sports, the most new additions in a century
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Newcomers
Six new sports will be contested this year at the Tokyo Olympics - baseball, softball, karate, skateboarding, sport climbing, and surfing - the most since 1920, when 11 new sports were added to the mix.
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New rules
The six sports have been added to the Tokyo Olympics as part of the International Olympic Committee’s “Agenda 2020” reforms. The reforms mean host nations can ask for sports to be added to the competition.
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Here and gone
Agenda 2020 reforms also mean the six sports added this year might not show up at the 2024 Paris Games. Baseball, karate and softball will not make an appearance while surfing will be contested in Tahiti, French Polynesia.
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2024 additions
However, The Paris Games will add breakdancing for the first time ever. The aim is to help host countries’ most played sports gain exposure via the Olympics. For instance, the 2028 Los Angeles Olympics will see more local sports make a return, reopening the arena for baseball.
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‘Core sports’
The IOC has a list of sports - athletics, rowing, badminton, basketball, boxing, canoeing, cycling, equestrian, fencing, football, gymnastics, weightlifting, handball, hockey, judo, aquatics, modern pentathlon, taekwondo, tennis, table tennis, shooting, archery, triathlon, sailing and volleyball - that form the main sports that are almost always present at the event.