SINGAPORE: There are five new sports at the 2020 Olympics that started in Tokyo on Jul 23.
Others such as Taekwondo and badminton, with less worldwide appeal and famous athletes, had to work long and hard to get the nod from the International Olympic Committee which operates the games. The country is ranked highly in skateboarding, according to World Skate, the international body for roller sports.
The Olympic Agenda 2020, adopted by the IOC in 2014, allows for more flexibility in the process, however, with hosts invited to submit proposals though the traditional campaigning path, where international federations lobby the IOC for inclusion and then persuade its members to vote in their favour, remain open.
“We want to take sport to the youth,” said Bach in 2016. “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.”
Baseball was in the 2008 Beijing Olympics I attended the matches and even have a game ball
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