Olympics 2021: What you need to know about the 4 new sports

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For the Tokyo event, 4 new sports have been added – with athletes now competing for medals in surfing, skateboarding, sport climbing and karate. Tokyo2020 TokyoOlympics

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Olympic chiefs have chopped and changed the sporting programme in recent years to cater for a younger audience in a bid to keep the Games relevant.

Higher scores will be given to surfers who show innovation or push the boundaries with manoeuvres such as aerials or tail slide variations, while the variety of tricks, how seamlessly an athlete can incorporate them into a ride and the speed, power and flow of their surfing style will also factor into the judges' scoring.

Athletes will compete in three different disciplines – speed, bouldering and lead – with their ranking in each one multiplied together to determine where they place in the overall standings. Slovenia's six-time world champion Janja Garnbret and Britain's Shauna Coxsey will be among the medal favourites in the women's event, while Czech Republic's Adam Ondra and Japan's world champion Harada Kai are expected to feature prominently in the men's.It's only fitting that karate makes its Olympic Games debut in Tokyo, with Japan's centuries-old discipline becoming the third Olympic martial art after judo and taekwondo.

It was perhaps best explained by Japan Karate Association accredited instructor Somnath Palchowdhury."You may or may not use them in Kumite due to their complexity and fatal nature. Kata is the heritage of karate and one is not supposed to change in the original composition."

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