The IOC supported the expansion of the Olympic program.
At the Olympic games in 2020 will be significant contributions of members of the International Olympic Committee, at the 129th session supported the inclusion of five new sports – baseball/softball, karate, surfing, climbing and skateboarding.
The inclusion of these disciplines will add to the Games programme in Tokyo 18 events, and medals will argue 474 sportsman. Newcomers to the Olympic movement will not affect the existing Olympic program, consisting of 28 sports. For the following Olympiads the inclusion of five new subjects will not be mandatory.
“Games in Tokyo can become one of the most unique in the history of the Olympics due to these five new sports,” said President of the organizing Committee of the 2020 Olympics in Tokyo Yoshiro Mori.
Of the five new disciplines only baseball were previously included in the program of Olympic games. For karate, surfing, climbing and skateboarding Games in Tokyo will be the first.
We will remind, on Friday in Rio de Janeiro kicks off the 31st summer Olympiad. Over ten thousand of the best athletes in the world for 16 days will compete for 306 sets of medals. Ukraine at the Olympic games will present the 206 athletes in 27 sports.
