What are the 5 new sports for 2024 Olympics?
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Now that the Tokyo 2020 Olympics has wrapped up, the Land of the Rising Sun has passed the torch to La France! The City of Love is set to host the next summer Olympics in what will be called Paris 2024. Show  But with the hype came a lot of talks about which sports competitions are going to stay and leave. Granted, most sports in the Olympics are mainstays anyway. But did you know that certain participating sports also depend on the host country? In Tokyo 2020, the sports karate, baseball, and softball were included because these three are big in Japan and therefore attracted many Japanese viewers. However, they will be removed in Paris 2024 for the exact opposite reason: The French aren’t really interested in them. Also read: Did You See Evgeny Rylov Wear His Cat Mask in the Olympics? Paris 2024 added new sports eventsHowever, Olympics fans will be happy to know that skateboarding, which was newly included in Tokyo 2020, is here to stay for Paris 2024. Aside from skateboarding, Paris 2024 will add breakdancing (yes, it’s a sport), surfing, and sports climbing (also included in Tokyo 2020)! According to the official Paris 2024 website, “Paris 2024 submitted its proposal to the IOC to integrate four new sports that are closely associated with youth and reward creativity and athletic performance. These sports are breaking, sport climbing, skateboarding, surfing. All four are easy to take up and participants form communities that are very active on social media. Over the next five years, the inclusion of these events in the Olympic Games will help inspire millions of children to take up a sport.” It’s about time the Olympics included sports competitions that easily inspire the youth to tap their own potential in sports events that speak to their generation. We definitely welcome this new change and look forward to more sports games included in the future! Also read: Japan Created a Kimono for Every Nation at the Tokyo 2020 Olympics! Paris 2024 is set to begin on 26 Jul 2024 and end on 11 Aug 2024. To see the complete list of participating sports events, check out the official Paris 2024 website. All images credit to #Tokyo 2020 | Official Twitter Page About Author
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kiteboarding which will be part of sailing in 2024. Compared to the 2021 Tokyo Olympic sports, karate, baseball & softball have been dropped. List of Sports
Overall there has been a reduction in the total number of events (mostly through reducing boxing and weightlifting weight categories) and consequently a reduction in the number of athletes, compared to the Tokyo Olympics. Also, for the first time there will be 100% gender equality (in athlete quotas). Related Pages
What are the new sports in the 2024 Olympics?Paris 2024 submitted four sports to be included: breaking, sport climbing, skateboarding and surfing.
What are the 5 new sports for 2028 Olympics?The IOC has provisionally removed boxing, modern pentathlon, and weightlifting from the program of 28 "core" Olympic events, and has proposed to add skateboarding, sport climbing, and surfing — which were all included in the programs of the 2020 and 2024 Games as new events.
How many sports will be in the 2024 Olympics?All four sports were approved during the 134th IOC Session in Lausanne, Switzerland on 24 June 2019. The 2024 Summer Olympic program is scheduled to feature 32 sports encompassing 329 events, the first Summer Olympics since 1960 to have fewer events than the preceding edition.
Which sport is removed from the 2024 Olympics?Karate and Baseball drops out.
On the dark side, Baseball/softball and karate are dropping out of the next Olympic's program. Baseball event, who's fans were excited for its return as an Olympic sport at Tokyo after a 13-year and two-olympics absent, is removed again from the Olympics schedule for Paris 2024.
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