Rehearsing for their debut: Serbia’s 3×3 basketball squad training in Novi Sad in June for the Olympics
PARIS – While the Olympics emphasise their history, they also try to refresh the programme to broaden the appeal, include sports that are popular in host nations and to reflect changing attitudes.
The International Olympic Committee has said it wants to promote “youth-oriented sports” and make “gender equality a big focus for Tokyo”.
The Games will include six sports that were not on the programme in Rio as well as adding four fresh disciplines in existing sports and a string of mixed events in traditional sports.
Two of those incoming sports, baseball and softball, are hardly new to the Olympics. Baseball made its first appearance in 1904 in St. Louis, softball in 1996. Both were dropped in 2008,…
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