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France, Paris – The organizing committee of the Paris Olympics said Thursday it will not recommend adding baseball-softball and karate to the program of the 2024 Games, dealing a blow to Japan, which has been considered a medal favorite in the sports.
The Paris organizers said they will recommend three sports that were newly added to the 2020 Tokyo Games — skateboarding, sport climbing and surfing — to the International Olympic Committee in addition to breakdancing, which made its debut at the 2018 Youth Olympics in Buenos Aires.
The four additional sports come on top of the 28 sports already on the program.
Baseball, along with its sister discipline of softball, will return to the Olympic program for the first time in three games, while the Okinawa-born martial art of karate will make its debut next summer in Tokyo, where there are 33 sports on the program.
Source and full English article: The Mainichi
https://mainichi.jp/english/articles/20190222/p2g/00m/0sp/002000c
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