British Parliamentarian Pushes To Have Squash Added to Olympic Program
Amid Brexit concerns and terror threats, one British Parliamentarian has taken it upon herself to get the sport of Squash into the Olympic Games. Hong Kong …
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Cricket Eyes Inclusion at 2024 Olympic Games
The sport of cricket is making a play for inclusion at the 2024 Olympic Games. The possibility of Cricket, already an Olympic recognized sport, to be staged at …
IOC Executive Board Approves Package of Five New Sports For Tokyo 2020
If the International Olympic Committee (IOC) membership gives its rubber stamp approval at the next session in Rio, Japan’s wildly popular sport of …
Billiards Chief Sets Aim For Sport’s Inclusion at 2024 Olympic Games
Despite a bad break that left his sport off of the shortlist for inclusion at the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games, the Chief of the World Confederation of Billiards …
Boules Sports Bids For Inclusion at the 2024 Olympic Games
The Bowls Sports World Confederation (CMSB) is campaigning on behalf of three disciplines – the French petanque, the Boule Lyonnaise and the Raffa, a …
LA 2024 Pledges To Sustain Spirit Of IOC’s Olympic Agenda 2020 Reforms
LA 2024 pledged Friday to sustain the spirit of fresh thinking and innovation of the International Olympic Committee’s (IOC) Agenda 2020 reforms by …
Five New Sports Recommended For Tokyo 2020
Baseball and softball, karate, roller sports, sport climbing and surfing have been recommended by the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Organizing Committee for inclusion in …
Japanese Decision Looms As Eight Sports Vie For Place At Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games
Eight Olympic-recognized sports made their cases for inclusion in the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games Friday as they made presentations to the organizing committee. …
Baseball, Bowling and Surfing Among 8 Tokyo 2020 Shortlisted Sports
Eight International Sport Federations (IF) have been shortlisted to participate in the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games, the organizing committee announced Monday. …
From Chess to American Football, Tokyo 2020 Receives 26 Applications For Olympic Program Inclusion
An astonishing 26 of the 35 recognized Olympic sports have seized the opportunity afforded by the International Olympic Committee’s (IOC) Agenda 2020 and …