Navigating the Roadmap to Becoming an Olympic Sport

Nov 11, 2016

By Kelly Charles Crabb   On August 3, 2016, just two days before the start of the 2016 Olympic Games held in Rio de Janeiro, the International Olympic Committee (IOC) announced the addition of five sports to the lineup for the 2020 Tokyo Olympic Games—baseball and softball (considered together), karate, skateboarding, sports climbing and surfing.   The road to the Olympics for these five sports was a long one and the achievement represents hundreds of man hours and the expenditure of
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