Baseball and karate recommended to be included in the Tokyo Olympics program

The Executive Committee of the International Olympic Committee (IOC) has recommended the inclusion of five new disciplines - baseball, karate, skateboarding, sport climbing and surfing - in the Tokyo 2020 Summer Olympics. This is reported by Reuters, citing an unnamed informed source.

For the inclusion of new disciplines in the program of the Olympic Games, according to the source of the agency, the participants of the meeting of the IOC Executive Committee in Lausanne spoke. This decision is to be approved at the IOC session, which will be held in August 2016 in Rio de Janeiro.

• According to the current rules of the IOC, a country that hosts the Olympic Games has the right to include popular sports in its program. This practice allows you to attract new sponsors and increase the ratings of TV broadcasts.
• In 2008, baseball was included in the program of the Beijing Olympics. There was no baseball tournament at the next summer Games.