http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport2/hi/olym...es/8196956.stm
TBH i think Rugby should be included as the compettition will be quite competative, however golf is just plain boring (IMO)and i would like to have seen ***ate to be included, mainly so that Iran can win medals as we have many good ***ate athletes, i don't think there is a future for softball or baseball seeing as no good players take the event seriously.
Golf is set to return to the Olympics after a 112-year absence in 2016, and rugby sevens will also be recommended to be part of that year's Olympics.
The International Olympic Committee's executive board voted to include both at its Berlin executive board meeting.
The recommendation must be rubber-stamped by a full meeting of the IOC congress in Copenhagen in October.
Softball, squash, baseball, karate and roller sports were all shortlisted but look to have missed out.
Golf was played at the Paris Games in 1900 and four years later in St Louis, but has never returned to the Olympic agenda.
One of the main issues has been whether top players will compete in the Olympics when they already have a full schedule, but superstar Tiger Woods indicated on Tuesday he would play.
Rugby union, which was last played at the 1924 Olympics in the full 15-a-side format, will return in the faster, short-format seven-a-side version for both men and women. It is already part of the Commonwealth Games.
The International Olympic Committee's executive board voted to include both at its Berlin executive board meeting.
The recommendation must be rubber-stamped by a full meeting of the IOC congress in Copenhagen in October.
Softball, squash, baseball, karate and roller sports were all shortlisted but look to have missed out.
Golf was played at the Paris Games in 1900 and four years later in St Louis, but has never returned to the Olympic agenda.
One of the main issues has been whether top players will compete in the Olympics when they already have a full schedule, but superstar Tiger Woods indicated on Tuesday he would play.
Rugby union, which was last played at the 1924 Olympics in the full 15-a-side format, will return in the faster, short-format seven-a-side version for both men and women. It is already part of the Commonwealth Games.
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