All possible new Olympic sports.
… a decision due at the IOC Session in Buenos Aires in September 2013. The IOC Executive Board will add another to the mix in February when an existing Olympic sport gets cut. …
… While baseball-softball, karate and squash have the finance to promote their bids internationally, some of the smaller federations don’t have the money to invest in promoting their profiles globally. …
Around the Rings – IOC Warns Sports Bidding for 2020 Olympics Against Lavish Spending
I’d wager on recently merged baseball-softball getting back in. Then roller sports.
Personally, from that list, I’d vote for sport climbing. 
related:
• Skateboarding in the Olympics?
• The Summer Olympic Sports of the Future
• White pushing for Olympic skateboarding
(via sportsmyriad)
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why no tumbling double mini or acro?
All if those potential sports are far better than Golf which is already in for 2016. Golf isn’t even a sport – no athleticism required at all (and on that basis I’d like to see shooting/archery axed).
Not all that keen on Baseball. How many countrys outside USA play it anyway? It’ll just end up like Basketball and the USA will win it everytime – hardly a event that will unite the world.
@ggg
Of the 5 Olympics that baseball was an official sport, the US only one the gold medal once.
*won
Vacuuming. I’m waiting for vacuuming to get the nod. Then I’m in!
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