After two years of vetting extreme sports for the Olympics, the International Olympic Committee on Wednesday formally approved the inclusion of surfing, skateboarding, karate, rock climbing, baseball and softball for the 2020 summer games in Tokyo. But some athletes have mixed feelings about their sport entering one of the world’s most visible arenas. “With the many options that young people have, we cannot expect any more that they will come automatically to us. “We want to take sport to the youth,” Thomas Bach, IOC president, said in the release. The new sports, according to a press release, were chosen in hopes of attracting a younger crowd.

Source: Huffington Post August 04, 2016 01:25 UTC