Baseball and softball will be one-off additions to the Games, as neither is currently slated to be a part of the Paris Olympics. The baseball competition will be men only, while softball will be women only, which is why most lists seem to combine these two sports when counting the number of new Olympic sports being added, coming up with five instead of six. Six countries including the U.
When to watch: The baseball tournament will take place July 27 through August 7. Softball will take place from July 24 through July Karate, which originated in Japan, will be making its debut as an Olympic sport—something enthusiasts have been lobbying for since the s, the IOC says. The Tokyo Games will feature two karate disciplines: kata form demonstrations, where athletes are judged on technique and kumite a mat competition where athletes compete head to head.
The karate events will take place at the Nippon Budokan, which hosted the first World Karate Championships in Skateboarding will be added to the program for the first time in the Tokyo Olympics, taking the street sport fully mainstream.
The Tokyo Games will feature two skateboard disciplines, park and street, both of which will have prelims and finals. The park competitions will take place in a smooth, dome-shaped bowl, and competitors will be scored on originality and the difficulty of their tricks. Street competition, meanwhile, mimics a skatepark—think stairs, rails, and other real-world features—with a set amount of time.
Each discipline will have judges scoring the runs. Who to watch: Skateboarders to watch on the U. Sport climbing, another sport making its Olympics debut in Tokyo, requires solid strength to scale steep, overhanging ascents, as well as flexibility, skill, and technique.
You know soccer. And then the team started in a hole by dropping the first game 3—0 to Sweden. This is another new sport in There will be three different types of climbing, with placement in each combined into an ultimate score.
Your first question and mine: How big will the waves be? There will be timed heats, judged on degree of difficulty, commitment, innovation, speed, maneuvers and more. Olympic swimming is always exciting and dramatic. Unfortunately for her, it will be on the same day as the meter, setting up a grueling double.
Simone Manuel missed qualifying in the meter free, but made it in the 50 meter. Meanwhile, Caeleb Dressel is The Machine. He won two golds in Rio as a year-old. Then he won eight medals, and six golds, at the world championships. He will be a force in Tokyo. And keep an eye on backstroker Ryan Murphy. In fact, China has won 28 out of 32 golds since it became an Olympic sport in It is impressive to see how far away they stand from the table and how hard they hit the ball.
Taekwondo is an ancient sport that joined the Olympics in , but one of the story lines for those who have followed throughout the years is the way it has embraced technology.
According to WorldTaekwondo. Paige McPherson won bronze in London in , and silver at the world championships. All eyes will be on Naomi Osaka , a star at the top of her sport with a chance to win gold for the host country. She enters play ranked No.
He has won the first three Grand Slam events of , so a win at the U. Open would give him the first calendar-year Grand Slam since Rod Laver in Roger Federer and Rafael Nadal will not be in Tokyo.
Andy Murray won the last two singles golds, but he is now outside the top in the world. It is just about impossible to summarize all of track and field in a three-paragraph blurb.
The biggest story coming out of the U. She has become even more of a star since then, but was left off the Olympic team. There will be other stars, as there always are. Allyson Felix returns for her fifth Olympics, with nine medals already in tow. The indomitable human spirit! Trampoline is a short event. It takes place at midnight ET on the middle weekend, so maybe set yourself a calendar reminder.
The Olympic individual distance is a 1. The fastest times will be just under two hours, and the races will take place early in the morning in Tokyo, giving it a plum spot in the U.
The new team relay will feature two men and two women covering much shorter distances. Volleyball is similar to beach volleyball, except totally different. They play indoors, with six on each side, and have a slightly bigger playing surface, different strategies and different scoring rules. They play best-of-five matches, with sets up to But the fifth set, if necessary, goes up to only Water polo is another personal favorite of mine.
It takes the features we love about soccer and basketball and drops them in a pool, where there is legitimate violence taking place under the water. It takes a lot out of the athletes to stay afloat, battle opponents for position and throw the ball where they want it to go.
You can see standout individual performances and great team ball movement. Steffens scored 21 times in London and 17 in Rio.
Di Mario got her 47 goals in four Olympic appearances. A very simple concept to understand: see weight, lift weight. Competition is broken into two events—the snatch, and the clean and jerk.
The snatch is one continuous motion, lifting the barbell from the ground up over your head. In the clean and jerk, lifters will first clean lifting the bar off the ground , then jerk a second motion over their heads. Few sports offer the viewer a chance to truly feel the struggle of the athletes in live time, watching them grimace and shake as they hoist the bar over their heads like a conquered beast.
This sport also has wonderful introductions, as the lifters come out one at a time to walk toward their bars. Last but not least. Wrestling was unexpectedly dropped from the list of core Olympic sports back in , losing its guaranteed place in the Olympics, but was reinstated after the governing body made some changes to modernize the ancient sport. Scoring is now cumulative for the whole match, rather than reset each period, which helps promote more action and results in less passivity.
In , Helen Maroulis became the first U. She had a difficult road back from multiple concussions and a PTSD diagnosis, and a very emotional win at the U. Trials against Jenny Burkert, whose mom had died the week before. Maroulis is moving up a weight class and has another former Olympic champ in her bracket. She is a five-time world champ, but she fell short of the podium in Rio.
As a reminder, this newsletter is free if you sign up to receive it in your inbox. You can also subscribe to SI. Christian McCaffrey is healthy and playing, but he isn't the top-ranked RB this week! Beckham Jr. Newton signed with the Panthers earlier this week. Those skiers since went very separate ways. Mikaela Shiffrin is the only U. Olympic medalist with a World Cup podium finish this season, and she has seven of them with six wins. Lindsey Vonn , Julia Mancuso and Ted Ligety have all missed substantial time in the last two years due to injuries.
And Bode Miller will not be racing in St. The recent Russian doping problems have impacted biathlon more than most sports, but the stars to watch remain the same. The U. Brittany Bowe and Heather Bergsma lead the U. MORE: Olympic skeleton champion suspended. World champions will be crowned in cross-country skiing, ski jumping and Nordic combined. Eyes could be on Norwegian champion skiers who have dealt with different challenges since Sochi — Petter Northug jail sentence , Marit Bjoergen pregnancy and Therese Johaug suspension — provided they make it to Lahti.
This will award more medals in Winter Olympic sports events than any other global competition in Though some top snowboarders and freeskiers are usually absent, the aerials and moguls results in particular will be telling for PyeongChang medal predictions.
In , the U.
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