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5 New Sports to Watch During the 2020 Summer Olympics

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There will be 5 new sports at the 2020 Summer Olympics. The Olympic committee considered several factors when deciding which games will make a huge impact during the 2020 Olympics. They included the youth appeal, the implications for gender equality, and the legacy. Below you’ll see the guide to the new sports and how they […]

There will be 5 new sports at the 2020 Summer Olympics. The Olympic committee considered several factors when deciding which games will make a huge impact during the 2020 Olympics. They included the youth appeal, the implications for gender equality, and the legacy.

Below you’ll see the guide to the new sports and how they will appear at Tokyo 2020 Olympics.

1.       Surfing

Surfing is among the five games that will be making debut at the 2020 Summer Olympic Games in Tokyo. It will take place at the Shidshita beach, which is 40 miles away from Japan’s capital, Tokyo. Twenty women and men are expected to participate in separate matches. Typically, surfing matches are categorized according to the board’s measurements, and the 2020 Olympic Games will involve shortboards. They are approximately 1.8 meters (six feet) in length, as opposed to longboards, measuring about 2.7 meters (nine feet).

During the competition, four players will take part in a go. Two best players of every heat will continue.

The athletes will be judged on the difficulty of maneuvers they make, how they execute them as well as the speed. 

2.       Karate

Interestingly, karate, a martial art that has its origin in Okinawa, will make its debut in Tokyo, joining wrestling, judo, and taekwondo. Karate consists of 2 disciplines for both women and men: Kumite (sparring) and kata (forms).

In Kumite, two competitors with the same weight will face off in an eight by eight square meter for three minutes. The competitors will be awarded points after landing strikes, punches, or kicks with good power, form, and control on the targeted part of the opponent’s body. 

The athlete with the most points when the match comes to an end or the first athlete to get an eight-point lead will be the winner.

When it comes to kata, the athletes are supposed to demonstrate defensive and offensive movements against a virtual opponent. They are evaluated on speed, strength, balance, power, rhythm among other things.

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3.       Skateboarding

Once reserved for the rich in the streets of southern California, skateboarding is finding its way in the greatest stage of all – the Olympics. The women’s and men’s Olympic skateboarding will consist of events: street and park.

The park involves a bowl-like course – as it appears hollowed out. Participants use the inclines within the cause in building momentum as well as performing tricks. They are judged on originality and difficulty, among other things.

The street, on the other hand, is a replicate of street skating, with ramps, rails, and stairs that riders can use to perform various tricks. A ride skates alone on the three times runs and are judged in things such as speed, height, tricks, and originality. Only their highest score is considered for the overall ranking.

4.       Baseball/Softball

Softball and baseball will be returning to Olympic after missing after the 2008 Olympic Games in Beijing.

Baseball involves two teams with nine players. The players aim at scoring the largest number of runs after they hit the ball and run around several bases before reaching the home plate. The participating team will battle and field their innings in turns. If a competing team gets 3 team players out, they switch. The side with the largest number of runs after 9 innings of fielding and batting wins.

Softball featured first in the Olympics in 1996 and was thought to be some form of baseball. It was later removed together with baseball. It has many similarities with baseball only that the distance between batter and pitcher shorter, has a short bat, and the ball is larger and lighter.

5.       Sport Climbing

Unless you live under the rock, instead of climbing it, you’ll agree with us that climbing is the new game as everyone is doing it.

According to the International Federation of Sport Climbing (IFSC), sport climbing is enjoying increased popularity, with about 25 million persons across the world engaging in climbing regularly. They also estimate that 1000 to 1,500 people are participating in climbing for the first time in the US every day.

No wonder the International Olympic Committee has decided to include it in their pool of matches. It will involve three disciplines, including speed climbing, lead climbing and bouldering.

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