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Sporting action at the Tokyo 2020 Games
The International Olympic Committee Executive Board has approved the final sporting programme on 9th June, 2017 setting the different sporting disciplines that will be competed in Tokyo next year. The 2020 Tokyo Summer Olympics will feature a total of 339 events in 33 different sports across a range of 50 disciplines.
Apart from the core Olympic games, the Tokyo edition will witness the introduction of a few new sports that have been added to the Olympic programme to make it more urban and youthful in nature and push for the rise of female participation in the events.
The Tokyo Games will see the debut appearance of the following sports - Skateboarding, Karate, Sport Climbing and Surfing. Some other disciplines to be added to existing sports include 3x3 Basketball, Madison cycling and Freestyle BMX events.
Baseball and Softball make their return to the Olympics fray after their removal from the Olympics programme after 2008.
