New Olympic Events, ... Sports?

The IOC Executive Board (EB) met today in Durban, South Africa, ahead of the 123rd IOC Session, at which the host city for the 2018 Olympic Winter Games will be chosen.

The EB confirmed the inclusion of ski slopestyle (men and women), snowboard slopestyle (men and women) and snowboard parallel special slalom on the sports program of the 2014 Olympic Winter Games in Sochi.

The EB also agreed on a shortlist of sports that will be considered for inclusion in the sports program of the 2020 Games of the Olympiad.

The sports are

• baseball
• karate
• roller sports
• softball
• sports climbing
• squash
• wakeboard
• wushu

One of these sports could be added to the 2020 Games program to be voted on by the 125th IOC Session in Buenos Aires in 2013. The program can include a maximum of 28 sports.