I wonder if Surfing, knee boarding or body boarding will ever become an Olympic sport during the Summer Games?
Maybe they could be! They're pretty popular sports after all. I'd love to see surfing for sure!
As popular as surfing is around the world, the Olympic Games would be a chance to see tup to 200 Nations compete
Yeah, that's true too! I wonder which team would get gold if it existed... I have a feeling it'd be Australia.
I bet the Brazilians would have fared pretty well at the last Summer Games in Rio de Janeiro.
Yeah, I have a feeling they would have too! The athletes there seem to be pretty good!
Brazil was a much better choice for the Summer Olympics than would have been for the other nominee cities of Chicago, Doha and the Prague.
Yeah, definitely. It's a beautiful city. Chicago seems a little bland and I'm not too sure about Doha and the Prague.
Chicago bid for the 2016 Summer Olympics
The Chicago bid for the 2016 Summer Olympics and Paralympics was an unsuccessful bid, first recognized by the International Olympic Committee (IOC) on September 14, 2007. The IOC shortlisted four of the seven applicant cities—Madrid, Spain; Tokyo, Japan; Rio de Janeiro, Brazil; and Chicago, United States; over Baku, Azerbaijan; Doha, Qatar; and Prague, Czech Republic—on June 4, 2008, during a meeting in Athens, Greece. This was
was included in a shortlist along with baseball, softball, skateboarding, surfing, and sport climbing to be considered for inclusion in the 2020 Summer Olympics; and in June 2016, the Executive Board of the International Olympic Committee (IOC) announced that they would support the proposal to include all of the shortlisted sports in the 2020 Games. Finally, on August 3, 2016, all five sports (counting baseball and softball together as one sport) were approved for inclusion in the 2020 Olympic program.
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