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!
, Doha and Prague—becoming a Candidate city during the 2008 SportAccord Convention in Athens, Greece.
Rio de Janeiro was shortlisted receiving a 6.4 score, according to a study of its Application File delivered to the IOC Working Group on January 14, 2008. As a Candidate city, Rio de Janeiro submitted its Candidature File to the IOC on February 11, 2009. The dossier was analyzed by the IOC Evaluation Commission, which arrived in the city on April 27, 2009, to assess the quality of the bid
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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