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The sports for 2028 have already been decided. Flag football, baseball/softball, cricket, lacrosse and squash will be added. Breaking will not be included.

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Breakdancing seemed way too late, like someone old on the decision team was out of place with that one.

At that rate, Pickleball will be added in 40yrs - "Oh yeah I remember back after the Covid Pandemic, Pickleball was popular", says 60-70yr old person.

Oh hey that's my mom-in-law!

> Flag football, baseball/softball, cricket, lacrosse and squash will be added

Don't forget that modern pentathlon is dropping the equestrian portion and replacing it with a ninja-warrior obstacle course.

Running, swimming, fencing, shooting, obstacle course.

Jousting. That would have been marvelous.

I was surprised to know pétanque was never included and that it is slated for the 2026 youth Olympics.

Still waiting for pankration's comeback and the addition of Quake 3 CPMA, though.

Flag Football sounds interesting. I’m curious if much of the world will compete in it. Looks like a fun format with a small field, 5 players per side and clear rules - 4 tries to get a touchdown. And very fast I’m guessing.

I'd love to see Olympic capture the flag.

Apparently 42 teams competed in the last IFAF Flag Football World Championship. More countries than are members of the International Kabaddi Federation.

Damn you, Raygun! /s

Though tbf, I'm not sure any competition with an artistic element belongs in the Olympics. I would ditch stuff like figure skating and synchronized swimming. Gymnastics can stay, but I'd prefer it be more standardized.

How familiar are you with gymnastics scoring? It's quite rigid. The ongoing controversy is not really related to the objectiveness of judging, but an administrative error (assuming the IOC is truly in the wrong here).

All the sports you mention have had most of the artistic elements beaten out of them by standardised scoring systems. No one wins olympic gold in figure skating or synchronised swimming by being artistic, they do it by repeatedly and perfectly executing the highest scoring techniques as defined in the rule book.

Oh good, that's what I want, then.

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