Expectations high for new Olympic sports to be added for Tokyo Games

Expectations high for new Olympic sports to be added for Tokyo Games

Composite picture of successive shots shows Miwa Oba, a high school student, doing "speed" sport climbing on Meiji University's campus in Tokyo's Suginami Ward on Nov. 28, 2015. Sport climbing is among the sports Tokyo 2020 organizers have proposed to the International Olympic Committee for addition for the Olympics in the Japanese capital in five years' time. The IOC will announce the additional sports for the Tokyo Games in August 2016. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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