The International Olympic Committee voted Wednesday to accept a five-sport package that included baseball and softball in the 2020 Olympics at Tokyo.
Karate, skateboarding, sports climbing and surfing will also be included. Baseball and softball are considered one sport with separate men's and women's competitions by the IOC.
“We want to take sport to the youth," IOC President Thomas Bach said in a release. "With the many options that young people have, we cannot expect any more that they will come automatically to us. We have to go to them.
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"Tokyo 2020’s balanced proposal fulfils all of the goals of the Olympic Agenda 2020 recommendation that allowed it.