For the Winter Games in Sochi , the International Olympic Committeeadded 12 new events . We might be two and four yr away from the next Olympic Games , but the appendage to add young consequence is well underway . It ’s clock time to reckon what the next set of athletics to break ( or re - break ) Olympic background will be .
2016 Summer Olympics
As far back as 2008 , the International Olympic Committee notified the world governing eubstance of the seven sports being considered to fill two vacancies in the 2016 lineup . representative from baseball and playground ball — which were dropped in a 2005 IOC meeting , effective at the 2012 London Olympics — along with karate , golf , crimper sport , squash and rugby made introduction to the IOC in Lausanne , Switzerland , in June 2009 . After across-the-board lobbying , an IOC plug-in selected golf and a pared - down , seven - man - per - squad version of rugger as competition .
That October , the full 106 - member IOC meeting place sign the selection . Under a new rule , each sport only needed a simple absolute majority , and not a two - thirds majority as had previously been the case , to get together the program .
The Hellenic 15 - man squad rugby was played inconsistently in the Olympics in the early 1900s , appearing four timesbetween 1900 and 1924 . The United States was only the team to take home the Au medal twice during that former incarnation .
Golf was also a part of the first Olympicsin the 20th Century . But it disappeared from the syllabus after inclusion body in the 1900 and 1904 Games . Just as with rugger , the U.S. currently has the most Olympian golf game medals — but that might have something to do with the fact that in 1904 , 74 of the 77 golfers who participate were American .
2018 Winter Olympics
After the inflow of new sports in the last Winter Olympics , the programme was deemed enough packed , so no additions were approved for 2018 . Typically , the card for any given Olympics is determined , along with the boniface metropolis , seven to eight years ahead of meter . PyeongChang , South Korea has already be tapped to host in 2018 . That said , specific sports are still buttonhole for inclusion .
In plus to the five medal events for work force and women , severally , alpine skiing is drive for an 11th coed team event to be add together . " Now we are confident that [ the IOC is ] very assailable and supportive of include the nations team effect , " International Ski Federation ( FIS ) repository full general Sarah Lewis toldReuters .
