• IOC announces plans to make 2020 Olympics 'more youthful and urban'• Emphasis also put on introducing more events for female competitiors The International Olympic Committee (IOC) has announced radical changes to the event programme for Tokyo 2020 to make the Games "more youthful, more urban and will include more women". It was already known that Tokyo would have five more sports than Rio, taking the total to 33, but the existing 28 sports have been given 15 more events.
Olympics 2020: three-on-three basketball among five extra sports in Tokyo
The Guardian - 9 Jun 2017 17:22
• IOC announces plans to make 2020 Olympics 'more youthful and urban'• Emphasis also put on introducing more events for female competitiors The International Olympic Committee (IOC) has announced radical changes to the event programme for Tokyo 2020 to make the Games "more youthful, more urban and will include more women". It was already known that Tokyo would have five more sports than Rio, taking the total to 33, but the existing 28 sports have been given 15 more events.
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