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New Olympics Events Intended To Attract New Audience

Nick Mazone — Tue, 13 Jul 2021 13:16:13 +0000

The 2016 Olympics was the lowest-rated since 2000 and least-watched since 2004.
Skateboarding, Surfing, Climbing and Karate are the new Olympic sports.
Baseball and Softball also make a return to the games after nearly 15 years.

TOKYO – The Olympic Games haven’t had the same level of pull as in years past, at least that’s what the numbers say. The IOC is hoping that the addition of a handful of new events will help bring viewership back up to where it used to be.

The Olympics have been on a decline in viewership and in 2016, they capped off the lowest-rated and least-watched Olympics in years.

The opening ceremonies of the 2016 Summer Olympics had just 29.3 million views, down from 40.7 million in 2021 and 34.9 million in 2008.

There’s no definitive reason as to why the viewership has gone down and it’s likely a compilation of a multitude of reasons, but the committee is hoping to combat this problem by adding five new sports that are also available for Olympic betting fans to take advantage of.

The Olympic Solution?

The 2021 Olympics will see skateboarding, surfing, climbing and karate make their Olympic debuts while baseball and softball (grouped as one event) make a reappearance after 13 years.

Those interested in taking part in the Olympic betting odds will now have a new slew of sports to watch and bet on.

Bovada is offering odds on most of the new events, favoring Japan in baseball, the USA in softball, the USA in men’s Olympic skateboarding, Brazil in women’s skateboarding, the USA and Brazil in surfing, with a mixed result in karate among the different weight classes.

Nobody knows for sure whether the addition of the new sports will have any sort of positive impact, but it’s a good sign that something new is being attempted as it’s fair to say the Olympic Games were getting a little stale in certain areas.

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Brooke Raboutou Qualifies For Tokyo 2020 Climbing Event

Daniel Borjas — Mon, 19 Aug 2019 20:42:14 +0000

Brooke Raboutou will go to Tokyo 2020 for the climbing event.
She is the first USA athlete ever to qualify for Olympic climbing.
More qualifiers for the climbing event will be held throughout the year.

TALLAHASSEE, Fla. – Brooke Raboutou is going to the Summer Olympics in Tokyo for the climbing event.

Qualifying In Japan

The first qualifiers for the Olympic climbing event were at the IFSC Climbing World Championships in Hachioji, Japan. Hachioji is less than an hour away from where the 2020 Summer Olympics will be held. There, Raboutou qualified for the Olympic climbing event.

Climbing has three different disciplines. Speed climbing is a race between two climbers that scale a 15-meter wall. Bouldering is when climbers scale as many fixed routes as they can within four minutes. Lead climbing is when climbers climb as high as they can on a 15-meter wall within six minutes. There are no re-climbs in lead climbing.

Normally, a climber would choose one or two different disciplines to focus on. To be an Olympic climber, they need to do all three. This is known as combined climbing. Because of this, the IFSC Climbing World Championships was combined climbing.

During the World Championships, Raboutou placed sixth in the speed round. She then ended in tenth place for the lead and bouldering rounds. Her final standing was ninth place. Her ninth-place finish allows her to go to Tokyo in 2020.

By our count here at OlympicBettingOdds.com this officially makes Raboutou the seventh member of Team USA. The others are three open water swimmers, two modern pentathletes, and a triathlete. Tokyo 2020 will only have 20 athletes per gender with a max of two per country in climbing. This means that team USA can potentially send up to three more climbers to Tokyo. There are seven more opportunities for USA climbers to qualify for the climbing event and join Raboutou.

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Five New Sporting Events Will Take Place At Tokyo 2020

Christina Monroe — Thu, 25 Jul 2019 17:36:04 +0000

The 2020 Summer Olympics in Tokyo will begin July 24th and end August 9th.
More than 11,000 athletes are expected to compete in the Olympic Games.
Over 206 Nations will be playing for the gold.

TALLAHASSEE, Fla.- It’s been 56 years since Tokyo has hosted the Olympics and in 2020, they will introduce five new events to the Games. These events include karate, sport climbing, surfing, and skateboarding.

Baseball and softball will also be a part of Tokyo 2020 but this will not be their first Olympic debut. Softball and baseball have been in and out of the Olympic Games since the nineties. The last time these sports were part of the Olympics was in 2008.

A Closer Look At The Five New Events

Fittingly, karate will make its Olympic debut in the country where it all began. Both men and women will be competing in two different types of karate. Kata also is known as sparring will be centered around the athlete’s technique when it comes time for judges to score. Women will spar for two minutes while men will spar for three. The fighter with the most points will win in the sparring match. A draw would go to the person that scored a point first.

The second form of karate that will be done is called Kumite. Kumite is all about forms. The fighting is based on judging your virtually based opponent's moves and responding with the correct form. At the end of the match, judges raise flags of the color of the fighter they believe is the winner.

Sport climbing will be an event with both male and female competitors. There will be three separate parts to this event, bouldering, lead, and speed climbing. Bouldering requires athletes to try multiple routes on a 4-meter wall. Speed climbing is done on a 15-meter wall with a course in place. Two climbers will compete with each other to see who can climb the wall the fastest.

Lead climbing is when the athlete attempts to climb a 15-meter wall in 6 minutes using a rope along the way. Whichever athlete makes it to the top or makes it the highest within the time span is the winner. Each competitor will have to take part in all three events where the scores will be combined to place for medals.

Skateboarding will involve both street and park style skateboarding for male and female competitors. Street skateboarding will take place on a course styled like a street that will help athletes reveal their skillset. Park skateboarding will be done on a hollowed-out skatepark style course.

Surfing will be making waves at the 2020 Summer Olympic Games. The event will be comprised of 20 men and 20 women who will take part in various shortboard events. Shortboards are surfboards that are 6 feet in length. If this new sport is well received by viewers, longboards could be part of the future Olympic Games.

OlympicBettingOdds.com recalls that baseball and softball have had a love/hate relationship with the Olympics. After 12 years, they will both finally reenter the Games. Baseball will have a total of 16 games played by men and softball will have a total of 17 games played by women. All of this Olympic summer fun begins in July 2020 in Tokyo.

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