Rugby, golf face challenge to stay in Olympics after 2020

what about cards

More people turn up to watch suburban under-12s rugby in New Zealand than watched the final of the Olympics rugby 7s games. Sure, Brazil is no rugby nation - but nor are almost any other nation that is unfortunate enough to hold future Olympics. Scrap it. Ditto golf.

Rugby Sevens did OK and will stay on Olympics. Golf by comparison was controversial, because top male golfers stayed out even if women's event was OK.

As for those five additional sports at the Olympics, they are one shot events with varying prospects of staying on the Olympics as permanent sports.

Baseball/Softball are gone after 2020 for sure. Surfing, maybe. Climbing, maybe. Skateboarding, out after some drug scandal Karate. Karate may have a shot at a return in 2024, but will not return in 2028, because 2028 Olympics will be hosted in Asia and Busan is the leading candidate.(Japan and China had their turns in 2020 and 2022 respectively). Of course Koreans will not allow Karate in their Olympics.

The tournament also featured the biggest upset in sevens history as Japan defeated world champions New Zealand.

this is so factually wrong. 7s and 15s are two completely different games so the author has no idea what they are on about. The world champions of 7s are Fiji. No one in NZ gave a rat's behind about 7s. Well maybe some girls will now but even the NZRFU didn't really care. They had their 7s team flying economy class to events all over the world but the 15s fly business class. Shows you the state of 7s in NZ.