Golf and Rugby Approved for Rio in 2016

The IOC has voted to increase the number of Olympic sports from 26 to 28. Golf and Rugby Sevens will be added to the program for the 2016 games.

To get the final approval the sports needed a majority vote from the IOC members. Both had no trouble with this. Rugby was voted for in a big way by the IOC members who voted 81-8 in its favour. Golf got in by a margin of 63-27.

The President of the Olympic Movement Jacques Rogge as a former rugby international would have been pleased to see the seven’s version of the game get added to the games.

Rogge also was re-elected as President by a margin of 88-1. I wonder who voted against him. It was basically a rubber stamp as he was not challenged for the position.

Now we have nothing but to look forward to the winter games in 2010 and then the 2012 games in London.

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