The 2012 Summer Olympic programme features 26 sports and a total of 39 disciplines. London's bid featured 28 sports, in line with other recent Summer Olympics, but the IOC voted to drop Baseball and softball. The IOC considered new sports of karate, squash, golf, roller sports and Rugby sevens, but none received enough votes to reach the required two-thirds majority. [Golf and Rugby sevens will be added in 2016.]
Women's boxing will be added to the programme. Forty athletes will compete in five different weight classes.
snowboard cross is the sport introduced at the winter Olympics 2010
There will be no new introduced sport Karate and squash were considered and not approved. They did add Women;s Boxing but Boxing was already part of the sports and was just an added set of events.
Golf and Rugby will be the newest Olympic sport at the summer Olympics in London in 2012.
Women's boxing was introduced as a new event for the 2012 Summer Olympic Games
According to the events schedule on the official London 2012 Olympics website, the first sport to take place at the 2012 Olympics will be women's football, which will begin on July 25.
Yes, basketball is still an Olympic sport. The 2012 Olympic Games will be held in London.
It is in the Olympics. It was first introduced as a demonstration sport in The Korean Olympics 1988, then formally introduced as a competition sport in the year 2000
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There are 534 US athletes in the London Olympics
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