New sports can apply to be in the 2020 Summer Olympics in Tokyo, and Friday was the deadline. There were 26 proposals, some of them are pretty ridiculous.

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Here's the list of sports that have applied:

  • Air sports
  • Baseball/Softball
  • Bowls
  • Bowling
  • Bridge
  • Chess
  • Dance Sport
  • Floorball
  • Flying Disc
  • Football
  • Karate
  • Korfball
  • Netball
  • Orienteering
  • Polo
  • Racquetball
  • Roller Sports
  • Sport Climbing
  • Squash
  • Sumo
  • Surfing
  • Tug-of-War
  • Underwater Sports
  • Waterski and Wakeboard
  • Wushu.

The committee in charge of the Tokyo Olympics gets to decide if any of them actually get added. If any have a chance, it's probably baseball or softball, which were part of the Olympics from 1996 to 2008.

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