Karate will be an Olympic sport for the first time in Tokyo this year. It might be the last: Japanese Olympic organizers added it to the list of sports at this year’s Games under new IOC guidelines that allow organizing committees of each Olympics to include provisional new events for the Games they host. Karate will not be a competition at the 2024 Paris Olympics, and its status for Los Angeles in 2028 has yet to be determined.
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More about the Tokyo Olympics
The Tokyo Olympics have come to a close.
- The Closing Ceremonies brought the Olympics to an official end much the same way the international spectacle began: in a near-empty stadium. It was a fitting end to a complicated Games.
- Up next: The Beijing Winter Olympics, which begin Feb. 4, 2022. Here’s an early look at the next Games.
- Fewer and fewer cities want to host the Olympics, columnist Barry Svrluga writes. That should tell the IOC something.
- The United States finished the Tokyo Olympics with 113 total medals, including 39 gold. China was next best with 88 total and 38 gold. Here’s the complete medal count.
