Sport Features, Laura
Walden, Rome, Sports Features Communications, 8 December 2012
December 8
- After years of discussion the European Olympic Committes (EOC) have approved
the European Games. The first edition will be held in Baku, Azerbaijan in June
2015.
The
European Games will have a roster of 15 Olympic sports disciplines with two
non-Olympic sports. The first ones will be a test for the 2019 edition to see
how the program plays out.
Dance sport
and karate will be the two non-Olympic sports on the program. Karate is in the
running to become and Olympic sport in 2020. Dance sport should bring on
television coverage given the popularity of dance competition programs abroad
in the USA and Great Britain.
Now the EOC
will have to liaise with the International Sports Federations and work this
into the calendar.
Originally
in the '90's when Dr. Jacques Rogge was then president of the EOC before he
went on to become IOC chief, he carried out a feasibility study on the European
Games over the 28 Olympic sports.
The already
active sports calendar was a large deterrent for the project going ahead.
The new
plan seems to have been the recipe for success for a new elite event on the
European sports calendar.
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