Forget everything you ever knew about how sports are chosen for the Olympics

Kirsty Coventry’s “Fit for the Future” eliminates the traditional list of core sports and means each individual discipline must prove it is worth a place for EVERY Games, strengthening the IOC’s power

Nordic combined’s exclusion from the 2030 Winter Olympics in the French Alps was no surprise, but has left people wondering what it means for the summer sports programme at Brisbane 2032.

Those looking closely for clues are examining the significance of a decision to replace a traditional sport with two new disciplines, freeride and synchro9.

The International Olympic Committee has launched a new data-driven analysis to score and evaluate the sports which will be included on the programme from 2032 onwards, but no-one is quite sure yet how this will actually work in practice.