The organizing committee of the Paris Summer Olympics officially announced that karate was excluded from the program of the 2024 Games.
This sport was not included in the list of disciplines that will be presented in the capital of France in three years.. Also at the next summer Games there will be no baseball and softball, but the break dance competition will debut, according to the official website of the organizing committee of the competition..
Earlier, the IOC gave the cities that host the Olympics the right to include several sports in the competition program at their discretion.. Tokyo opts for karate, baseball and softball.
Paris staked on break dance, sport climbing, skateboarding and surfing.
At the Tokyo Olympics, Ukrainian karate fighters won two medals: Anzhelika Terlyuga became a silver medalist, Stanislav Goruna won a "
At the 2020 Olympics, the honor of Ukraine was defended by 157 Olympians in 25 sports (30 disciplines).
In the piggy bank of the country at the Tokyo Olympics 19 medals - one gold, six silver and 12 bronze.
In the medal standings of the Games in Tokyo, our team took 44th place.