You can choose one permanent sport, bring back one old demonstration sport, and one new demonstration sport to the LA 2028 Olympics. What are they?

[Menace Sockeyes]

I’m going with…

Permanent: Lacrosse (Native American sport)
Classic: Foot Volley
New: Beach Soccer

Here’s your lists…
Demonstration Sports:

• American Football: 1904, 1932
• Angling: 1900
• Australian Rules Football: 1956
• Ballooning: 1900
• Boules: 1900
• Bossaball: 2016
• Bowling: 1936, 1988
• Budō (japanese martial arts): 1964, archery (kyūdō), wrestling (sumo) and fencing (kendo) events
• Canne de Combat: 1924
• Canoeing: 1924
• Cannon Shooting: 1900
• Cricket: 1896
• Cycle Polo: 1908
• Dueling: 1908
• eSports: 2016, 2021
• Field Handball: 1952
• Fire Fighting: 1900
• Footvolley: 2016
• Gaelic Football: 1904
• Glima: 1912
• Gliding / Aeronautics: 1936
• Historical Sports: 1960
• Hurling: 1904
• Kaatsen: 1928
• Kabaddi: 1936
• Kite Flying: 1900
• Kite foil racing: 2021
• Korfball: 1920, 1928
• Lifesaving: 1900
• Longue Paume: 1900
• Motor Racing: 1900
• Motor Cycling: 1900
• Pigeon Racing: 1900
• Pesäpallo: 1952
• Real Tennis (Jeu de Paume): 1924
• Reining: 1996-2004?
• Roller Hockey (Rink-hockey): 1992
• Sambo: 1980
• Savate: 1924
• Sumo: 1964, 2021
• Water Motorsports: 1900
• Water Skiing: 1972
• Windsurfing: 1984
• Wushu: 2008

Former Official Sports:

• Baseball/Softball: 1904, 1912, 1924, 1936, 1952, 1956, 1964, 1984 and 1988 (an official medal sport 1992-2008).
• Basque Pelota: 1900 (official sport); 1924, 1968 & 1992 (demonstration sport)
• Lacrosse: 1928, 1932 & 1948 (Official sport in 1904, 1908)

Future Sport?

 

[mthawkeyes]

There are definitely enough countries that play baseball and softball that they should be included.

 

[Funky Bunch]

Pigeon Racing sounds fun

 

[Funky Bunch]

Is Hurling the same as projectile vomiting?

 

[HROT]

Sumo

 

[Formerly Rockymtnole]

There are definitely enough countries that play baseball and softball that they should be included.

I think they take way too much time and facilities would be a problem.

 

[Menace Sockeyes]

There are definitely enough countries that play baseball and softball that they should be included.

I think they take way too much time and facilities would be a problem.

My issue is that if international popularity is the metric, it would be cricket as the stick and ball game

 

[denmar81]

Definitely baseball and softball. Breakdancing but no baseball, WTF.

 

[jamesvanderwulf]

Past - Cannon shooting
Permanent - Baseball
Future - Drive by shooting ....JK...Pickleball will dominate in the future

 

[artradley]

I’m going with…

Permanent: Lacrosse (Native American sport)
Classic: Foot Volley
New: Beach Soccer

Here’s your lists…
Demonstration Sports:

• American Football: 1904, 1932
• Angling: 1900
• Australian Rules Football: 1956
• Ballooning: 1900
• Boules: 1900
• Bossaball: 2016
• Bowling: 1936, 1988
• Budō (japanese martial arts): 1964, archery (kyūdō), wrestling (sumo) and fencing (kendo) events
• Canne de Combat: 1924
• Canoeing: 1924
• Cannon Shooting: 1900
• Cricket: 1896
• Cycle Polo: 1908
• Dueling: 1908
• eSports: 2016, 2021
• Field Handball: 1952
• Fire Fighting: 1900
• Footvolley: 2016
• Gaelic Football: 1904
• Glima: 1912
• Gliding / Aeronautics: 1936
• Historical Sports: 1960
• Hurling: 1904
• Kaatsen: 1928
• Kabaddi: 1936
• Kite Flying: 1900
• Kite foil racing: 2021
• Korfball: 1920, 1928
• Lifesaving: 1900
• Longue Paume: 1900
• Motor Racing: 1900
• Motor Cycling: 1900
• Pigeon Racing: 1900
• Pesäpallo: 1952
• Real Tennis (Jeu de Paume): 1924
• Reining: 1996-2004?
• Roller Hockey (Rink-hockey): 1992
• Sambo: 1980
• Savate: 1924
• Sumo: 1964, 2021
• Water Motorsports: 1900
• Water Skiing: 1972
• Windsurfing: 1984
• Wushu: 2008

Former Official Sports:

• Baseball/Softball: 1904, 1912, 1924, 1936, 1952, 1956, 1964, 1984 and 1988 (an official medal sport 1992-2008).
• Basque Pelota: 1900 (official sport); 1924, 1968 & 1992 (demonstration sport)
• Lacrosse: 1928, 1932 & 1948 (Official sport in 1904, 1908)

Future Sport?

None of those should be in the Olympics.

 

[Funky Bunch]

 

[Menace Sockeyes]

None of those should be in the Olympics.

Lacrosse because it is from a very small list of former permanent sports, the US is not a lock for gold (Canada has won three of a fourteen possible World Championships and Australia has won silver four times) and has never gotten a true international shot in modern times.

Footvolley was awesome in Rio. Easily the best demonstration sport in my lifetime, (though I did like roller hockey in the ‘90s, it’s pretty dated).

Beach soccer would be a natural at Venice Beach, and it has a huge international following, with many countries that do well but don’t excel in many other Olympic sports (Tahiti, El Salvador, Senegal, Belarus, Uruguay, Portugal).

 

[LuciousBDragon]

Bring back Roller Hockey and do it on the beach like Pro Beach Hockey did in the 90’s on ESPN2.

Add professional seppuku to the demonstration events.

 

[Menace Sockeyes]

Just learned basque pelota is what’s known in the Americas as “jai alai”.