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Golf, rugby added for 2016 and 2020

Associated Press

Friday, October 9, 2009

COPENHAGEN -- After more than a century on the sidelines, golf will return to the Olympics at the Summer Games in Rio de Janeiro. Rugby, last played in 1924, is coming back as well. Both were reinstated for the 2016 and 2020 Games after a vote Friday by the International Olympic Committee. They are the first sports added since triathlon and taekwondo joined the program for the 2000 Sydney Olympics. Each sport received majority support in separate votes after leading athletes and officials fr ...

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