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From today on, we are welcoming you to our exciting new series where we dive into the thrilling world of emerging Olympic sports.
From adrenaline pumping skateboarding to the technical moves of sport climbing, we'll explore the fascinating history, history's unique rules, and why these sports are captivating audience, especially the youth.
For today's show, I'm joined by Steve Hatherley and Yu Shun.
Now grab your virtual compass and follow us to the heart of the discussion.
Get ready for Paris this summer where tradition meets the cutting edge.
This year, we're thrilled to introduce a fascinating series of sports that will redefine the excitement of competition.
We will witness exhilarating heights of sport climbing, gravity defying tricks of skateboarding, and epic waves of kayak cross.
Join us as we celebrate the spirit of competition and see history in the making.
Experience the thrills of new sports in Paris.
Don't you miss a moment of it.
According to the official website of Olympics, the Paris 2024 Summer Olympics will feature 32 sports in total.
This includes 28 core Olympic sports that were also contested in the 2016 and 2020 Summer Olympics and four additional sports proposed by the Paris organizing committee.
So for today on, we're starting to giving you some info about these new or additional or emerging, depending on the real status of the sport.
And we'll explain how these different words actually matter and are actually different when it comes to additional sports in the Olympics.
And to start that conversation, I think it is fair for us to have a little background info about Olympics because personally, I am not a super hardcore sport fan.