The 2022 youth Olympic games dates have been finalized with Dakar, Senegal, holding the fourth edition of the event as well as a new twist on an historic sport. The event will be staged October 22—November 9, 2002, after getting approval from the worldwide Olympic Committee’s executive Board.

It will be the very first Olympic event held on the continent of Africa. The youth Olympic games will be held during the beginning of the dry season in Camiseta Selección de fútbol de Canadá Dakar as well as will see the event coincide with Africa youth Day on November 1.

Two new sports will likewise be added to the program with baseball5 as well as wushu. Baseball5 is promoted as an metropolitan version of baseball as well as softball, with four women Camiseta Selección de fútbol de Países Bajos as well as four guy contending together on a team. It is played on a short field with five players on defense at one time for a game that lasts five innings. players utilize their hands to swat the sphere into play instead of utilizing a bat.

“The inclusion of Baseball5 at the youth Olympic games is the goal we had set ourselves since the beginning of the job in 2017,” stated world Baseball Softball Confederation president Riccardo Fraccari. “Our newest self-control has seen tremendous growth in recent years. Its accessibility has increased our capability to grow our sport globally as well as bring the skills as well as the values of baseball-softball to young people in under-served communities.”

Wushu will have two men’s as well as two women’s events on the program. It is a youth-focused battle sport as well as was featured on the All-Africa youth games program in 2018. The worldwide Wushu Federation has 39 national federations on the African continent.

The inclusion of baseball5, together with breaking, skateboarding, sport climbing as well as surfing, means all sports from the Tokyo 2020 as well as Paris 2024 proposals Camiseta TSG 1899 Hoffenheim are included in the Dakar 2022 program.

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