add/drop
- Drop: Race Walking; Add: Horse Vaulting
- Drop: Synchronized Swimming and Rhythmic Gymnastics; Add: Sepak Takraw
- Drop: Shooting; Add: Lacrosse
- Drop: Table Tennis; Add: Tug-of-War
- Drop: Men’s Soccer; Add: Ten-Pin Bowling
- Drop: Tennis; Add: Darts
- Drop: Rhythmic Gymnastics and Trampoline; Add: Baseball
- Drop: Canoeing and Sailing; Add: Surfing
- Drop: Dressage; Add: Men’s Synchronized Swimming
Bring Back Tug of War, So Long Ping Pong: The Olympic Sports to Add — and Drop
Did you ever get that feeling, during London 2012, that there was something missing from your Olympics? Or that there was a sport dragging the whole thing down? Here, the TIME writers who covered the London 2012 Olympic Games offer up an Olympic sport they’d like to see phased out—and one they’d like to watch at future Games