Modern pentathlon is waiting to hear about its Olympic future after adding obstacles and ditching horses.
The athletes in modern pentathlon know for certain horses won’t be part of their event at the 2028 Los Angeles Olympics. They just hope they get invited. Although the century-old Olympic sport is on the docket for the Paris Games next summer — with horses — it’s not currently part of the LA Games program. That could soon change as the International Olympic Committee’s executive board meets this week to decide whether modern pentathlon, boxing and weightlifting will gain inclusion.
, said in an interview with The Associated Press in May. Modern pentathlon has been part of the Olympics since the 1912 Stockholm Games. Over the years, the sport invented by IOC founder Baron Pierre de Coubertin has gone through assorted transformations. For instance, pistol shooting was replaced by laser guns before the 2012 London Games. This, though, tested the fabric of the sport, as the equestrian component came under fire during the Tokyo Olympics.
surveyed 159 athletes at events, with the research showing 95.6% were “very satisfied” or “satisfied” with obstacles. The addition of obstacles may reduce cost barriers, too, given the price of training with horses. Ahmed Elgendy, the Tokyo Olympics silver medalist, said that he and about a dozen Egyptian modern pentathletes share one horse . It’s not the most ideal situation with the Paris Games less than a year away.
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