Don’t mind the other new sports I normally don’t like sports that only use judges
Surfing? How the hell are they going to pull that off? No two waves are alike, so no two waves will present the same opportunities, and scheduling the event will be a nightmare.
Ah, the Olympic dream:
Faster, Stronger, Higher, Sicker Tricks…
There are indoor wave pools and other surfing simulators. It might be possible to replicate a particular wave pattern so you can compare surfers.
Could just book an Olympic Cruise Ship event.
Perhaps Australia’s URBNSurf could be hired to set it up.
Is The Melbourne’s URBNSURF The World’s Best Wave Pool? - YouTube
Remember that for canoeing and kayaking competition at previous Olympic Games, dedicated facilities were built to host the events (for example, this one or this one). So it’s easy to imagine a wave facility being built in or near Paris, and then being used for other competitions or public, recreational use thereafter.
Ballroom dancing tried to get into Olympics maybe they are still trying
Atlanta used a river for canoe/kayak but they did move some of the rocks around. Ocoee river Eastern TN near the NC border The water was a dam release so it was pretty much the same every day.
‘Sport Climbing’? I don’t even want to know…
Hey, it’s Paris. Why not miming?
Cricket, the sport played by more people than any other sport in the world, is crying.
But it also proves the IOC is doing that thing of trying to make their product appeal to a younger demographic, because that’s what is commercially valuable. The sponsors are effectively picking the sports.
I have long felt that the only events that should be included in the Olympics are those that can be objectively measured: speed, distance, weight, etc. Nothing that requires judging.
not 100% sure but I think sport climbing will be timed. Skateboarding is basically summer version of snowboarding. Some athletes do both.
they need to get rid of any sport that already has a big worldwide competition(s) such as golf, tennis, soccer, etc. Or they should limit those sports to people 21 and under. Do golfers really care about olympics vs Masters, British open, etc. Or in tennis US open, French open, etc.
I’m fine with any sport that is about athleticism (at minimum). I admit that something judges with too subjective of criteria isn’t as fun to watch, but my understanding is that most of the stuff that is judged in the Olympics has objective guidelines for how things are judged, similar to writing a paper in school.
I also kinda enjoy the excitement/suspsense of them waiting to see their scores. And it seems to me the person who did the most athletic thing (and actually pulled it off cleanly) always won, at least in the gymnastics that I watched.
As long as you have commentary to let you know what’s going on, of course. Without that, it can be pleasing to watch, but I can’t enjoy the sport of it.
Bring back tug-of-war. It was an Olympic event from 1900 to 1920, and there are some great Youtube videos of recent world-class events.
There are three disciplines of sport climbing, all rely on object measures to determine the winner. The Speed event is head to head on identical routes, fastest time determines the winner. Those are sprint events that take 5-6 seconds. The Lead climbing event is a larger wall of much greater difficulty and the winner gets the furthest on the route in the allotted time. If two climbers tie on distance, the winner is determined by time. The final discipline is Bouldering, and the climbers do multiple routes on lower walls without protection (falls are short and land on padding). The person who does the most routes in an allotted time wins.
Maybe, one day-Ninja Warrior? 
The IOC press release in the OP says that the new sports are intended to make the Olympics “more gender balanced and more urban”. Is that another way of saying that the games at present favor sports played by white men at the exclusion of others? And the other thing is that I think some of these events seems like they lend themselves to co-ed competition, meaning men and women competing against each other, which might be a good thing?
I think some of the snow events were added to the Winter Games specifically to appeal to X-Games fans, so perhaps also they think that the Games need more youth appeal.
Shhhh.
Non! .
As someone who climbs, and used to breakdance, I’m really looking to seeing these sports on the olympic stage.
Breakdancing will be tough to judge though, even with judges who are themselves bboys. Because in competitions right now novelty is king. Yes having good fundamentals is important, and good general rhythm and timing. But doing something really fresh, particularly if it’s a power move, often wins competitions. It’s quite different to gymnastic competition in that respect.
Maybe for the olympics they’ll try to score it more like gymnastics, with a pool of moves that you must include and a lot of the scoring based on execution, and less emphasis on freestyling? I don’t know.