2008 Olympic sports-Who chose them & what are they?

Some of the sports in the Beijing Olympics 2008 include:

-Swimming

-diving

-syncronised swimming

-water polo

-archery

-athletics

-badminton

-baseball

-basketball

-boxing
-canoe/kayak flatwater

-canoe/kayak slalom

-cycling

-equestrian

-fencing

-football

-gymnastics artistic

-gymnastics rythmic

-gymnastics tranpoline

-handball

-hockey

-judo

-modern pentathlon

-rowing

-sailing

-shooting

-softball

-tabletennis

-teakwondo

-tennis

-trianthlon

-volleyball

-beach volleyball

-wheight lifting

-wrestling

These sports are chosen by the International Olympic Commitie. The IOC decides if the sport is Olympic or not. They also decide when and where the next Olympic games should be held.