Baseball, skateboarding, surfing, karate, and climbing will feature in 2020 in an effort to increase local support for the Games.
Before the Rio Olympics have even begun, the International Olympic Committee (IOC) has announced the 2020 Tokyo Games will have five new sports.
In an attempt to boost support from the home crowd, baseball and softball, skateboarding, surfing, karate and climbing will be included in Tokyo's Games.
The IOC unanimously approved the decision taken by its executive board in June.
For some sports, it's the first time they will be competing in the Olympics.
Surfing Association President Fernando Aguerre says he hopes surfing athletes will make a good first impression in 2020.
"We think that surfing appeals globally and in that sense, our focus will be in making our appearance in the Olympic Games very memorable. Like that phrase 'you don't get a second chance to make a first impression' - we are going to give our best impression. We are going to do it the right way."
Dr Steve Georgakis, a sports expert at the University of Sydney, says he believes the new sports will also attract a younger audience to the Olympics.
"It introduces new spectators to the Games. If you notice, some of these games are alternate sports -- surfing, rock climbing -- and the idea is that you generate more interest from a wider section of the population, the youth, and by doing that you generate more interest and if you generate more interest, sponsors want to get involved."
The five new sports were picked from 26 battling to be included in the 2020 Olympics.
The successful joint softball-baseball bid is good news for Australia.
Softball was included in the Olympics from 1996 to 2008, and from the four appearances Australia won four medals -- the only other team to do was the United States.
Softball Australia chief executive Chet Gray says the sport is very popular in Australia.
"The sport's been very popular; I would say there's over 2,000 kids that actually participate in softball at the primary school level throughout the country - a lot of people don't know that fact. The other fact is that we started in the Olympic Games in 1996 and our last Olympic Games was in 2008. At that time Australia won a medal in every Olympic Games they participated in for softball -- the women's team did."
But Steve Georgakis says the inclusion of new sports destroys the traditions of the Olympic movement.
Mr Georgakis says two recent additions, tennis and golf, are not supported by those sports' top players.
He says the IOC includes sports that have become popular, but he says he is worried that this decision is more about commercial value than sporting ethics.
"Officially the IOC says that they include sports which have a wide presence around the world, that's the first criteria, and the second criteria is that these particular sports add to the value of Olympism but really what they're looking at is growing the Games from a commercial perspective and I think this is what really underpins their decision."
But the decision will be favoured by the Japanese crowd, especially the addition of baseball, Japan's most popular sport.
For Australian women playing softball it's another chance to have their sport represented at an elite level.
Chet Gray says he thinks Australia's women's softball team will keep up its track-record and win more medals in 2020.
"We hope that being back and being able to devote a lot of resources to a high performance program we can get back up to a podium finish as we have done in the past. It's very interesting to understand that the two top nations in the world for women's softball are Japan and the US and we've been actually right up there over a 20-year span ranked three in the world in women's softball."
Japan's national sport -- Sumo wrestling -- is yet to be included in the Games.
