The International Olympic Committee's executive board voted this week to recognize cheerleading, the New York Times reports. So does this mean we'll see cheerleading at the 2020 Summer Olympics in Tokyo? Competitive cheerleading as a sport is every bit as thrilling and adrenaline packed as any major sporting event. If the petition is approved, cheerleading officially becomes an Olympic sport! Tuesday, December 6, 2016, the International Olympic Committee officially had the Olympics recognize Cheerleading as a sport! If the IOC decides to include cheerleading in the Olympics, it will be a dream come true for cheerleading’s greatest champion, Jeff Webb. The first Special Olympics Division was launched with 5 US National teams competing in Unified and Traditional Cheer, Unified and Traditional Pom, and Unified Hip Hop.

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What Is The Cheerleading Olympics?

Cheerleading is one of the sports available to our athletes in Special Olympics of Arizona. The International Olympic Committee voted on new sports to be added intp the Olympics. Today, USA Cheer announced the exciting news that the University of Kentucky cheerleaders will represent the United States at the 2018 Winter Olympic Games in Pyeongchang, South Korea, where they will perform at a variety Olympic events, including closing ceremonies and a cheerleading championship with teams from other countries. Barton County Community College Athletic Recruiting. Cheerleading Athletes of all ages and abilities learn cheers, chants, and routines that develop skills in proper pace, volume, motions, tumbling, stunting, jumps and choreography. The growth of cheerleading over the last 40 years is largely due to the hard work and dedication of one man.

Sixteen sports total applied for provisional status and muaythai along with cheer was also accepted, taking the number of recognized olympic sports from 35 to 37. Aids and props such as poms, signs, megaphones and flags may be used to enhance …

The International Cheer Union (ICU) is the worldwide sports governing body of cheerleading (also known as "Cheer") and is provisionally recognized by the International Olympic Committee (IOC) as such. Our next event is the Special Olympics World Summer Games in Abu Dhabi March 2019. But in less than a decade, cheerleaders could be seen alongside the Olympic rings. Now comes news that cheerleading has received provisional recognition by the International Olympic Committee, a pinnacle in a history that dates to the 1800s.

really, cheer leading is a very fun sport and it would be totally awesome if they put that in, but if they vote on it then it probably wont be in 2012 but we can only hope! But its very status as a sport has constantly been questioned.