What to watch for the next Games
The practical takeaway is that Olympic inclusion is now a two-stage filter: the IOC's baseline criteria decide what is eligible in principle, and each individual host city's organizing committee decides what actually fits its own Games, subject to IOC and international federation sign-off. That means the sport list for Brisbane 2032 or any future host will not simply extend whatever worked at the previous Games. It will depend on what that specific city's organizers believe fits their vision, their venues and their audience, exactly the calculation LA28 made when it kept skateboarding and cut breaking.
