Rio de Janeiro: Brazilian Adilson da Silva ended golf’s 112-year absence from the Olympics with his opening tee shot on Thursday, but the sport faces a fight to remain due to absent stars. “We see now in the discussion in the golf community, there are obviously very different reasons for not going to Rio, not related to Zika,” Bach said. But the world’s four top players—Australia’s Jason Day, Americans Dustin Johnson and Jordan Spieth and Northern Ireland’s Rory McIlroy—were among about 20 top stars who skipped Rio. “It was always going to be hard to find two weeks in the middle of the summer,” Stenson said. Next year, the International Olympic Committee will evaluate its offerings in every sport category to determine inclusion beyond 2020 in Tokyo.

Source: Mint August 11, 2016 14:05 UTC