Here’s how you can keep finding new sports to love between now and the next Olympics
NPRHere’s how you can keep finding new sports to love between now and the next Olympics toggle caption Christopher Pike/AP One of the attractions of watching the Olympics is getting sucked into and learning about sports you’ve barely heard of before. Sponsor Message Team sports Upcoming Olympics will reintroduce lacrosse, which is played professionally and collegiately across the U.S., and will for the first time feature flag football. toggle caption Michael Dwyer/AP In the water Red Bull has a 15-year-old series of cliff-diving competitions in which athletes may leap from nearly 100 feet up, which really makes wings-delivering products sound tempting. toggle caption Eakin Howard/AP Net sports Tennis’ next Grand Slam tournament, the U.S. Open, starts later this month, and a national table tennis league was founded last year.