The International Sport Fishing Confederation submitted an application to become an International Olympic Committee recognised sport. We must remind that angling featured at the 1900 Olympic Games as an unofficial sport but no records of results or participants are available.
The move from a sports-based to an event-based Olympic Games, one of the recommendations of the Agenda 2020 reform process, effectively opened the door for more organisations to submit applications to gain recognition - which could then lead to a bid for a place on the Olympic programme further down the line.
