Golf and rugby sevens will be included in the 2016 Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro.
Both sports brought back in Rio after long absence from Olympics
Golf and rugby sevens have been added to the Olympic schedule for the 2016 Games in Rio de Janeiro.
The decision was made in a vote by members of the International Olympic Committee (IOC) in Copenhagen on Friday.
Golf last featured at the quadrennial showpiece in St Louis in 1904, while rugby union was removed after the 1924 Games in Paris.
"Congratulations to both federations," said IOC president Jacques Rogge. "We all look forward to great competition in 2016 and 2020."
Rugby sevens had 81 votes in favour and eight against, and golf 63 in favour and 27 against.
Opposition
There was some opposition with Dick Pound, from Canada, arguing that the 106 members had not been given the opportunity to vote on the five sports including squash and karate who had been excluded earlier this year by the IOC's executive board.
Pound said: "The fact is we were not allowed to consider all seven sports.
"That's a mistake, it's not fair to the other five sports, and because we do not know why this was decided it is not a transparent process.
"The session was asking for guidance not a decision that would be take it or leave it."
Peter Dawson, acting president of the International Golf Federation, had to go on the defensive after American IOC member Anita DeFrantz questioned why golf clubs such as Augusta were allowed to be male only.
Dawson said: "We are aware that golf has a reputation for this but it is important to give the facts - we have 60 million golfers in the world of whom 25 percent are women.
"Single sex clubs for men or indeed for women make up 0.5 percent and is reducing, and inclusion in the Olympic Games will further consolidate the equality of the sport."
Village experience
Padraig Harrington and Michelle Wie both stressed that, given the opportunity, they would stay in the athletes' village during the Games.
Harrington said: "I can see nothing better than being in the Olympic village, living there and experiencing what the athletes go through. That's the highest point of the Olympics apart from the competition."
Both sports will be reviewed at the IOC session in 2017, the year after the Rio Games, before a final decision is taken on whether they will again feature in 2020.
Jonah Lomu, the former All Blacks winger, had earlier told IOC members that all top rugby players would want to play in the Olympic sevens tournament.
