Copenhagen - Golf and rugby sevens were admitted to the Olympics by the International Olympic Committee (IOC), while Jacques Roggee was reelected its president for a final four-year term on Friday. The two sports will join the summer Games in 2016 in Rio de Janeiro. Golf returns after 112 years, while rugby was played at the Olympics in 1924 in its 15-a-side version.
Both sports made 20-minute presentations to the IOC before a ballot approving their inclusion for the 2016 and 2020 Games.
Golf proposes a 72-hole strokeplay competition with 60 women and men each, while rugby plans a 12-team tournament for men and women.
Members voted 63-27 for golf, and 81-8 in favour of rugby.
Tiger Woods and some of the world's leading golfers urged the IOC to include the sport on the Olympic programme.
Woods, who is playing at the President's Cup in the United States, appeared in a video message in which he said it would be "an honour for anyone who plays this game to become an Olympian."
Earlier Rogge was reelected for another four-year term as IOC president.
All but five of the 93 IOC members at the 121st IOC Session voted for the 67-year-old Belgian, who has been IOC president since 2001 and was unopposed for a final four-year term.
"You have paid me a great honour. Together we have achieved a lot," said Rogge, who took over from Spaniard Juan Antonio Samaranch on July 16, 2001.
Rogge insisted on a secret ballot, even though he could have been reelected through acclamation as he was the only candidate.
Rogge received 88 votes in his favour with one against. Three members abstained and one vote was invalid.
Four new members were elected to the IOC executive: Mario Pescante of Italy, Ser Miang Ng of Singapore, Craig Reedie of Britain and John Coates of Australia.
Pescante and Ng take take vacant posts as vice-presidents, joining Germany's Thomas Bach and China's Yu Zaiqing.
The Olympic body also re-elected its current assembly and accepted six new IOC members, bringing the total number of IOC members to 112.
Danish Crown Prince Frederik was among the new members, who also included Richard Peterkin of St Lucia, Habu Ahmed Gumel of Nigeria, Habib Abdul Nabi Macki of Oman, Lydia Nsekera of Burundi and Goran Petersson of Sweden.
There was praise for Rogge from Samaranch who said that thanks to the president's leadership qualities the Olympics movement was stronger than ever.
"Your are a great president," he said.
Rogge said there was "much more to do" in his final four-year term, and underlined the importance of the new Youth Olympic Games, which will debut in Singapore in August, followed by the Youth Winter Olympic Games in Innsbruck in 2012.
"We will take this initiative from infancy to maturity and leave a lasting legacy for the world's youth," he said.
"We will be staunch allies for athletes. We will continue to lead the fight against doping, and we will establish a new independent monitoring body to combat irregular betting and match fixing.
"We will narrow the gap in sport between the developed and the developing worlds; and between men and women.
"We will redouble our efforts to place sport at the service of mankind - to inspire young and old alike; to give athletes the opportunity to lead by example; and promote the Olympic values of fair play, respect, solidarity and the pursuit of excellence."
Rogge, who was first elected at the 112th IOC Session in Moscow in 2001 as the eighth IOC president, has overseen successful summer Olympics in Athens (2004) and Beijing (2008) and Winter Games in Salt Lake City (2002) and Turin, Italy (2006).
The former athlete, who competed in the sailing competitions at the 1968, 1972 and 1976 Games and was also a member of the Belgian national rugby team, has made the fight against doping a priority and initiated a series of reforms to improve IOC governance.
Under his tenure the IOC has also quadrupled its financial reserves while distributing record revenue to international federations, National Olympic Committees and the Olympic Solidarity programme, which offers financial and training assistance to athletes.
