The World Squash Federation (WFS) is seeking a clarification on the recent rejection of the sport for the 2020 Olympics in Japan. The International Olympic Committee (IOC) had recently offered the 2020 Games' hosts the opportunity to increase the number of sports previously agreed by the Buenos Aires session in 2013. The Tokyo 2020 Organising Committee did recommend a further five sports – baseball-softball, karate, surfing, skateboarding and climbing - but did not include squash. N. Ramachandran, the WSF's president, said it found it “difficult to understand” the decision. Ramachandran said the WSF had even offered to provide the hosts with the two all-glass show courts at no cost, and these would have remained in Japan as a legacy of the Games. Ramachandran is asking the IOC to explain how sports which were previously eliminated by the IOC, when squash was shortlisted, have now been considered. He will request that squash be given the same opportunity.

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