One unlucky sport set to be axed from Olympics
Squash and karate among favourites to be introduced to Games at another's expense
One sport federation will not be happy today as the executive board of the International Olympic Committee is set to vote to have a sport removed from the 2020 Summer Games.
The executive board will then vote at a later date on what sport should replace it at those Games with squash - which lost out to golf and rugby sevens for the 2016 edition - and karate among the front-runners to do so.
Such decisions do not sit easily with some of the IOC members outside the executive board who believe that such matters should be debated and decided upon by all of them.
They will, however, have the chance to vote their approval or not of the sport being voted off the 28 sports roster and its replacement at the IOC congress in Buenos Aires in early September.
"I don't think it is a very good idea to have such a vote in Buenos Aires," an IOC member not on the executive board said. "There is enough to be decided on there in the shape of the host city of the 2020 Games and the successor to Jacques Rogge as president.
[The pentathlon] is very expensive to put on and is slightly anachronistic, and doesn't look terrific on television
"It is many members' feelings that the sport should have been decided upon next year."