Karate in the Olympics

This photo is of one  of my Florida black belts, Brad Congress. He and his wife visited the Olympic training facility in Colorado, which they said was impressive.

In my time in the arts, getting Karate into the Olympics was spoken as being impossible, due to the variety of standards and rules between systems and styles. Tae Kwon Do was much tighter and so were able to be included as a demonstration sport in 1988. Arlene Limas of the US won the women's welterweight gold. I knew here when she was a young competitor in Chicago and she was a Chinese stylist. She switched over for the Olympics. 

So, it looks like there has been a shift and that karate is in.  

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karate_at_the_2020_Summer_Olympics