:Sure, the IOC works through IFs. That is true for all the Olympic sports.  Hence we get "Netball is a recognised Olympic Sport" By de jure, I mean it gets funding in many countries on the basis that it is an Olympic sport, and participates in governance with the other sports.  Looking at the IOC page  (drop the "international Federations" menu on the right down), we have "Official Sports" and "Recognised Sports". Note that Baseball/Softball is a "Recognised Sport" now, and Wrestling has recently migrated to an "Official Sport", having been restored to the programme for 2020 and 2024. All the Recognised Sports are theoretically eligible for inclusion on the Olympic Programme - Squash, Netball, Baseball/Softball and Wushu have all made bids for inclusion in recent years. So last time we went through this debate, it was decided to create a category "Olympic Recognised Sports".