Personally, I'm in favour of the host nation deciding any additional medal events they want to hold, as long as they make it clear in their host bid.
Why should it be rejected though? You don't have to participate in sports you don't like.
I strongly disagree. Actually, what Ilyseum is citing as the original state of play was in fact a drafting mistake which was only realized quite a while afterwards; I had wanted to include rugby sevens and golf as medal events at the 5th Summer Olympics but was told I couldn't and this, or something else later, may have revealed the loophole. The amendment was to put into words what had been intended all along.
The intent was always to keep the Nationstates Olympics close to the RL Olympics and that is how I believe it should be. I would go so far as to argue that the clear analogue and simulation of the real thing is precisely what makes the Olympics as an RP event attractive and interesting. This would be lost if we just started including any sport as a medal event on the host's whim (I say whim because it's rare that we even get competing bids).
A multi-sport event with a variety of non-Olympic sports was attempted and it didn't take off despite a very credible host and participation from many members of the community.
Commerce Heights wrote: - All events in the sports which are established as part of the RL Olympic program—i.e., those sports which are listed in the Bye-law to Rule 45 of the RL Olympic Charter and whose international federations are members of the ASOIF or AIOWF—must be included as medal events.
- Additional sports may be proposed in a host bid as medal events. Each such sport must be individually approved by a vote of the Olympic Council, which will take place at the same time as the host vote. A host bid may not be made contingent on the inclusion of any additional sport.
- During the year of the RL Games of the Olympiad, additional sports which are being contested at those RL Games may be included without a vote of the Olympic Council.
There are two conflicting realism issues here. Is it more realistic to follow the rule and give hosts up to 5 events at their discretion to award medals in, which opens up the (unrealistic) possibility of medals being awarded in sports that aren't recognized by the IOC? And when the point of that rule change doesn't really apply here, as Taeshan points out?
But I think these 3 points are good ideas. We move towards setting up the "core" Olympic events which always take place, and allow for a small number of medal events that vary year to year. In this sense we would follow the principle of the IOC's change, despite the intent of attracting more local ticket sales not really being a relevant concern for us. As an alternative, my keep-it-simple suggestion would be to augment the existing base list/extended list system and place any event confirmed as a medal event for the next RL Olympics onto the extended list. This gives hosts the option of including none, some, or all as medal events or not. I suppose this would be the more strict "follow the real thing" version.