increase the chances that they will be included in the Olympic Games program in the future. Olympic Sports played in other formats Twelve sports that are part of the current Olympic program (athletics, badminton, 3x3 basketball, football, hockey, karate, roller sports, rowing, shooting, swimming, water polo and taekwondo) are in this edition's program, however, some of them will be played in formats that are not part of the Olympic Games. Among these, three are new sports (badminton, shooting, and volleyball). Although they are part of the Asian Games programme too, the organizing committee will revamp the events to differ from current Asian Games programme. Badminton events will be reduced from 7 to 3. The number of events in the shooting will also drop from 20 to just 5,only the pistol events (10 and 25 meters) are scheduled to be held. Changes will also happen in volleyball tournaments. Each participating team will be able to register 12 athletes, however, up to 3 athletes may be over 23 years old. This measure was taken due to the congestion of the sport calendar in 2021, as the event was scheduled to coincides to the FIVB Volleyball Nations League first three weeks. Another specific case is that of sepak takraw, after 12 years hiatus the sport will be back on the program. As the national sport of Thailand, the format of the competitions and the number of events at the last Asian Games will be maintained. In addition, the four events that were excluded from Jakarta will be back, along the hoop, it is expected that five new mixed events will be added to the program. Participating National Olympic Committees On July 16, 2020, the National Olympic Committee of Thailand announced that it proposed to the Olympic Council of Asia (OCA) to open the event for athletes from the 24 National Olympic Committees from the Oceania National Olympic Committees (ONOC). The proposal was accepted without any reservations by the OCA and the ONOC, as they proved the success on the 2017 Games held in Ashgabat and 2017 Sapporo Winter Games. The three stakeholders are planning to authorize the registration of athletes in 16 individual sports as integral part of the games. The numbers in parenthesis represents the number of participants entered. Notes Calendar All dates are ICT (UTC+7) Marketing Emblem The emblem of the 2021 Asian Indoor and Martial Arts Games is inspired by