Berlin - The Executive Committee of the International Olympic Committee (IOC) agreed Thursday in Berlin to select golf and rugby sevens as sports to be proposed for the 2016 Olympics at the next IOC Session in October.

Baseball, softball, squash, karate and roller sports failed to make the selection and will not be put forward for ratification by the full 106-member IOC assembly in Copenhagen. The IOC Executive Committee also decided to allow women's boxing for the first time at the London Olympics in 2012. (dpa)