India’s Kuldeep Yadav celebrates the wicket of Pakistan’s Saud Shakeel in the course of the ICC Males’s Cricket World Cup match between India and Pakistan in Ahmedabad, India, Saturday, Oct. 14, 2023. (AP Photograph/Aijaz Rahi)
MUMBAI, India — Cricket is an Olympic sport once more. Flag soccer will get in for the primary time.
5 sports activities had been lastly added to the 2028 Los Angeles Video games by the Worldwide Olympic Committee on Monday with baseball-softball, lacrosse and squash additionally confirmed for this system.
The slate of sports activities proposed by Los Angeles officers one week in the past and really useful by the IOC govt board on Friday cleared a closing hurdle Monday from the Olympic physique’s full membership.
All 5 had been voted in as a single package deal with two “no” votes from about 90 IOC members within the room in Mumbai, India.
Cricket was elevated to Olympic standing for the primary time since 1900 in one of many hotpots of the game the place the IOC is holding annual conferences whereas India hosts the game’s World Cup.
Including cricket to the Olympic program is anticipated to boost the worth of India’s broadcasting rights for the IOC by greater than $100 million. The Olympic tournaments for women and men ought to every have six groups enjoying the shortened and dynamic Twenty20 format.
FILE – AFC extensive receiver Tyreek Hill (10) of the Miami Dolphins carries the ball in opposition to NFC cornerback Tariq Woolen (27) of the Seattle Seahawks and outdoors linebacker Za’Darius Smith (55) of the Minnesota Vikings in the course of the flag soccer occasion on the NFL Professional Bowl, Feb. 5, 2023, in Las Vegas. (AP Photograph/David Becker, File)
Flag soccer and baseball-softball ought to put NFL and MLB gamers on the Olympic stage in 5 years’ time.
Soccer in its full-contact kind was an illustration sport on the 1932 Olympics when Los Angeles first hosted the Summer time Video games.
“We wish LA 2028 to have the identical springboard impact for our 5 sports activities,” organizing committee chairman Casey Wasserman advised IOC members.
Lacrosse was twice performed on the Olympics, although not since 1908, and will likely be at LA in a six-a-side format. Squash will make its debut.
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There was no house for breakdance, which won’t return after making its Olympic debut in Paris subsequent 12 months.