Last Monday, the International Olympic Committee (IOC) approved during a plenary session the inclusion of cricket, squash, baseball/softball, lacrosse and flag football (a variant of American football) in the program for the 2028 Games in Los Angeles.
In Mumbai, India, the submission of the five modalities, which were voted on jointly, received only two negative votes from the approximately 90 representatives of the national committees present at the general meeting.
The participation of the five modalities was proposed by the organizers of the 2028 Olympic Games in Los Angeles and accepted on Friday by the IOC Executive Committee.
Of the five sports proposed by the organizers of Los Angeles2028, cricket, the king sport in India and played mainly in the Commonwealth countries, had already been present at the Olympic Games, during the 1900 edition, in Paris.
Baseball/softball will return to the Olympic program, as it will not be at Paris 2024, after being played at Tokyo 2020, as will lacrosse, which was present at St. Louis 1904 and London 1908.
Flag football and squash, very popular in the United States, will make their debut at the Olympics.
The presence of boxing, which does not yet have an international federation recognized by the IOC, will be decided later, unlike the modern pentathlon, which is expected to swap horse racing for an obstacle course, and weightlifting, once the executive committee proposed its inclusion. in Los Angeles2028.
For example, 35 sports are played in Los Angeles, a new record, and in relation to Paris 2024, only the breaking will be omitted, as was already announced at the beginning of 2022.
Source: DN
