This Monday, the International Olympic Committee (IOC) approved in a plenary session the entry of cricket, squash, baseball/softball, lacrosse and flag-football (a variant of American football) in the program of the Los Angeles 2028 Games.
In Mumbai, India, the entry of the five modalities, which were voted together, received only two negative votes, from the approximately 90 representatives of the national committees present at the general assembly.
The registration of the five modalities was proposed by the organizers of the Los Angeles 2028 Olympic Games, and accepted by the IOC executive committee on Friday.
Of the five sports proposed by the organizers of Los Angeles 2028, cricket, the king of sports in India and practiced mainly in the Commonwealth countries, had already had a presence in the Olympic Games, in the 1900 edition, in Paris.
Baseball/softball will return to the Olympic program, since it will not be in Paris2024, after being played in Tokyo2020, as well as lacrosse, which was present in St. Louis1904 and London1908.
American football and squash, very popular in the United States, will debut at the Olympic Games.
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.
Thus, there will be 35 sports played in Los Angeles, a new record, and, in relation to Paris2024, only breaking will be left out, as had already been announced at the beginning of 2022.
Source: TSF
