Cricket is back in the Olympics with five sports added to the 2028 Los Angeles Games by the International Olympic Committee yesterday.
Flag football is in for a first time and baseball-softball, lacrosse and squash also made it, as sports proposed by Los Angeles officials and recommended by the IOC executive cleared a final hurdle yesterday from the full membership. All five were voted in by IOC members in Mumbai.
Cricket has Olympic status for the first time since 1900. That should raise the value of India’s broadcasting rights for the IOC by more than US$100 million (HK$778 million).
Flag football and baseball-softball should put NFL and MLB players on the Olympic stage in five years’ time.
Football in its full-contact form was a demonstration sport at the 1932 Los Angeles Games. Lacrosse was twice played at the Olympics, but squash debuts.
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