The Olympic Games make a fresh start in Los Angeles 2028 after agreeing to add five sports.
Baseball/softball, cricket, flag football, lacrosse and squash were proposed by the LA28 Organizing Committee only for this edition of the Games and received formal approval from the CIO session in Mumbai, India.
As baseball/softball, cricket and lacrosse would quickly return to the Olympic program, LA28 marked the launch of flag football and squash into Olympic sports.
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Baseball (men’s) and softball (women’s) have all made a comeback on the Olympic program over the last ten years. Baseball as a sport developed from official medals to be played for the first time in Barcelona 1992, while softball debuted in Atlanta 1996. Both sports were on the program until Beijing 2008.
After being left out of London 2012 and Rio 2016, baseball/softball returned to Tokyo 2020 under sporting proposals put forward by the organizing committee. Canada won the bronze medal in softball, Canada’s first Olympic medal in one or other of these sports.
It has become necessary to go back more than a century to find the last time cricket and lacrosse were Olympic sports. Cricket originated in Paris in 1900, then lacrosse appeared in St. Louis in 1904 and in London in 1908. Canada has won two lacrosse championships that have had their share of what it pays. Defending his son’s Olympic champion title 120 years after the sport last attended the Olympic Games.
In 1904, this was club equipment that was part of the tournament, and it was actually the Winnipeg Shamrocks that became the contestants. The 1904 bronze medal was also awarded to Canada, won by a team of Haudenosaunee athletes from the Six Nations of the Grand River near Brantford, Ontario. Lacrosse’s original legacy as a sport represents an excellent choice for the Olympic Games organized in North America.
As in cricket, lacrosse will serve as updated variations. Introduction In 2003, Lu T20 cricket It is an additional version of the traditional corte de game. Instead of taking the day to complete, a T20 match can be enjoyable in two to three hours. Lacrosse sera fe le Six format (6v6), created in 2018 to accelerate the global growth of the sport.
Squash is already included in eight other multi-sport events, including the Pan American Games, where official medals have been contested since 1995, with Canada being the country with the most medals. The number of participants has increased dramatically over the past decade, especially in the United States. After years of efforts to become an Olympic sport, 2028 will finally be the time for squash to take its place on the world stage.
Given the popularity of the NFL, it is not surprising that a form of American football would be added to the Olympic Games held in America. The science of football, in the defensive team obliged to pull the curtains of balloons instead of plaques, counts the lives of more than 20 million players in more than 100 countries.
In Mumbai, the CIO Executive Committee approved the disciplines to be included in the various sports for LA28. One modification will be made regarding the disciplines of Paris 2024. Outdoor sprint racing will be included for the first time in the Olympic Games. Given the Indian name, the competition begins on the beach, and the current athletes move to the water’s edge. The slalom racer makes three pushes over 250 meters before throwing to return to shore and sail before embarking on a sprint to the reach line.
In order to add that this derivative of the sea bird will have made a significant development over the last decade, it will decline somewhat before that. LA28 Doesn’t include anything else before using small amounts of iron. Pair duet opportunities are lower for men and women than in the Olympic program since Atlanta 1996. The World Rowing Championships proposed three medal rounds for the seaside sprint: male solo, female solo and mixed pair.
The completed program of previous years and the athlete quotas for LA28 will be finalized after Paris 2024. The CIO intends to limit the number of athletes to 10,500, as well as certain flexibility to exceed this limit.
