Cricket, flag football, squash and lacrosse also at 2028 Games‘It is very attractive for LA and the Olympic movement’
Cricket has been approved for the Los Angeles Olympics by the International Olympic Committee’s executive board, with the IOC’s president, Thomas Bach, hailing the news as a “win-win” for all sides. Four other sports proposed by LA organisers – flag football, squash, baseball/softball and lacrosse – were also approved in Mumbai on Friday, and will now go to the IOC session this weekend for a vote, which will be a formality.
Bach revealed that the LA 2028 organising committee chief, Casey Wasserman, had needed very little persuading of cricket’s merits and had brought the idea of its inclusion up during a meal at the World Athletics Championships in Eugene, Oregon, last year.
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