Cricket, breakdancing and flag soccer are nonetheless ready to search out out if they are going to be added to the 2028 Los Angeles Olympics.
The course of so as to add sports activities that organizers in Los Angeles need on the 2028 Games was unexpectedly delayed Wednesday by the International Olympic Committee.
The IOC cited “ongoing discussions” with L.A. officers as the problem — a transparent rift between the 2 sides — regardless of the timetable being recognized for years and solely two days earlier than a key assembly to let 9 candidate sports activities know which is about to get Olympic standing.
As a outcome, the IOC-appointed panel learning sports activities program adjustments “has not yet had the opportunity to hold its meeting to prepare its final recommendation.”
On Friday, the Olympic physique’s govt board was scheduled to suggest which of the 9 sports activities would be a part of the core occasions. The candidates are cricket, baseball-softball, flag soccer, lacrosse, breaking, karate, kickboxing, squash and motorsports.
The IOC board additionally was scheduled to provide readability on the unsure Olympic futures for boxing, trendy pentathlon and weightlifting past their appearances on the 2024 Paris Games. Although the ultimate choice rests with the IOC members, who will meet from Oct. 15-17 in Mumbai, India, that may sometimes be a formality to rubber stamp the board’s place.
India has lengthy appeared the perfect setting to convey cricket — in its shortened T20 format — again to the Olympics for the primary time since its solely look on the 1900 Paris Games. An India-Pakistan cricket match on the Olympics may ship the largest international tv viewers of any occasion.
Breaking, the official identify of breakdancing, is prone to be retained in 2028 forward of its broadly anticipated debut in Paris subsequent yr.
The IOC gave no new timetable Wednesday for selections, saying that “the sports program for the Olympic Games LA28 will be discussed during a later IOC (board) meeting, to take place at a date to be decided.”
Source: www.perthnow.com.au
