Cricket’s bid for an Olympic spot obtained a jolt when it was excluded from the provisional record of 28 sports activities for the 2028 Los Angeles Games, together with three different sports activities, by the International Olympic Committee (IOC).
Cricket, which has featured on the Olympics simply as soon as in 1900 Paris Games, weightlifting and trendy pentathlon have didn’t make the minimize for the LA Games on Thursday.
The IOC has given boxing and weightlifting federations 18 months time to set their home with a view to be thought of for the LA Games as these sport was tormented by problems with corruption and doping.
In trendy pentathlon’s case, the Olympic physique has requested it to take away equestrian leaping from the occasion.
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Athletics, archery, badminton, basketball, tennis and wrestling are among the sports activities which have been provisionally added to the Los Angeles Olympics programme.
In 1990 Paris Games, cricket made its maiden and solely look the place it was performed between simply two nations.
Besides Olympics, the opposite multi-sport wherein cricket featured was solely within the 1998 Commonwealth Games.
Cricket, nonetheless, will make its return to the Commonwealth Games in subsequent 12 months’s Birmingham CWG within the type of a girls’s Twenty20 occasion.
In August this 12 months, the ICC had began preparations for cricket’s inclusion within the Olympics.
But the IOC takes into consideration a sport’s recognition, price, complexity, uniqueness and relevance in direction of younger individuals as elements earlier than together with them within the Olympic programme.
The ICC, cricket’s governing physique, at the moment has 12 full members and 94 affiliate members.
Skateboarding, browsing and sports activities climbing, which made profitable Olympic debuts in Tokyo, have managed to retain their spots.
The provisional record of 28 sports activities shall be submitted for approval on the IOC session in February subsequent 12 months.
