Baseball would return to the Olympic Games in Los Angeles in 2028

The proposal that the 2028 Los Angeles Games should include baseball/softball, cricket, lacrosse, squash and flag football (‘tocho’) in the program, formulated by the organizing committee, would avoid the dizziness of successive admissions and exclusions suffered by the former of had, extend. would allow the latter two to debut as Olympians and would return cricket and lacrosse to the Games more than a century after their last appearance.

The list must be validated by the IOC Executive Commission, which will meet from next Thursday in Bombay (India), and then submitted for approval to the body’s session, which starts next Sunday in the same city.

Additional sports would be added to the basic core of the program, which currently consists of athletics, rowing, badminton, basketball, canoeing, cycling, horse riding, fencing, football, golf, gymnastics, handball, hockey, judo, wrestling, swimming, rugby , taekwondo, tennis, table tennis, shooting, archery, triathlon, sailing, volleyball, surfing, skateboarding and climbing.

Source: El heraldo

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