GENEVA, Oct. 9 (Xinhua) — The Los Angeles Olympic Organizing Committee has proposed 5 further sports activities to the Olympic Programme Commission, the International Olympic Committee (IOC) introduced on Monday.
Baseball-softball, cricket, flag soccer, lacrosse, and squash have been proposed for inclusion at Los Angeles 2028, and the Olympic Programme Commission will ship a suggestion to the IOC Executive Board. If accepted, it should then be introduced to the 141st IOC Session that shall be held in Mumbai, India on October 15-17.
Three sports activities — baseball-softball (1992-2008 and 2020), cricket (1900), and lacrosse (1904 and 1908) — appeared at earlier Games, whereas flag soccer (a limited-contact model of American soccer), and squash are new.
Considering the massive variety of athletes in crew sports activities, shorter and less-participant codecs shall be adopted at LA 28. Cricket shall be performed within the Twenty20 format, and Lacrosse Sixes was proposed.
Tokyo 2020 included baseball-softball, karate, skateboarding, sport climbing, browsing as further sports activities, whereas Paris 2024 will characteristic breaking, skateboarding, sport climbing, and browsing.