Baseball-softball, cricket and flag football were among five sports added to the program for the 2028 Los Angeles Games on Monday after being approved by the International Olympic Committee as it looks to tap into new global audiences.
Lacrosse and squash also were approved at an IOC meeting in Mumbai, having been proposed by 2028 organizers.
The IOC session also approved the inclusion of modern pentathlon, after the international federation replaced horse riding with an obstacle running course following a scandal at the Tokyo Olympics where a coach struck a horse that refused to jump a fence. Cricket, which enjoys a massive following in India and has a fast growing global audience, returns to the Games after more than a century, having appeared once at the 1900 Olympics, with a proposed six-team Twenty20 format — a short format of the game — for women and men.
The IOC hopes cricket's inclusion will activate and engage a large, new Olympic audience, with the sport's worldwide fan base estimated at 2.5 billion people. "We are convinced that flag football will offer an exciting new dimension to the Games -- uniting them, for the first time in history, with America’s number one sport in its youngest, most accessible and inclusive format," said Pierre Trochet, head of the International Federation of American Football.
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