Flag football and cricket were among five sports that took their next step toward inevitably being added to the 2028 Los Angeles Olympics
Flag football and cricket were among five sports that took their next step Friday toward inevitably being added to the 2028 Los Angeles Olympics. The International Olympic Committee executive board recommended all five sports — including baseball-softball, lacrosse and squash — that were formally requested Monday by organizers of the LA Games. The final elevation to the 2028 program should come Monday at a meeting of about 100 IOC members who typically rubberstamp the board’s views.
Olympic leaders arrived in India this week just as the country began hosting the men’s Cricket World Cup. Games at that tournament are played in a longer one-day format. Bach praised flag football for growing in popularity globally “in particular among girls and women.” “With flag football you are avoiding some of the challenges with injuries that American football is facing,” he said. Lacrosse, Bach said, is “the sport, if I may say, of the First Nations of the U.S.
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