An LA2028 signal is seen on the Los Angeles Coliseum to have a good time Los Angeles being awarded the 2028 Olympic Video games, in Los Angeles, California, US. — Reuters/File
KARACHI: The Worldwide Olympic Committee has accredited the occasion programme for the 2028 Los Angeles Video games which may also characteristic cricket with six groups competing in each males’s and girls’s format.
As per the approval by OIC’s Govt Board on Wednesday, a quota of whole 90 athletes has been allotted for every gender, permitting each staff to call a 15-member squad.
Cricket has truly been a part of the Olympics when England took on France in a “one-off” match in Paris with the previous successful the gold again in 1900.
The venues set to host cricket fixtures in LA 2028 are but to be confirmed. The schedule will likely be finalised nearer to the Video games.
Cricket is among the many 5 new sports activities be a part of the Olympic roster underneath LA28’s host metropolis provisions. Different sports activities embody baseball/softball, flag soccer, lacrosse and squash.
Every of those sports activities will characteristic six groups besides squash, which debuts with 16-player attracts for each women and men.
The 3×3 basketball match expands from eight to 12 groups per gender following its profitable Tokyo 2020 introduction.
The Los Angeles Video games will run from July 14-30, 2028, that includes competitions throughout Southern California venues together with the brand new Inglewood Stadium that may host swimming occasions. Organisers anticipate the expanded programme to take care of athlete numbers whereas providing extra medal alternatives and larger gender steadiness than earlier editions.
Moreover, the OIC additionally confirmed a document 351 medal occasions throughout 36 sports activities. A complete of 11,198 athletes — comprising 5,655 girls and 5,543 males — will compete, marking important progress towards gender equality in Olympic participation.
Aquatics will provide 55 medal occasions whereas athletics will characteristic 48, sustaining their standing as cornerstone Olympic sports activities. The swimming programme expands to incorporate new 50-metre races in backstroke, butterfly and breaststroke for each genders.
Different sports activities seeing new occasions embody rowing, which provides coastal seashore sprints, and sport climbing the place boulder and lead competitions will now be separate medal occasions.
Soccer makes historical past with an expanded 16-team girls’s match surpassing the 12-team males’s competitors.
Water polo achieves gender parity by including two girls’s groups to match the 12-team males’s occasion. The programme contains 25 mixed-gender occasions, with new additions in archery, athletics, golf, gymnastics, rowing and desk tennis.
The IOC maintained its baseline of 10,500 athletes whereas allocating an extra 698 quota locations for the brand new sports activities. With 161 girls’s occasions, 165 males’s occasions and 25 blended occasions, LA28 represents the closest the Olympics has come to full gender parity in its competitors programme. Boxing completes the equality push by including a girls’s weight class to match the lads’s divisions. Â
