Cricket is an Olympic sport again.
‘It’s good to be home’: All members of Fernandina Beach church group arrive safely in States from Middle EastIndia's Kuldeep Yadav celebrates the wicket of Pakistan's Saud Shakeel during the ICC Men's Cricket World Cup match between India and Pakistan in Ahmedabad, India, Saturday, Oct. 14, 2023. Five sports were finally added to the 2028 Los Angeles Games by the International Olympic Committee on Monday with baseball-softball, lacrosse and squash also confirmed for the program.
The decision to elevate cricket to Olympic status for the first time since 1900 was made in one of the hotpots of the sport where the IOC is meeting while Football in its full-contact form was a demonstration sport at the 1932 Olympics when Los Angeles first hosted the Summer Games. Two members from Africa, Tidjane Thiam of Ivory Coast and William Blick of Uganda, expressed concern about how the fact that the sports added Monday are not played much on the continent.
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