Cricket may very well be within the Olympics for the primary time since 1900 after organisers beneficial it to be a part of the 2028 Los Angeles Video games.
Twenty20 cricket can be put ahead for approval to the Worldwide Olympic Committee for a vote subsequent week.
Flag soccer, a non-contact model of American soccer, and squash are set for his or her Olympic debuts in 2028.
The opposite suggestions are baseball/softball and lacrosse, which had been each neglected for Paris 2024.
“They’re related, progressive and community-based, performed in backyards, schoolyards, group centres, stadiums and parks throughout the US and the globe,” stated LA28 chairperson Casey Wasserman.
Worldwide Cricket Council chairman Greg Barclay stated: “Whereas this isn’t the ultimate determination, it’s a vital landmark in direction of seeing cricket on the Olympics for the primary time in additional than a century.”
The ultimate determination is ready to be made when Worldwide Olympic Committee members meet in Mumbai subsequent week.
There’s anticipated to be each a T20 males’s and ladies’s event on the LA Video games.
Host cities are in a position to suggest sports activities they want added to the Olympic programme once they stage the occasion.
Tokyo 2020’s organising committee was allowed so as to add browsing, sport climbing, karate, baseball/softball and skateboarding when it hosted the occasion.
Cricket’s solely earlier look on the Olympics was at Paris 1900, one among solely 18 sports activities on the time.
Nice Britain beat France within the ultimate – which was additionally the one match after the Netherlands and Belgium withdrew.
Both sides had 12 gamers, as a substitute of the standard 11, and it was performed with a Check format however over two days as a substitute of 5.
Nice Britain had been represented by the Devon and Somerset Wanderers, whereas the French group was made up principally of British residents dwelling in Paris.
The richest sports activities league on the earth, the Nationwide Soccer League – which governs American soccer – was a part of the flag soccer bid.
The NFL’s version of flag football is five-a-side, on a smaller pitch – 30 by 70 yards – and no contact is allowed.
As a substitute of tackling, gamers want to tug a flag off the individual with the ball.
Squash has been attempting to get into the Olympics for years. For Paris 2024, it was crushed by breakdancing. In Tokyo 2020, it misplaced out to climbing, browsing and skateboarding.
It was additionally rejected for London 2012 and Rio 2016.