Jingbao Sports | Reporter Deng Fangjia
After 28 major events have been identified, a few days ago, the Los Angeles Olympic Organizing Committee invited nine events, including flag football, cricket, karate, baseball and softball, stick tennis, break dancing, free fighting, squash and automobile and motorcycle sports, to become candidate events for the 2028 Los Angeles Olympic Games. However, which projects can finally break through will not be announced until the IOC plenary session in 2023.
Among these events, cricket and motorcycles made their last appearance in the Olympic Games in 1900, and baseball and softball missed the Paris Olympics after a brief return to the 2020 Tokyo Olympics. Karate made its debut at the Tokyo Olympics, but it was not included in the Paris Olympics. Break dancing became an official event for the first time at the Paris Olympics. Stick tennis became an official Olympic event in 1904 and 1908, and was listed as a performance event in the three Olympic Games in 1928, 1932 and 1948. Waist flag rugby became an Olympic performance in 1904 and 1932; Free fighting and squash have never entered the Olympic Games.
Recently, flag football has attracted much attention in China. As a simplified version of American football equipment, it is attracting more and more people to participate because of its low threshold, light equipment and low confrontation. At the 2022 World Games, flag rugby became an official event. In the United States, where the rugby atmosphere is strong, the flag rugby is considered to be very promising to be on the stage of the Los Angeles Olympic Games.
Cricket, as a very popular sport in Commonwealth countries, has a good foundation and influence on a global scale. It is reported that the Los Angeles Olympic Organizing Committee and the International Olympic Committee will cooperate with international individual sports organizations in the next few months to evaluate each project according to the evaluation criteria.
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