Baseball confirmed to return to 2028 LA Olympics... IOC general meeting approves 5 new sports
Modern pentathlon and weightlifting, which have made efforts to change, were finally included as official sports at the LA Olympics.
Baseball's return to the Olympics has been confirmed.
The International Olympic Committee (IOC) overwhelmingly voted to add five new sports proposed by the 2028 Los Angeles (LA) Olympic Organizing Committee and approved by the IOC Executive Committee at the 141st General Assembly held in Mumbai, India on the 16th (local time). did. 카지노사이트
Only two IOC members out of 90 who voted opposed the adoption of the five sports of baseball, softball, squash, flag football, cricket, and lacrosse as official sports for the 2028 LA Olympics.
As a result, baseball will be held at the 2020 Tokyo Olympics held in 2021, and baseball, which was excluded from the 2024 Paris Olympics, will return to the Olympics after 7 years.
Considering that the 2028 LA Olympics will be held in the United States, which prides itself on being the home of baseball, it is already attracting a lot of attention as it is predicted that Major League Baseball (MLB) players will participate in the Olympics as representatives of their countries.
Until now, the MLB Secretariat has not allowed major leaguers to participate in the Olympics held during the regular season.
Cricket, which has over 2.5 billion fans around the world, returns to the Olympics for the first time in 128 years since the 1900 Paris Olympics, and lacrosse is held at the Olympics for the third time since the 1904 St. Louis Games and the 1908 London Games.
As cricket, loved by the people of India, which boasts a population comparable to that of China, becomes an official Olympic sport, the IOC is expected to earn a huge amount of income from broadcasting rights.
The Associated Press estimated that the Olympic broadcasting rights fees for Indian broadcasters alone will exceed $100 million.
Flag football and squash, which are popular in the United States, will make their Olympic debut.
Since four of the five new sports are team events, the number of athletes participating in the 2028 LA Olympics is expected to naturally increase.
The IOC limited the number of athletes participating in the 2020 Tokyo Olympics and the 2024 Paris Olympics to 15,000, but the number is expected to increase to 11,000 for the 2028 LA Olympics.
The IOC General Assembly also approved the adoption of modern pentathlon and weightlifting, which were omitted from the 28 basic sports at the LA Olympics, as official sports.
Prior to the General Assembly decision, the IOC Executive Committee made several efforts to reduce costs, such as the International Modern Pentathlon Federation replacing equestrian events with obstacle races, and the World Weightlifting Federation made changes such as delegating doping management to an independent organization, the International Testing Agency (ITA).
He said that he pursued and submitted to the general meeting the opinion of including the two sports as official events in the 2028 LA Olympics.