Summer Olympic Games Los Angeles 2028 Sports Programme Road to LA 2028

[Olympian1010 7,946]

46 minutes ago, mpjmcevoy said:

Afghanistan beat England today at the World Cup. Netherlands are also in the last 10. Neither, to the best of my knowledge, a former British colony.

Cricket fans love citing Netherlands as a competitive nation, but I’m not sure they’ve played a competitive game yet at the current ICC World Cup.

 

They haven’t faired much better in baseball, but the sport is almost certainly more global, even if it too is limited to a few hot spots.

[Siddhartha Talukdar 229]

7 hours ago, Olympian1010 said:

Cricket fans love citing Netherlands as a competitive nation, but I’m not sure they’ve played a competitive game yet at the current ICC World Cup.

 

They haven’t faired much better in baseball, but the sport is almost certainly more global, even if it too is limited to a few hot spots.

Generally its rare to have an upset in longer format like ODI and Test because there enough time for the superior team to apply themselves if they are behind in a match. Upsets occur frequently in T20 because a match can turn on a brilliant individual performance. In 2022 World Cup, both Ireland and Scotland beat West Indies. Ireland later defeated the eventual champions England. Zimbabwe defeated Pakistan and lost to Bangladesh by measly 3 runs. Similarly, Netherlands defeated South Africa which South Africa had to win to qualify for the semis

[El Analyzer 190]

the inclusion of the 5 proposed sports became official now, just curious to know who are the 2 members voted against 

[Siddhartha Talukdar 229]

Baseball/softball, cricket (T20), flag football, lacrosse (sixes) and squash are included in 2028 programme. Can anyone tell when the number of quotas be announced

 

[El Analyzer 190]

quoted from insidethegames website "The elimination of the fencing ranking round is confirmed for modern pentathlon at the Los Angeles 2028 Olympics"

 

 

what does this mean, any idea what would be the new format? ..only fencing bonus round?

[El Analyzer 190]

from Egyptian Facebook sports page, athletes numbers increased to 11092 !! ..not 11100 not 11000 athletes ! ...very precise number ... but don't know from where they got the info

[phelps 7,636]

1 hour ago, Siddhartha Talukdar said:

Baseball/softball, cricket (T20), flag football, lacrosse (sixes) and squash are included in 2028 programme. Can anyone tell when the number of quotas be announced

 

792 in total for the new sports

[phelps 7,636]

46 minutes ago, El Analyzer said:

from Egyptian Facebook sports page, athletes numbers increased to 11092 !! ..not 11100 not 11000 athletes ! ...very precise number ... but don't know from where they got the info

that was the final number of participants in Tokyo 

[phelps 7,636]

51 minutes ago, El Analyzer said:

quoted from insidethegames website "The elimination of the fencing ranking round is confirmed for modern pentathlon at the Los Angeles 2028 Olympics"

 

 

what does this mean, any idea what would be the new format? ..only fencing bonus round?

most likely, they will get back to a shorter version of the old fencing round (being the athletes divided in smaller groups for the semis and the final, it wouldn't take much time to have a single round robin...with 12-(wo)man groups, it's only 11 rounds of 1 minute-match on 6 pistes, let's say 55 mins in total)

[mpjmcevoy 362]

5 hours ago, Siddhartha Talukdar said:

Generally its rare to have an upset in longer format like ODI and Test because there enough time for the superior team to apply themselves if they are behind in a match. Upsets occur frequently in T20 because a match can turn on a brilliant individual performance. In 2022 World Cup, both Ireland and Scotland beat West Indies. Ireland later defeated the eventual champions England. Zimbabwe defeated Pakistan and lost to Bangladesh by measly 3 runs. Similarly, Netherlands defeated South Africa which South Africa had to win to qualify for the semis

Not to mention the fact that World Champions or the equivalent (champions trophy) have come from every continent, not something Baseball could ever dream of - The Americas, Africa, Europe, Asia and Oceania all have produced global winners. The problem with saying "It's only British colonies" is that former British colonies span 5 continents, contain a quarter of all the NOCs in existence and over a quarter of the entire global population. Unless you're soccer, if your sport is 'only' doing well throughout the British colonies, it's doing damn well!