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

[Siddhartha Talukdar 263]

7 minutes ago, mpjmcevoy said:

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!

Actually many sports were spread by British expats especially football. Prominent clubs like AC Milan, Genoa,Newell's Old Boys, FC Barcelona, Mohun Bagan were founded by British expats. Interestingly, many of the founding clubs were football and cricket clubs but somehow football gained popularity but cricket didn't.
Cricket remained popular only in the former colonies, but now is hugely popular in the Indian subcontinent. The cricket teams in the lesser countries like USA, Canada, Italy, UAE are almost made up of South Asian expats or origin

[mpjmcevoy 377]

48 minutes ago, Siddhartha Talukdar said:

Actually many sports were spread by British expats especially football. Prominent clubs like AC Milan, Genoa,Newell's Old Boys, FC Barcelona, Mohun Bagan were founded by British expats. Interestingly, many of the founding clubs were football and cricket clubs but somehow football gained popularity but cricket didn't.
Cricket remained popular only in the former colonies, but now is hugely popular in the Indian subcontinent. The cricket teams in the lesser countries like USA, Canada, Italy, UAE are almost made up of South Asian expats or origin

The codification and export of sports is one of the few positive legacies of Empire. The rest was utterly crap, but the sports they've left are quite a lot of fun.

[El Analyzer 316]

for the new sports when we are going to know number of athletes, number of quotas per NOCs, number of medal events, general format ...etc ...would it be today or at least some of them today?

 

[Siddhartha Talukdar 263]

23 minutes ago, El Analyzer said:

for the new sports when we are going to know number of athletes, number of quotas per NOCs, number of medal events, general format ...etc ...would it be today or at least some of them today?

 

For Squash, would like a 32 athlete singles tournament per gender with 2 per NOC if both in top 16 otherwise 1 per NOC

For Cricket would like to have an 8 team tournament with champions of Americas, Asia, Africa + Europe, East Asia Pacific (The smallest continental zone in ICC https://www.icc-cricket.com/about/members/east-asia-pacific), 1 team from Ranking/Host Nation, 2 from a qualification tournament.

[intoronto 6,887]

23 minutes ago, Siddhartha Talukdar said:

For Squash, would like a 32 athlete singles tournament per gender with 2 per NOC if both in top 16 otherwise 1 per NOC

For Cricket would like to have an 8 team tournament with champions of Americas, Asia, Africa + Europe, East Asia Pacific (The smallest continental zone in ICC https://www.icc-cricket.com/about/members/east-asia-pacific), 1 team from Ranking/Host Nation, 2 from a qualification tournament.

Cricket will have 6 team tournaments.

[phelps 8,687]

Squash = 32 women, 32 men tournaments = 64 quota places

 

Cricket = 6 teams / tournament = total 12 teams, 15 players each team = 180 quota places

 

Flag Football = 6 teams / tournament = total 12 teams, 11 players each team = 132 quota places

 

Lacrosse Sixies = 6 teams / tournament = total 12 teams, 11 players each team = 132 quota places

 

Softball = 6-team tournament, 15 players each team = 90 quota places

 

Baseball = 8-team tournament, 24 players each team = 192 quota places

 

Total = 790 quota places (which is about the number announced earlier this morning by the IOC)

Edited October 16, 2023 by phelps

[Vektor 3,326]

The real crime is that all of these sports get included, but tug of war is still not on the table.

 

Bring back tug of war, you fools!

[phelps 8,687]

1 minute ago, Vektor said:

The real crime is that all of these sports get included, but tug of war is still not on the table.

 

Bring back tug of war, you fools!

surely it would be more entertaining (and more "global") than flag football and lacrosse 

[mpjmcevoy 377]

17 minutes ago, Vektor said:

The real crime is that all of these sports get included, but tug of war is still not on the table.

 

Bring back tug of war, you fools!

You laugh, but wouldn't it be fabulous. Obviously nike would design a supershoe and a superglove...

[hckošice 16,605]

7 hours ago, El Analyzer said:

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

Tidjane Thiam (CIV) & William Blick (UGA)  Apparently, they were worried these team sports are not established enough in Africa... Go and figure

Edited October 16, 2023 by hckošice