Summer Olympic Games Los Angeles 2028 Sports Programme

[De_Gambassi 896]

How many athletes do you need to run two 6-teams cricket tournaments ?

[Roamingrover86 469]

We are looking at around 108 athletes in each gender for a 6 team tournament. 
Say around 216 athletes for both genders, if its a 6 team tourney. 

[phelps 6,893]

1 hour ago, De_Gambassi said:

How many athletes do you need to run two 6-teams cricket tournaments ?

 

44 minutes ago, Roamingrover86 said:

We are looking at around 108 athletes in each gender for a 6 team tournament. 
Say around 216 athletes for both genders, if its a 6 team tourney. 

even less...

 

with the T20 format, it's 15 players each team (the 2/3 stand-by players could be "outside village" guys, like the fencing teams' reserves, and become official players only if and when they replace someone else), so 90 per gender for a 6-team tournament (which would be a farce, I hope they have at least 8 -2 groups of 4 + semis and medal matches, just to give the tournament a fair development)

 

so, officially it could be 180 or 240 total players (depending if it's a 6 or 8-team tournament, both genders included)

[Dragon 1,702]

Rumours are that cricket will miss out for 2028 but baseball/softball and flag football will win a place.

Flag football must be considered a surprise.

[intoronto 4,252]

23 minutes ago, Dragon said:

Rumours are that cricket will miss out for 2028 but baseball/softball and flag football will win a place.

Flag football must be considered a surprise.

Where are the quotas going to come for. We are going to have like 4 entries for some events

[De_Gambassi 896]

1 hour ago, intoronto said:

Where are the quotas going to come for. We are going to have like 4 entries for some events

Unless, they have changed the rules again. And the additional sports don't count in the 10,500 athletes limit.

[Laraja 1,371]

3 hours ago, Dragon said:

Rumours are that cricket will miss out for 2028 but baseball/softball and flag football will win a place.

Flag football must be considered a surprise.

Breaking is out then? It would be a surprise for me, once is the berth of this

[Dragon 1,702]

1 hour ago, Laraja said:

Breaking is out then? It would be a surprise for me, once is the berth of this

I'm now being told breaking will be in for 2028 as well.

[Cinnamon Bun 388]

If your source(s) are correct, they've really missed a trick leaving off Cricket. The amount of revenue it would generate would put it up there with the likes of Football and Athletics, and with the new league starting up in America (that's already attracting a few big name international players) the sport could be way more popular come 2028. Also, the T20 format is really easy to follow and leads to some exciting matches that would get people from non cricketing countries wanting to go. 

 

Baffled by the decision to keep Breaking. The sport maybe a bit exciting at first but I don't think it has legs to go far and could end up being one of the least profitable sports at every games' it's included. 

 

Finally, if the IOC want to include more team sports they need to increase the athlete quota by 1,500 - 2,000. Other sports are being bled dry and team sports themselves, existing and the ones coming in, are being extremely limited as to how many countries are competing.  

[Noorderling29 108]

It’s hard to understand for Cricket lovers how boring and incomprehensible Cricket is to most people. I say this as someone who enjoys Cricket.