Cricket, flag football among five sports approved for 2028 Olympics

Lacrosse, squash and baseball-softball had also been proposed for inclusion by LA Games organisers and received approval at an IOC meeting in Mumbai.

Cricket, which enjoys a massive following in India and has a fast-growing global audience, returns to the Games after more than a century, having appeared once at the 1900 Olympics, with a proposed six-team Twenty20 format for men and women.The IOC hopes cricket's inclusion will activate and engage a large, new Olympic audience, especially among Asian fans of the sport.

"We are convinced that flag football will offer an exciting new dimension to the Games - uniting them, for the first time in history, with America’s number one sport in its youngest, most accessible and inclusive format," said Pierre Trochet, head of the International Federation of American Football.

Lacrosse twice appeared as a medal sport at the Olympics, in 1904 and 1908, while squash had long pushed for inclusion, most recently in 2013 for the 2020 Olympics.

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