Cricket or flag football at the Olympics? This has been a reality since last Monday and the announcement by the International Olympic Committee of the five additional sports at the 2028 Olympic Games. A program with a strong American flavor for the Games which will be held in Los Angeles four years after Paris. With baseball/softball, lacrosse (where you use a stick to put a ball into the opponent’s goal) and squash, the Olympic menu is necessarily aimed at the US market, or even Indian where cricket is the king of sport.
One baseball club, three squash clubs in Haute-Savoie
And in Haute-Savoie, what is the place of these still very confidential sports? “As far as cricket and lacrosse are concerned, there is no club in the department,” notes Thierry Coulon, president of the departmental Olympic and sports committee 74, a territory where football (29,511), skiing ( 20,978) and tennis (18,500) have the largest number of licensees.
“Concretely, if people are competent to do…
2023-10-22 17:21:58
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