The IOC knows how to look ahead and renews itself: more and more space at the Olympics for new sports, which young people and TVs like. In fact, in Tokyo 2020 full success for skateboarding, surfing and climbing. All three confirmed for Paris 2024 where breakdance will make its debut, and here too guaranteed success. Now we are looking at Los Angeles 2028 and Brisbane 2032. A decision on new sports “for the LA 2028 Olympics is expected soon,” said an official of one of the running sports. The president of the International Federation of American Football (IFAF) Pierre Trochet, in fact, declared during a press conference that “we expect a decision from the organizers of Los Angeles 2028 already in the coming weeks”. Flag football is one of nine sports in the running along with cricket, baseball – softball, lacrosse, breaking , karate, kickboxing, squash and motorsport.The organizers of LA 2028 have the right to decide which sports to add to the Games programme, even if this decision must then be ratified by the IOC (which could decide in its session in Mumbai, India, between 15 and October 17.) Of the sports on the US candidate short list, flag football has never appeared in an Olympic Games, while cricket has appeared only once in 1900 (possibly back in Brisbane 2023, more than in 2028 although recently there have been problems in Great Britain where it is widespread). Softball was included in every Summer Olympics between 1996 and 2008, before returning to Tokyo 2020 along with baseball. It is possible that it also returns to the United States. Lacrosse was chosen as the official event in two very distant Olympics, in 1904 and 1908, and is still not widespread in some countries while breakdance, as mentioned, will make its debut in Paris 2024 with excellent hopes of being confirmed for four years After. Karate made its debut at Tokyo 2020, but it wasn’t included in next year’s Paris program and it’s a strange choice because the French are strong in this discipline. Kickboxing and squash have never been present at the Summer Olympics, while motor racing has only had one appearance, it is not known how official, in 1900. Now it would be the turn of the Electric Formula. But it is not easy. Other sports such as bowls aspire to enter the Olympic program but they need to be spread to all continents. There are ancient disciplines that are instead under discussion by the IOC such as boxing, modern pentathlon and weightlifting. In the middle there are doping and corruption, but for LA 2028 it should still be in the program, perhaps with fewer athletes, then we’ll see.
Paris 2024: 11 blue disciplines already qualified, seven crews in sailing
The sailing world championships gave the Italia Team the last two passes for the Paris 2024 Games. The protagonists in the waters of The Hague (Holland) were Carolina Albano and Lorenzo Brando Chiavarini, who finished the ten preliminary regattas in the ninth and in sixth place respectively in ILCA 6 and ILCA 7. The two blues conquered one of the five-circle quotas reserved for the best sixteen yachts by gender. The Dutch world championship, therefore, has allowed seven Italian crews to secure the card for Paris 2024. The Azzurri qualified for the Paris 2024 Games are currently 34 (18 men, 16 women) in 11 disciplines.
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