Nine sports were competed in at the first Olympic Games. The number of sports competed in the Summer Olympic Games has gradually increased to twenty-eight since then. The Tokyo Olympics featured 339 events in 33 different sports, covering 50 disciplines in all.
To begin, a sport must be regulated by an International Federation that agrees to obey the standards of the Olympic Charter, which is a prerequisite for IOC accreditation. It must also be extensively practiced over the world and meet a number of conditions. After that, if the IOC Session accepts it, the IOC Executive Board may recommend that a recognized sport be added to the Games schedule.
A sport or discipline must be extensively practiced in at least 75 nations across four continents to be eligible for inclusion in the list of Summer Olympics sports. The International Cricket Council (ICC) has confirmed that a working group has been formed to bid for cricket’s inclusion in the 2028 Olympics, which will be held in Los Angeles.
The International Cricket Council (ICC) has confirmed its determination to continue pushing for cricket’s inclusion in the Olympic Games, launching preparations for a bid on behalf of the sport, with the primary goal of including the sport in the Los Angeles Olympic Games. Itinerary for 2028 in Los Angeles. “Our sport is unified behind this proposal,” ICC chairman Greg Barkley said in a statement on Tuesday. “And we see the Olympics/as a part of cricket’s long-term future.” We have over a billion supporters throughout the world, and nearly 90% of them want to see cricket at the Olympics. “Clearly, cricket has a large and devoted fan base, particularly in South Asia, where 92 percent of our fans are from, and in the United States, where there are 30 million cricket fans.”
There has been a concentrated effort to promote cricket. participate in recent global sporting events It has already been confirmed for the 2022 Commonwealth Games, and in April, the two boards that have previously expressed doubts about cricket’s inclusion in the Olympics—the ECB and the BCCI—joined forces to make room for the possibility while planning the 2023-2031 international schedule. Despite the fact that no format has been decided, so far, cricket has only made one appearance at the Olympic Games.
Cricket’s journey to its Olympic debut was long and winding. It was supposed to be part of the first modern Olympic Games in Athens in 1895, but it was abandoned due to a shortage of participation. It made its Paris debut four years later. The event was set to feature cricket teams from the United Kingdom, France, the Netherlands, and Belgium. Unfortunately, once their ambition to co-host the Olympics was rejected, both the Netherlands and Belgium withdrew from cricket. As a result, the match between the United Kingdom and France was cricket’s first and, as far as we know, last contest.