Cricket amongst five new sports added to 2028 Olympics

IOC sports director Kit McConnell confirms the new five sports that will be a joining the Los Angeles Games

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00:00 So today we have the really exciting news that after the confirmation of the 28 sports

00:04 that the IOC had previously confirmed for Los Angeles, including skateboarding, surfing

00:09 and sport climbing, today we have the confirmation that the package of the five sports proposed

00:14 by Los Angeles was approved by the IOC session and now confirmed in the Games in LA.

00:19 Those five are baseball softball, flag football, cricket, lacrosse and squash.

00:24 Each of them brings a really different dynamic to the Games, team sports, in most cases individual

00:29 sport with squash, reaching out to different communities around the US and around the world.

00:35 So they really bring something individual from each of them but work together really

00:39 well as a package to supplement and work with the 28 sports we already have confirmed.

00:43 So it's super exciting to have the five confirmed and now looking forward to a more engaging

00:48 Games than ever in Los Angeles.