This is an excerpt from The Buzzer, which is CBC Sports' daily email newsletter. Stay up to speed on what's happening in sports by subscribing here. The International Olympic Committee has officially added five sports to the program for the 2028 Summer Games in Los Angeles.
Flag football, cricket, lacrosse, squash and baseball/softball were proposed by the local organizing committee a week ago, then recommended by the IOC executive board on Friday before receiving the final seal of approval today from the full membership at a meeting in Mumbai, India.
Each of these new Olympic sports comes with its own backstory — starting with the fact that most of them are not actually new to the Olympics.
Cricket was played at the 1900 Games in Paris (where the "tournament" consisted of one match between a club from France and a club from Great Britain) before disappearing from the Olympics for more than a century, even as its global popularity soared.