Summer Olympics 2024

[bakasabo]

Football is included in Olympics but there is rule that only young players i.e. players with age less then 23 are allowed to play. If cricket is included in upcoming Olympics then is there any such criteria or it's same like ICC tournaments.

That is a nice rule that only young players are allowed to play football. Otherwise if they allow all stars to participate, olympic games will be flooded with football fans, leaving rest disciplines without spectators or few of them. It will make Olympic games “Olympic football games and the rest or sport”. I even read somewhere, that Olympic games lose popularity. Fewer and fewer spectators watch sports. Lots of empty seats on the stadiums.

[hosseinimr93]

just in case someone might get confused so I want to clarify some things up, flag football is the one that is included in the 2028 Olympics, not football.

We will have both football and flag football in 2028 summer olympics.

That is a nice rule that only young players are allowed to play football. Otherwise if they allow all stars to participate, olympic games will be flooded with football fans, leaving rest disciplines without spectators or few of them.

It's FIFA that doesn't allow players over 23 years old (with three exceptions) to participate in olympic games, not IOC. That's because FIFA doesn't want there's a football tournament that can compete with the world cup.

[acroman08]

just in case someone might get confused so I want to clarify some things up, flag football is the one that is included in the 2028 Olympics, not football.

We will have both football and flag gootball in 2028 summer olympics. 

crap! I think I misunderstood WatChe. I thought he was talking about american football that's why I mentioned flag football. I'm sorry, my bad. 😂

anyway, yeah, football and flag football will be in the 2028 Olympics.

[Haunebu]

Looks like the controversy riddled Paris Olympics got even more controversial thanks to something crazy that I wasn't aware of. Seems that some Netherlands volleyball player was allowed to play despite getting convicted for rape of a 12 year old girl in the past.

Absolute insanity! Have no idea what brainless Netherlands government and IOC were thinking when they gave this filth such a big opportunity. These people are easily some of the dumbest people on the planet.

[virasog]

Really looking forward to Cricket in the LA Olympics 2028 being a big fan of Cricket myself. It's been added after 128 freaking years which is a long time and really odd considering how popular it is globally.

The USA Cricket stadiums are decent at best and need to be upgraded heavily before the Olympics kicks off after 4 years. Let's see what happens.

Is cricket being approved to be included in the next Olympics and even if it does, how many teams would be participating? What format of cricket will be included in Olympics? Due to a shortage of time, I think it should be T20.
By the way, the next Olympics in the US and we recently had a World Cup in the United States, so we already have stadiums there but what will happen in future when the Olympics is hosted in such a country where they have no cricket grounds and infrastructure?

[ChiBitCTy]

What a fun olympics we had this summer!  I always look forward to the olympics.  Sure it's great to bet on, but I also enjoy the competition and some of my favorite sports such as basketball and track and field. 

It looks like to close out the Olympics the US and China tied for 1st when it comes to gold medals, both having won 40 a piece. The US won the most medals overall at 126.  I won a few bucks during the olympics but overall was just most happy that my country did so well.  Sad that it's all over now.

[TravelMug]

What a fun olympics we had this summer!  I always look forward to the olympics.  Sure it's great to bet on, but I also enjoy the competition and some of my favorite sports such as basketball and track and field. 

It looks like to close out the Olympics the US and China tied for 1st when it comes to gold medals, both having won 40 a piece. The US won the most medals overall at 126.  I won a few bucks during the olympics but overall was just most happy that my country did so well.  Sad that it's all over now.

It's just two week competition but the atmosphere and the competition. I didn't bet that much on Basketball but for sure we did enjoy watching them as team USA won the gold and then the track as well, wherein records where set and there are very close race.

Same here, our athletes are back home and they are even invited to a gala to met with the President and then awarded those athletes that have won medals here. My country won a record breaking 2 golds so everyone is really very proud of our athletes. Time for Los Angeles to prepare the next one and topple what Paris has to offer to us in terms of grandeur and amazing opening and closing ceremonies.

[Haunebu]

Is cricket being approved to be included in the next Olympics and even if it does, how many teams would be participating? What format of cricket will be included in Olympics? Due to a shortage of time, I think it should be T20.
By the way, the next Olympics in the US and we recently had a World Cup in the United States, so we already have stadiums there but what will happen in future when the Olympics is hosted in such a country where they have no cricket grounds and infrastructure?

Cricket has already been officially added to the LA 2028 Olympics as I mentioned in my previous posts. I believe the format will be T-20 or T-10 though nothing has been finalized yet based on my research.

Also, the USA will have several great stadiums readied by then which is why this shouldn't be a cause for concern. However, they definitely need to improve their pitch quality though.

[libert19]

^ It looks like T20 format will be played [1] in Olympics 2028. Also, I'm hearing that England and Scotland will play as single nation "Great Britain".


[1] https://olympics.com/en/news/cricket-olympic-games-los-angeles-2028-everything-you-need-to-know-new-sport-la28

[2] https://www.espncricinfo.com/story/olympics-news-ecb-and-cricket-scotland-in-talks-over-la28-team-gb-1447258

[boltz]

Looks like the controversy riddled Paris Olympics got even more controversial thanks to something crazy that I wasn't aware of. Seems that some Netherlands volleyball player was allowed to play despite getting convicted for rape of a 12 year old girl in the past.

Absolute insanity! Have no idea what brainless Netherlands government and IOC were thinking when they gave this filth such a big opportunity. These people are easily some of the dumbest people on the planet.

This Olympics of Paris where the most awful ones in history and I doubt any other country will manage to top this anytime soon. We had fails in almost every sport , we had a lot of players being unhappy about their conditions of living in Paris for the Olympics and we also had a lot of fans being angry with referee decisions about some sports ( gymnastic and box in general ) but hey , we had a lot of crazy memes out of this Olympics and that was the only good part from it.