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Cricket will make the Olympics bigger and better - The Economist   

The Cricket World Cup, currently under way in India, claims to be the sport’s most prestigious international contest. But it may soon face competition for that title. From 2028, cricket could feature in the Olympic games. On October 15th officials from the International Olympic Committee (IOC), meeting in Mumbai, are expected to ratify cricket’s inclusion at the Los Angeles games, along with lacrosse, squash, flag football and baseball (for men) or softball (for women).

The additions feel radical. Cricket has featured only once in the Olympics, in Paris in 1900. (In a mockery of an international match, a minor English touring side, who happened to be in France, beat a French team made up mostly of English expats. They were the only entrants.) Squash has never featured, despite a clamour for its inclusion for decades. Flag football, a miniature version of American football, is barely played outside America. But radical inclusions are becoming more common. The games in Paris next year will feature breakdancing in a line-up of 32 sports. When the five new sports get ratified in Mumbai next week, Los Angeles 2028 will showcase 33. By contrast, the first games in Athens in 1896 had just nine.

Those first few games resembled parochial carnivals more than international sporting contests. In 1900, for example, the Belgian contestant bagged gold in the live-pigeon shooting, after blasting 21 birds out of the sky in a day. The event too was mercifully put out of its misery. As was the tug-of-war, which was pulled in 1920.

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