Baseball, which was excluded from the official Olympic event after the 2020 Tokyo Olympics, will return. The International Olympic Committee (IOC) approved five sports, including baseball-softball, cricket, squash, lacrosse, and flag football, as official events at the 2028 LA Olympics at the Executive Committee (hereinafter referred to as the Executive Committee) meeting in Mumbai, India on the 13th.
The five events were previously proposed to the IOC by the Los Angeles Olympic Organizing Committee. In other words, the IOC accepted this. 토토사이트
Whether or not to join the official event will be decided at the IOC General Assembly, which will be held from the 15th to the 17th at the same venue. According to Yonhap News, it is expected that the general meeting will be easy to decide on official items for the five items because it passed the executive committee.
The Hangzhou Asian Games baseball final between South Korea and Taiwan was held at the Shaoxing Baseball and Softball Sports Center in China on the 7th. South Korea won the gold medal by beating Taiwan 2-0. The Korean national baseball team players are delighted after the game.
However, the event will become an official event only at the 2028 LA Olympics. “The selection of five sports (as official events) was related to the U.S. sports culture,” IOC President Thomas Bach said in an interview with local media after the execution. It is to show the world sports that symbolize the United States,” he said.
The IOC’s decision brings cricket back to the Olympic stage for the first time in 128 years. Cricket was an official sport in the first tournament, the 1896 Athena and 1900 Paris tournaments.
Lacrosse will also be presented at the Olympics for the first time in a while since the 1908 London Games. Flag football and squash have become the first official events at the Olympics.
Flag football is a variant of American football. In American football, touchdowns are directly performed by players, but flag football requires the removal of flags (flags) or flag belts from the defensive team. Meanwhile, the Tokyo Olympics were not held in 2020 due to the declaration of the COVID-19 pandemic, and the 2021 competition was postponed for a year.
Baseball made its first appearance at the Olympics in 1904 St. Louis. It was not an official event but was held as an exhibition game. Afterwards, the event was held in Berlin 1936, Melbourne, and Tokyo in 1964, before becoming an exhibition event in Los Angeles in 1984 and Seoul in 1988.
It became an official event in Barcelona for the first time in 1992, and was held until 2008 in Beijing, but was excluded from the official event in London 2012 and Rio 2016. Korea won the bronze medal in Sydney 2000 and the gold medal in Beijing 2008.
On the 7th, the bronze medal match between South Korea and the Dominican Republic in baseball at the 2020 Tokyo Olympics was held at Yokohama Stadium in Kanagawa Prefecture, Japan. The Korean national baseball team is regretful after allowing a large number of runs in the top of the first inning.
