The cricket location for the 2028 Olympic Games has been determined (photo of Indranil Mukherjee / AFP via Getty … More
The long -awaited Olympic return of cricket takes shape with a temporary place in Pomona, 30 miles east of Los Angeles, to organize the competitions of six teams during the 2028 games.
After many intrigues, when many cities have expressed their interest in welcoming cricket events, the La28 organizing committee announced that the site would be in Fairgrounds, officially known as Fairplex, which is a 500 acres complex that has hosted the County Fair of Los Angeles since 1922.
“Although cricket is an extremely popular sport, it will be a fantastic opportunity to extend the traditional limits when it appears at the Olympic Games in the rapid and exciting T20 format which should appeal to a new audience,” said the president of the International Cricket Council, Jay Shah.
He arrives at the rear of last week’s announcement that the cricket will feature six teams each in male and female T20 competitions in Los Angeles. In total, 90 athlete quotas were allocated for each sex in cricket, which means that each team can appoint a team of 15 members.
The Olympic Return of Cricket – having been only played previously at the 1900 Games – will be in Los Angeles after many speculations according to which it would be played outside Southern California, perhaps on the east coast to better adapt the general television public in South Asia.
There were a number of cities hoping to play the host. The spishhy uniform disclosure of the iconic Oakland Coliseum as the location of the next cricket season of the major league naturally linked it to the Olympic Games.
Oakland Coliseum will welcome nine games in the MLC of this season (photo by Ezra Shaw / Getty Images)
The cricket administrators in Seattle had also been passionate, although they have not yet built the infrastructure required for the orcas, the city’s MLC team.
There is pessimism as to whether cricket can build a post -Olympic heritage in the United States – the target sport market – since the place of Pomona will be a place of fortune.
This recalls the New York Pop Cricket Stadium which was built in a few months for the T20 World Cup matches last year. The modular stadium of $ 30 million in Long Island was demolished immediately after the tournament with the MLC franchise in the city to still have land at home.
The billionaire Mukesh Ambani, the owner of the Mi New York, has planned to build a world class installation in the famous city.
Cricket was played in a temporary stadium in New York at the T20 World Cup of last year (photo of J. … More
The consecutive announcements have shone on the competitions, but the way the teams qualify have not yet been determined and will live up to the cricket director.
Olympic spots would be allocated to the first six of the male and female T20 ranking on a deadline. The United States as a host nation may get an automatic slot machine, but perhaps in one sex.
Some influential administrators put pressure on qualification tournaments. “If you look at the other major sports, the qualification tournaments are so exciting and add so much drama,” said the director of the board of directors of the ICC, Tavengwa Mukuhlani, who is part of the CPI Olympic working group since the end of 2020, told me last year.
“It’s fairer, each country having to fight for its place at the Olympic Games.”
It is not known when the ICC will make a decision on the qualification issue.