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    "title": "LA 2028: Cricket Will Feature Six Teams Each In  Men\u2019s And Women\u2019s Events",
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    "excerpt": "International Olympic Committee: Cricket at the Los Angeles 2028 Olympic Games will be played in the T20 format, with six teams competing in both the men\u2019s and women\u2019s tournaments, the Organisers said.",
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    "editor1": "International Olympic Committee: Cricket at the Los Angeles 2028 Olympic Games will be played in the T20 format, with six teams competing in both the men\u2019s and women\u2019s tournaments, the Organisers said.<p>The event programme and athlete quotas for LA 2028 was approved by the Executive Board (EB) of the International Olympic Committee (IOC) on Wednesday.<\/p>\r\n\r\n<p>The organisers said that a total of 90 athlete quotas have been allocated for each gender, allowing every team to name a 15-member squad.<\/p>\r\n\r\n<p>The cricket venues for LA28 are yet to be confirmed.<\/p>\r\n\r\n<p>Cricket is one of five new sports to feature at the upcoming Olympics. The IOC approved cricket\u2019s inclusion for LA28 two years ago, along with baseball\/softball, flag football, lacrosse (sixes) and squash.<\/p>\r\n\r\n<p>Cricket was included in the LA28 sports programme during the 141st I0C Session in Mumbai along with Flag Football, Lacrosse, Squash, and Baseball\/SoftbalI. It is already part of two of the other multi-sport extravaganzas, the Commonwealth Games and Asian Games.<\/p>\r\n\r\n<p>Both men\u2019s and women\u2019s cricket tournaments, played in the T20 format, were part of the Asian Games in 2010, 2014 and 2023.<\/p>\r\n\r\n<p>Eight teams participated at the Birmingham 2022 Commonwealth Games while at the Hangzhou Asian Games, 14 teams competed in the men\u2019s event while nine played the women\u2019s competition.<\/p>\r\n\r\n<p>With the inclusion of boxing, approved by the IOC Session in March 2025, the LA28 sports programme is composed of 31 sports, with an additional five sports proposed by the Organising Committee and approved by the IOC in 2023.<\/p>\r\n\r\n<p>With a total of 351 medal events, 22 more than at Paris 2024 (329), the LA28 programme maintains the core athlete quota of 10,500, with an extra 698 quota places allocated for the five sports proposed by the LA28 Organising Committee (baseball\/softball, cricket, flag football, lacrosse and squash).<\/p>\r\n\r\n<p>With the inclusion of boxing, approved by the IOC Session in March 2025, the LA28 sports programme is composed of 31 sports, with an additional five sports proposed by the Organising Committee and approved by the IOC in 2023.<\/p>\r\n\r\n<p><b>Also Read: <\/b> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cricketnmore.com\/tagging\/highest-tax-paying-cricketers\">Highest tax paying cricketers<\/a><\/p>\r\n\r\n<p>Article Source: <a href=\"https:\/\/ians.in\/english-wire\/sports\/1\" rel=\"nofollow\">IANS<\/a><\/p>\r\n\r\n",
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