YP sports editor Nick Westby discusses the addition to the 2028 Los Angeles Olympics of squash, T20 cricket, lacrosse, baseball and flag football.
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00:00 It's been a big day in the world of Olympic sport for five different pursuits that have
00:11 all been accepted onto the Olympic program for the Los Angeles Games in 2028. We'll start
00:17 with squash, a sport that's very close to home here in Yorkshire. We've got a powerful
00:20 Yorkshire league that attracts some of the best players around the world. People like
00:24 Nick Matthew and James Wilstrop, products of that, and they've become world champions
00:29 in the past. They spent most of their career lobbying for squash's inclusion in the Olympic
00:33 Games and it has finally been accepted into the 2028 program by the IOC in a conference
00:40 in Mumbai. Fantastic news for them. We're going to hear from Asia Harris, an 18-year-old from
00:45 Pontefract, in Tuesday's Yorkshire Post. Joining them in the 2028 Games is T20 cricket, which
00:52 made its bow at the Commonwealth Games in Birmingham last year to great acclaim. Flag
00:57 football, which is the non-contact version of the NFL American football, that makes its
01:03 debut, surprise, surprise, in an American Games in Los Angeles. Lacrosse is also going to be
01:09 in the Games in 2028, as is another American favourite, baseball and softball, which returns
01:16 to the Olympics after a spell earlier this century.
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