WORLD 2028 Los Angeles Olympics adds 5 sports including lacrosse, cricket, flag footbal

CBS News ^ | OCTOBER 16, 2023 / 11:40 AM | CAITLIN O'KANE

[Sacajaweau]

I vote for Musical Chairs.

[usconservative]

Flag football?

I know, right? What's next: Nerf Archery? Nerf baseball?

[dfwgator]

No Corn Hole?

[PerConPat]

That does it for me...No karaoke and no chugalug competitions...Fuhgeddaboudit!

[HartleyMBaldwin]

There’ll be a lot of that played in the Olympic Village (probably by flag football players) but it won’t be broadcast. Yet.

[libertylover]

I haven’t watched for a few days, but they’re playing ODI and the stadiums have been mostly empty. I did see one match where India was playing, and they had a good crowd. But ODI takes too long for me; I only watch the highlights.

Will you be attending games in the Metroplex next summer?

[hoagy62]

I have to say, I am an Olympics fan. However, after this next time in Paris, if they even have it, I’m beginning to wonder if the Olympics are ever going to be played again.

[dfwgator]

I hope to, I have a few Indian friends that I would go with. They are just happy that there’s one American who can talk to them about Cricket.

[Sicon]

What do they call the event where men pretending to be women set all the new “women’s” world records?

[Verginius Rufus]

How about ultimate frizbee? Or was that added already?

Maybe miniature golf should be considered too.

[dfwgator]

What do they call the event where men pretending to be women set all the new “women’s” world records?

Nothing new for the Olympics..

[Noumenon]

Cornhole or death.

[x]

Seems like this ought to be a more prominent part of the story:

Boxing, modern pentathlon – where athletes compete in fencing, swimming, equestrian show jumping, pistol shooting and cross-country running – and weight lifting were also considered but did not make the cut for the 2028 games.

[stylecouncilor]

I don’t want to see what the flag football teams look like. :/

[LRoggy]

Up to 90 countries are now members of World Lacrosse, including 15 in Africa. I run a website for the sport.

[STJPII]

It is. My daughters played in the world games last year in Maryland against Mexico, Argentina, Italy, Latvia. China even had a team. Korea had a team. Lacrosse is the fastest growing girls sport in the US but it is catching on all over the world. US, Canada, Australia and England maybe the best womens teams

[FreedomPoster]

Thanks. And nice!

As I like to say, lacrosse has everything soccer doesn’t have. Contact, scoring, and it requires opposable thumbs.

[P.O.E.]

Who can pilfer the most from the average store

Olympic-level "Supermarket Sweep"!

[rlmorel]

For me, it was allowing professionals to participate.

I am well aware that, for the Soviets, East Germans, and Communist Chinese, it was always professionals competing from their countries, but...it just lost all the magic when we did it too.

[Svartalfiar]

About 20 million people participate in flag football at the elite level.

If your group/level has 20MM members, that doesn't exactly say 'elite'...


Four sports were added to the upcoming Paris games: Surfing, skateboarding, breaking and sport climbing.

Surfing, dumb. Skateboarding? Meh. Breaking...? Breaking what? How is that a sport? And sport climbing? Are you graded on how subjectively gracefully you climb the fake rock wall?