Posted on 08/15/2016 10:25:39 PM PDT by nickcarraway
Oh God, you mean there are still six more days of the Olympics left?
They could have won the swimming competition when the pools became polluted. No one else would dare enter the pool so an easy win for the gold.
T20 format cricket is now the most popular format of the game. Matches are over in 3 hours. Inclusion of a T20 competition in the Olympics is actively being considered - although it’s actually the Indian cricket board which is holding this up. As for ‘not worldwide’ - the 2014 Final of the cricket World Cup (50-over ODI format) had a worldwide TV audience of over 1.5 billion - believed to be the highest ever for a single sporting event.
(There are now three formats for international cricket. T20 is the shortest (about 3 hours). One-day internationals (’ODIs’) have 50 over a side and take about 8 hours. Test matches, the oldest and still most prestigious form of the game, although with dwindling audiences, take up to 5 days.)
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