{"id":70908,"date":"2025-04-16T13:49:51","date_gmt":"2025-04-16T08:49:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/?p=70908"},"modified":"2025-04-16T13:49:51","modified_gmt":"2025-04-16T08:49:51","slug":"venues-for-la-olympics-2028-announced-as-cricket-returns-after-century","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/sports\/venues-for-la-olympics-2028-announced-as-cricket-returns-after-century\/","title":{"rendered":"Venues for LA Olympics 2028 announced as cricket returns after century"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>LOS ANGELES: Los Angeles 2028 Olympic Games organisers confirmed on Tuesday that cricket \u2014 which is making its return to the <a href=\"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/sports\/ioc-confirms-six-team-t20-format-for-cricket-at-la-2028-olympics\/\">Olympics<\/a> for the first time in more than a century \u2014 will be held at a purpose-built venue in Pomona, just east of Los Angeles.<\/p>\n<p>Cricket is\u00a0returning\u00a0to the Olympics for the first time since the Paris Games in 1900 with a proposed six-team Twenty20 format for men and women in Los Angeles.<\/p>\n<p>The International Olympic Committee (IOC) said in October 2023 that cricket\u2019s inclusion had the potential to activate and engage new audiences, with the sport\u2019s worldwide fan base estimated at 2.5 billion people.<\/p>\n<p>Earlier reports had suggested cricket could have been staged thousands of miles from Los Angeles in New York.<\/p>\n<p>The International Cricket Council (ICC) has also\u00a0welcomed the announcement of the venue for cricket at LA28 in a press release issued on its website.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe welcome the announcement of the venue for cricket at Los Angeles 2028 as it is a significant step towards the preparation for our sport\u2019s return to the Olympics,\u201d ICC Chairman Jay Shah was quoted in the press release.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>LOS ANGELES: Los Angeles 2028 Olympic Games organisers confirmed on Tuesday that cricket \u2014 which is making its return to the Olympics for the first time in more than a century \u2014 will be held at a purpose-built venue in Pomona, just east of Los Angeles. Cricket is\u00a0returning\u00a0to the Olympics for the first time since [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":19,"featured_media":70911,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[27881,27883,27882],"class_list":["post-70908","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sports","tag-la-olympics","tag-la-olympics-2028","tag-la-olympics-cricket-venues"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70908","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/19"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=70908"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70908\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":70913,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70908\/revisions\/70913"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/70911"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=70908"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=70908"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=70908"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}