GENEVA: Olympic sports activities our bodies need pressing talks with the IOC about potential cuts of their income shares and athlete quotas on the 2028 Los Angeles Games as a result of cricket and different newcomers have been added to this system.

The International Olympic Committee final month permitted cricket, baseball/softball, flag soccer, lacrosse and squash for 2028 and stored boxing, fashionable pentathlon and weightlifting — three sports activities whose standing had been unsure.

The umbrella group of present Summer Games sports activities, identified by the acronym ASOIF, stated Monday the choice to extend to a document 36 sports activities “has raised a number of questions” among its members, who collectively shared $540 million of IOC-allocated money at each of the past two Olympics.

Most Olympic sports got $13 million to $17.3 million from the pandemic-delayed Tokyo Games in 2021. For some, that was about half of their total income over four years.

Adding four team sports in 2028 also will push the IOC to extend its preferred limit of 10,500 athletes at a Summer Games and likely will put pressure on the core Olympic sports to cut their allowed number of athletes. The IOC has set a target of early 2025 to confirm final quotas.

ASOIF’s ruling council agreed Monday “to raise these urgent matters with the IOC leadership” after assembly in Lausanne, Switzerland.

The council contains the presidents of World Athletics and the International Gymnastics Federation, two of the three top-tier Olympic sports activities. The third is aquatics.

Track and discipline received $38.5 million after the Tokyo Games, whereas gymnastics and swimming every received about $31.4 million of the IOC’s complete income from broadcasters and sponsors of $7.6 billion from 2017-21. Adding cricket is predicted to lift the IOC’s broadcast deal in India by at the least $100 million.

Key points for Olympic sports activities because the video games hold increasing are “income share, athlete quotas, Olympic qualification techniques and video games optimization,” ASOIF president Francesco Ricci Bitti said. Optimization is the current Olympic buzzword for trimming costs and services to help organizers control spending.

“These are the issues that hugely impact (international federation) operations and have far-reaching effects on the entire Olympic movement,” Ricci Bitti stated in a press release.

In a scheduled speech later Monday in Lausanne, IOC President Thomas Bach informed sports activities officers he was “properly conscious” of their concerns about the LA program.

“I would like to reiterate that the federations of the new sports proposed by the (Los Angeles) organizing committee do not have to be included in the ASOIF revenue sharing model,” Bach informed them.

The IOC will not be as a result of verify the entire revenue-sharing funds from the 2024 Paris Olympics till late subsequent 12 months.

“We ought to all the time know that these new sports activities on the Olympic program for LA will solely add to the general worth of the Olympic Games — and from this added worth all of us will profit,” Bach said.

With Russia planning to stage a World Friendship Games weeks after the closing ceremony in Paris, ASOIF cautioned its members Monday about their involvement in a potential rival to the Olympics. Moscow and Yekaterinburg are set to host the games in September.

The Russian multi-sport event “is not conducive to dialogue within the sports world during these challenging times,” ASOIF stated.

The Russian Olympic Committee stays suspended by the IOC however people can nonetheless be invited by some sports activities to compete as impartial athletes in worldwide occasions in the event that they don’t publicly help the conflict in Ukraine and don’t have ties to the navy or state safety companies.

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