Twenty20 cricket in Olympics

Olympic Games are the world's largest sports festival and it has been conducted for every 4 years. Last year (2012) Olympic festival was held in London. The next contest will happen in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil in 2016.

Cricket is one of the most popular games and it has worldwide fans. It was played in 1900 Paris Olympics for the first time. In that match England defeated France and won gold medal. After that the Olympic committee removed the game from Olympics games list. Now the International Cricket Council (ICC) has been trying to add cricket in Olympics.

Every year Olympic committee attempts to add new games, in order to this expert’s demand cricket.  International Olympic Committee was accepted the suggestion but still they don’t take any action about this. So ICC once again suggest Twenty20 match for Olympics. 

Former international players and referees also recommended the same to Olympic Committee. If everything goes well, 20-over cricket will add in 2024 Olympics.

Wrestling drop from 2020 Olympics?

International Olympic Committee decided to drop wrestling from 2020 core games list. The International Olympic Committee executive meeting was held in Switzerland yesterday. In this meeting, they have been review 26 core games from the current Olympic Games table.

Then they decided to remove wrestling from Olympic Games from 2020. Instead of wrestling, they are planning to add modern pentathlon in the list. But this decision has not been announced officially. If any one of the game could be deleted from Olympics then only they can add a new game. If Wrestling will be remove from main games, it will be combined with other games like baseball - softball, karate, squash, skating games, trekking.

The decision of the International Olympic Committee will be finalized in the Executive Committee meeting to be held in May 2013 in Russia. After that the General Assembly of International Olympic Committee will be conducting a final voting in Argentina in September.

In May 2005, the Olympic Committee removed baseball - Soft ball from core games. In 2016 Olympic, golf and rugby games are included. India has won four Olympic wrestling medals, including two at London 2012. Experts said if wrestling will remove from Olympics, it is the loss for India.