Olympics Adding Flag Football in 2028

[Seaofred92]

Can you even imagine Tyreek Hill running circles around some Vietnamese guy in this? Please let it happen

 

[That SOB Van Owen]

Grow the game? I guess?

 

[Baron Winnebago]

IOC: no one wants it, but here it is. Go fuck yourself

 

[Tsakoi]

I think we have found the absolute perfect spot for Deion, Hunter and Shadeur. I would pay big money to see them "Rolex" team China.

 

[dom91932]

I think we have found the absolute perfect spot for Deion, Hunter and Shadeur. I would pay big money to see them "Rolex" team China.

 

[nja13]

I think we have found the absolute perfect spot for Deion, Hunter and Shadeur. I would pay big money to see them "Rolex" team China.

Don't you dare try to trick me into cheering for those guys.

 

[Huskersballz]

I don’t think we will see any NFL guys in there. Could you imagine a guy like Tyreek tearing his ACL during one of the games?

 

[CornHub]

Grow the game? I guess?

IOC: no one wants it, but here it is. Go fuck yourself

The hosting country always gets to add some sports of their own choice. If you're the US, flag football makes a lot of sense for what should be an easy medal. Bowling has been in the Olympics in the past when the US hosted.

 

[nja13]

I don’t think we will see any NFL guys in there. Could you imagine a guy like Tyreek tearing his ACL during one of the games?

I could see it being recently retired NFL guys, like what the Big Three 3 on 3 league is in basketball.
Or maybe your CFL/USFL/XFL/whatever minor leagues there are these days type of players.

 

[Baron Winnebago]

I could see it being recently retired NFL guys, like what the Big Three 3 on 3 league is in basketball.
Or maybe your CFL/USFL/XFL/whatever minor leagues there are these days type of players.

Is this Adrian Martinez's time to shine?

 

[huskerj12]

I am confused, haven't baseball and softball already been in the Olympics? Or did they go away for awhile?

 

[Dell Husker]

Is this Adrian Martinez's time to shine?

Tommy “3 and YOLO” Armstrong

 

[That SOB Van Owen]

I am confused, haven't baseball and softball already been in the Olympics? Or did they go away for awhile?

They went away for a while. Coming back now I guess.

 

[nja13]

Is this Adrian Martinez's time to shine?

Do they allow the QB to run in 7 on 7? If not, no.

 

[nja13]

I am confused, haven't baseball and softball already been in the Olympics? Or did they go away for awhile?

Yes.
TL;DR: It is not a permanent sport, but hosting countries have the ability to add a handful of sports, and baseball is often added when a country where the sport is popular like the U.S. or Japan is hosting.

At the IOC meeting on July 7, 2005, baseball and softball were voted out of the 2012 Summer Olympics in London, United Kingdom, becoming the first sports voted out of the Olympics since polo was eliminated from the 1936 Olympics.[6] The elimination excised 16 teams and more than 300 athletes from the 2012 Olympics. The two slots left available by the IOC's elimination were subsequently filled by golf and rugby sevens in 2016. This decision was reaffirmed on February 9, 2006.[7] In the stands during the 2008 bronze medal game between the U.S. and Japan, IOC head Jacques Rogge was interviewed by MLB.com's Mark Newman and cited various criteria for baseball to earn its way back in: "To be on the Olympic program is an issue where you need universality as much as possible. You need to have a sport with a following, you need to have the best players and you need to be in strict compliance with WADA (World Anti-Doping Agency). And these are the qualifications that have to be met. When you have all that, you have to win hearts. You can win the mind, but you still must win hearts."[8] It was officially decided in August 2009 at the IOC Board meeting in Berlin that baseball would also not be included in the 2016 Summer Olympics.[9]

Under new IOC policies that shift the Games to an "event-based" program rather than sport-based, the host organizing committee can now also propose the addition of sports to the program alongside the permanent "core" events.[12][13] A second bid for baseball-softball to be included as an event in 2020 was shortlisted by the Tokyo Organizing Committee on June 22, 2015.[14] On August 3, 2016, during the 129th IOC Session in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, the IOC approved the Tokyo Organizing Committee's final shortlist of five sports, which included baseball, to be included in the program during the 2020 Summer Olympics.[15][16][17] Baseball will not be included in the 2024 Paris Olympics, but it is expected that it will be included along with softball, in the 2028 Los Angeles Olympics due to baseball's popularity in the United States.

 

[Baron Winnebago]

The hosting country always gets to add some sports of their own choice. If you're the US, flag football makes a lot of sense for what should be an easy medal. Bowling has been in the Olympics in the past when the US hosted.

Who died and made you Pierre de Coubertin?