The Craig Way Show

Breaking out, flag football in for 2028 Olympics?

With the 2024 Paris Olympics finalized, it's time to look ahead to the next summer games that will take place on U.S. soil in 2028. It will look different because a few sporting events have been added, a few have been removed. Did your favorite sports get canned? Listen to today's show to find out!

Duration:: 13m
Broadcast on:: 13 Aug 2024
Audio Format:: mp3

We welcome you now we're number two here on Sports Radio AM 1300 the zone Craig way alongside the producer Cameron Parker. We're glad to have you with us and we're with you. Each and every weekday from Monday through Friday from two to five. So we're glad to have you with us alongside. They they're coming up. We're going to have some more conversation. We're going to hear more from long orange football coach, Steve Sarkeesian. So we'll have that and additionally we'll get you updated on some NFL things and NFL topics as well. We've got major league baseball to get to. So there's other there's some other topics to get to. So we'll do that. But the one thing that we wanted to mention. Was kind of an Olympic update where things were with regard to the Olympics and the unfortunate news that it looks like is going to take place. From with regard to Jordan Childs that it does not look as though she's going to be able to hold on to her bronze medal and the women's floor exercise. This thing has gone back and forth as we know it started off with initially initially during the competition. The ruling was on a Barbosa of Romania finished third. And the team USA appealed and said that Jordan Childs was not given the proper scores for some of the more difficult disciplines within her routine. The judges agreed and gave her the point or point 01 that moved her to third place. Then the Romanian side which was very upset saying that they shouldn't have made that decision said that the appeal was made too late. You have one minute to make your appeal after that. And they said that the appeal was four seconds beyond the one minute time limit for scoring in inquiries. And the court of arbitration for sport ruled that on Monday. USA Gymnastics came right back and said that's not true. We have video evidence that shows the appeal was launched at 47 seconds and a second appeal came 55 seconds. So both were inside of that which would have made it legal at that point would have made it within the time. However, the court said no not changing her mind. The rules do not allow for an arbitrary award to be reconsidered even when conclusive new evidence is presented. That was according to USA Gymnastics. They said we're deeply disappointed by the notification and will continue to pursue every possible avenue and appeal process including to the Swiss federal tribunal to ensure the just scoring placement and medal award for Jordan. So so now that they've they've come back and the International Olympic Committee said meantime, okay, you do that. Meantime, we're going to be in touch with you, the US Olympic Committee to get Jordan Childs to return her bronze medal. And the US Olympic Committee says she's not returning it until this gets ruled on and any appeal could go to Switzerland's highest court, the Swiss tribunal or the European court of human rights. All this is over a bronze medal. You know, there there've been some of both sides that said what they ought to do is just give give them both the bronze. Some have said give three, four, and five give all of them because it was to everybody. Yeah. Last place you get a medal. Everybody gets a medal. Everybody gets a trophy. Now, Flav of Flav did give Charles his own bronze medal. He did, which may even be better than an actual bronze medal. Yeah, we've seen now the bronzing has come off of some of the Flav of Flav. You know, he's he's been a big supporter of the Olympians, especially the discus Thor of Veronica Fraley. But he posted on X that he made a bedazzled bronze medal for Charles as a potential replacement while the US fights the powers that be. The replacement is in the manner of a clock. Of course it is because it's Flav of Flav. He wears the clock around his neck. Um, since he was in public enemy. By the way, he's a rock and roll Hall of Fame. Because public enemy is in rock and roll Hall of Fame. Um, Jordan child's mom replied on X, Gina Childs. Thank you. Means the world. She's not on socials right now, as you can imagine. I'll share it with her. She's not on socials right now. Yeah. Yeah. So she's not she and she had said, uh, yesterday um, that she, uh, did not want to, said she needed a mental health break from it. Is is the way that that was going to go. She said that she was going to need a mental health break. Uh, okay. Here's something else I wanted to mention. And I mentioned this going into the top of the hour. Uh, the next Olympics, as we know, of course, are in Los Angeles. Every Olympic games, everyone going back decades, every single one. Feature sports that are added, returning or dropped. So as Paris is passing the torch to Los Angeles, the international Olympic committee has already adjusted the event schedule. Uh, a year ago, the IOC approved proposals for the five new sports at the 20, 28 Olympics, some of which have not been seen at the games in more than a hundred years. And as of this month, those five sports have been approved for 20, 28. So here are the five sports that have been approved. First of all, you should know, there is the return of both baseball and softball. There we go. And thank you. And our good friend and regular contributor to this program, Gene Watts in the Chicago White Sox front office is on the selection committee for that 20, 28 Olympic pain. So he'll be part of that. Mike's social will be the manager of that Olympic team. So how is that going to work with the baseball season? We'll just kind of be like golf where it's just just or actually like MLS where the season continues. And if you're on the team, you're just not with your professional baseball team. I think so because I think it may be largely minor leaguers and collegiate players. I don't think this will be like the NHL or the WNBA, which is shut down for the couple of weeks during. Yeah. So I don't, I don't see that happening. So it was the shame because the last world baseball classic when you had the US first Japan and you had Otani going against Mike Trout, you know, exactly. So baseball and women's softball. Now, the softball events are going to be in Oklahoma City at the softball hall of fame where they have the women's college world series. Okay. Now, according to one report, I've said it said the baseball events will not be hosted in Los Angeles either. So we'll see. If first it was a demonstration sport, then it was officially including an Olympic program in the 92 Barcelona game, softball was introduced in Atlanta, 96 as women's only event. It wasn't until Tokyo that they returned as a combined sport baseball and softball. Well, while both sports are related, they were historically separated at the Olympic level with baseball as a men only sport and softball as women's only. So, well, the OCO will be open in 2028, while being baseball being played there. Oh, yeah, that's right. It'll probably be torn. I think that'll probably. Yeah. Aren't they going to tear down and build a new, I thought I had it you were out last week that there's that there was funding approved to build a brand new recreation and business park community in that area. Now, I didn't necessarily say that the Coliseum is going to be torn down. But anyway, so they will return. You know what else is returning? La Crosse is returning for the third time in the game's history in the form of La Crosse sixes. It's a more fast paced version of field across for the modern player. It only previously appeared at the 1904 1908 games. So, this inclusion is a seminal achievement for the sport, they say. Cricket, which appeared one time back in 1900. And there were only two teams that played it. England in Canada in 1900. And so, England won it. Canada won the silver and England's B team took the bronze B for bronze. So, cricket will be back as well. New sports. Well, one other, yeah, new sport, squash, not the vegetable, the racket sport played by two people within four enclosed walls, kind of, you know, just these are the longer rack and kind of like racquetball a little bit there. And everyone playing it has to be over the age of 60. Let's stop that. First player to reach a score of 11 wins a game first to win three games wins the entire match. That squash says the guy, by the way, who's playing pickleball these days. You're playing pickleball. And I want pickleball to be in the Olympics. That'd be fun. Well, maybe this opens the door to it if squash works. And then flag football. Heck yeah, baby. Now, it's not quite the flag football that we've been customed to seeing. I mean, it is. It's teams of five. Yeah. Okay. 50 yard field for flag football, men's and women's flag football. US women's flag football is the reigning world champion two times over. Uh huh. So there you go. All right. So those are the sports that will be there. The ones that are not going to be there. Breaking. It's not going to be back. Maybe they call that break dancing and be back because breaking just I just I don't like it, Greg. It just sounds weird. It said while viral breakout star Ray Gunn, a real name Rachel Gunneville, Australia made a splash with her unique style of breaking. The event seemingly didn't make enough of an impression to bring the sport back. And then the other one that may be surprised. It's not completely out yet, but there's a decent boxing. Boxing may be pulled. This is for a different reason. Up until 2020, the International Boxing Association was the governing body responsible for overseeing regulations of all the qualifications and competition within the Olympics. However, due to allegations of corruption. Imagine that boxing corruption and failures to implement reforms around governance and finance. The IOC stripped the IBA of recognition in 2023. They have not made a definite decision on that, but they will buy early next year. That was a that was an event that I really did not pay too much attention to in this past Olympics. Yeah. Yeah. And a lot of it does have to do with all the corruption and all of the scandals involving the IOC. It's a shame. It's a shame when you think about, you know, Muhammad Ali was a gold medal winning boxer. We're home in 1960, you know, when he was cash his clay, you know, also George Foreman won in 1968 when the gold medal and that Sugar Ray Leonard. I mean, there were great boxers who were gold medalists at the Olympics, but it was a different time then. So we'll see how it goes for them. All right. 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