Cricket has made just one appearance in Olympic competition, in the second games of the modern olympiad, held in Paris in 1900.
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Cricket has made just one appearance in Olympic competition, in the second games of the modern olympiad, held in Paris in 1900.
Continue reading “Cricket in the Olympics? (1996 edition revisited)”
It has been 112 years – two years longer than an Allen Stanford prison sentence – since two club sides from Great Britain and France played what, to date, has been the one and only game of cricket at the Olympic Games. We may not have to wait so long again for the sport to return to the modern Games, but there will be many hurdles to overcome first. Continue reading “Cricket in the Olympics – But when?”