{"id":290811,"date":"2023-10-11T17:39:33","date_gmt":"2023-10-11T17:39:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportsloveme.com\/?p=290811"},"modified":"2023-10-11T17:39:33","modified_gmt":"2023-10-11T17:39:33","slug":"could-ben-stokes-go-for-gold-with-team-gb-at-the-olympics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportsloveme.com\/%d1%81ricket\/could-ben-stokes-go-for-gold-with-team-gb-at-the-olympics\/","title":{"rendered":"Could Ben Stokes go for gold with Team GB at the Olympics?"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1>Could Ben Stokes go for gold at the Olympics? Team GB chiefs keen for England talisman to play after cricket was among five new sports for Los Angeles 2028 Games<\/h1>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>T20 cricket among five sports to be added to Olympic programme in 2028<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Team GB chief Mark England hopes Stokes will still be playing to take part<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>England&#8217;s Test captain and white ball talisman Stokes will be 37 by then\u00a0<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Team GB chief Mark England hopes Ben Stokes will still be around to go for gold at Los Angeles 2028 &#8211; and thinks the inclusion of cricket superstars would &#8216;elevate&#8217; his entire Olympic squad.<\/p>\n<p>Cricket is one of five sports LA 2028 organisers have asked to be added to their programme, with the International Olympic Committee set to confirm its place at a meeting in Mumbai on Sunday.<\/p>\n<p>Team GB are yet to open talks with the ECB about what a British cricket team might look like at the Olympics. But they want England&#8217;s top Twenty20 players to be available, including the likes of Stokes, if he has not retired by 2028 when he will be 37.<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;It would just be superb,&#8217; said Team GB chef de mission England about the prospect of the current T20 world champions mixing it with other British athletes.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;They have a real pedigree, a real history of performance standards, and it will begin to elevate everything in the team.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2023\/10\/11\/14\/76428857-12619191-Team_GB_chiefs_have_opened_the_door_for_England_talisman_Ben_Sto-a-27_1697032505232.jpg\" height=\"544\" width=\"634\"><\/p>\n<p>Team GB chiefs have opened the door for England talisman Ben Stokes to play in the Olympics<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2023\/10\/11\/14\/76351153-12619191-Cricket_is_set_to_be_included_in_2028_Los_Angeles_games_in_a_des-a-10_1697031587020.jpg\" height=\"382\" width=\"634\"><\/p>\n<p>Cricket is set to be included in 2028 Los Angeles games in a T20 format, where England are the reigning world champions after their triumph in Australia last year<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;People like Mark Cavendish, Andy Murray, Justin Rose, when they come into a Team GB environment, they understand the culture of high performance and that permeates through the whole team.<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;Justin Rose, you couldn&#8217;t have wished to have a better ambassador for Team GB and the Olympics. The time was right for him and maybe the time will be right for Ben Stokes.&#8217;<\/p>\n<p>Cricket has not been played at an Olympics since 1900 but a women&#8217;s T20 competition was part of last summer&#8217;s Commonwealth Games in Birmingham.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The other additional sports proposed for LA are squash, lacrosse, baseball\/softball and flag football, a non-contact version of American football.<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;Bringing cricket in is a fantastic move for the Olympic movement,&#8217; said England. &#8216;It was hugely successful at the Commonwealth Games.<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;There are a number of new sports in there that will really increase the number of women that we can have in the Great Britain Olympic team.<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;We are currently looking at flag football and seeing how we can do in that. It&#8217;s too early to suggest that we would have a flag football team. But there&#8217;s a huge NFL following in the UK. It&#8217;s an exciting proposition for another new sport to come in to get kids active.&#8217;<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2023\/10\/11\/14\/76429133-12619191-image-a-11_1697031777738.jpg\" height=\"423\" width=\"634\"><\/p>\n<p>Cricket is among five new additions to the programme for the Los Angeles Olympics in 2028<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2023\/10\/11\/14\/76429119-12619191-image-a-12_1697031795052.jpg\" height=\"423\" width=\"634\"><\/p>\n<p>The first Team GB athletes for next summer&#8217;s Olympics in Paris were unveiled at St Pancras<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2023\/10\/11\/14\/76429259-12619191-image-a-13_1697031949434.jpg\" height=\"377\" width=\"634\"><\/p>\n<p>Team GB chef de mission Mark England hopes Stokes and some of England&#8217;s other T20 stars will be willing to play in 2028<\/p>\n<p>England was speaking as Team GB announced the first athletes selected for next summer&#8217;s Olympics in Paris, with 10 sailors unveiled next to a Eurostar train at London St Pancras station.<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;We are shooting for about 370 athletes overall,&#8217; added England. &#8216;The team is looking big and strong. We want to be a top five nation, we want to be the top European nation and we think we are a 60-plus medal team. That is what we are going to shoot for and I am confident that is what we are going to bring home.&#8217;<\/p>\n<p>Among the first wave of sailors announced were Tokyo 2020 mixed Nacra 17 silver medallists John Gimson and Anna Burnet, who revealed they are getting married a month after Paris 2024.<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;It was in the build-up to Tokyo that our relationship started,&#8217; said Gimson. &#8216;We sailed together first, which was quite a good test, then we became a couple. We joined up because our strengths and weaknesses matched so well &#8211; and that seems to have translated into life!&#8217;<\/p>\n<p>Burnet added: &#8216;We got engaged at Christmas and we are getting married about a month after the Olympics. My mum is currently planning everything.<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;A gold medal would be the perfect present. But just to have a party a month after the Olympics with our family and friends, regardless of the result, is something pretty special to look forward to.&#8217;<\/p>\n<p>Source: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/sport\/cricket\/article-12619191\/Could-Ben-Stokes-gold-Olympics-Team-GB-chiefs-keen-England-talisman-play-cricket-five-new-sports-Los-Angeles-2028-Games.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read Full Article<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Could Ben Stokes go for gold at the Olympics? 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