[Sport] World Lacrosse chief hopeful sport can feature at Los Angeles 2028

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Lacrosse was provisionally granted IOC recognition back in 2018 ©Getty Images
"We hope we have an opportunity to join Los Angeles 2028, it's been in five Olympic Games," Scherr said.

"Given the sports selection process we think there’s an opportunity.

"There’s a tremendous amount of competition, but we think it would great for the Los Angeles 2028 Games.

"It certainly should be a great game changer for the sport of lacrosse around the world.

"Los Angeles 2028 have almost all their venues built already, or existing venues.

"There’s quite a bit of overlay to do.

"It’s a great Games, they’ve announced two founding partners on the sponsorship side, it’s an interesting proposition.

"The IOC Agenda 2020+5 and the question of cost and complexity of the Games might change how all federations fit into the Games.

"We’re looking forward to a fantastic Games in Los Angeles in '28 and hope we can be part of it."

Under Agenda 2020, host cities can put forward potential additional sports to be added to the programme for the Games.

Tokyo 2020 successfully saw baseball-softball, karate, sport climbing, skateboarding and surfing added to the programme.

Paris 2024 opted to retain sport climbing, skateboarding and surfing for their Games, while adding breaking.

Since joining insidethegames.biz in 2015, Michael Pavitt has covered a variety of international multi-sport events, such as the Commonwealth Games, Youth Olympics and World University Games. 

He has reported from several continental events, including two editions of the Pan American Games, as well as the European Games, Pacific Games and the Asian Winter Games.

Michael has also covered multiple IOC Sessions, ANOC General Assemblies and International Federation Congresses. He has reported extensively from Tokyo in the build-up to the Olympic and Paralympic Games.