LONDON: ICC CEO Geoff Allardice has stated that the ultimate name on Afghanistan‘s participation within the 2028 Summer time Olympics in Los Angeles will probably be taken by the Worldwide Olympic Committee (IOC).
He additionally stated that the ICC is not going to have a lot position to play on this case.
“(In) the Olympic competitors groups are fielded by the Nationwide Olympic Committees of these international locations. As a global sporting federation, we place our sport with the LA28organisers for inclusion.And, the IOC they usually (LA28) have included cricket,” Allardice stated through the BBC’s Stumped podcast.
“By way of the place of the Nationwide Olympic Committee of Afghanistan, it is in all probability one thing for the IOC to have the ability to handle extra precisely than me.
“However, I do know that they (IOC) have been following the progress or the developments there. Our place on cricket and supporting our member(s) in Afghanistan isn’t dissimilar to these of different worldwide sporting organisations.”
Whereas cricket has been included within the Olympics for the primary time in over 100 years, the dearth of a ladies’s staff from Afghanistan makes it is participation uncertain, with the organisers putting a excessive deal with gender equality throughout sports activities.
The Afghan ladies’s cricket staff was banned by the Taliban after its takeover of the nation in August 2021, and many of the gamers went into exile since then.
Nevertheless, the ICC has been working with the Taliban in a bid to renew the game for ladies within the nation.
“The query for the ICC board is will we assist our member of their potential to advertise cricket throughout the guidelines set by the federal government of the nation? And, (the) view is sure,” added Allardice.
With Afghanistan prohibiting many of the sports activities for ladies within the nation, the IOC has knowledgeable the Taliban that its Nationwide Olympic Committee may very well be suspended if the state of affairs persists, which places its participation within the 2024 Paris Olympics unsure.
Allardice additionally defined that whereas the Afghanistan Cricket Board had dedicated to increasing and supporting ladies’s cricket within the nation in 2017, the brand new set of legal guidelines put in by the Taliban considerably makes it helpless.
“They had been within the technique of doing that by means of to 2021. And, in 2021, the regime within the nation modified and has introduced in guidelines, legal guidelines that prohibit ladies from enjoying sport(s) within the nation,” he stated.
“While now we have spoken with the Afghanistan Cricket Board, and their place is that they need to function throughout the legal guidelines of the nation and the principles set by the federal government,” he added.
As per ICC’s proposal for cricket within the Olympics, a six-team occasion is being deliberate throughout genders, whereas it is going to be working with the organisers in 2025 to chalk out the construction of the identical and the way the edges can qualify.
He additionally stated that the ICC is not going to have a lot position to play on this case.
“(In) the Olympic competitors groups are fielded by the Nationwide Olympic Committees of these international locations. As a global sporting federation, we place our sport with the LA28organisers for inclusion.And, the IOC they usually (LA28) have included cricket,” Allardice stated through the BBC’s Stumped podcast.
“By way of the place of the Nationwide Olympic Committee of Afghanistan, it is in all probability one thing for the IOC to have the ability to handle extra precisely than me.
“However, I do know that they (IOC) have been following the progress or the developments there. Our place on cricket and supporting our member(s) in Afghanistan isn’t dissimilar to these of different worldwide sporting organisations.”
Whereas cricket has been included within the Olympics for the primary time in over 100 years, the dearth of a ladies’s staff from Afghanistan makes it is participation uncertain, with the organisers putting a excessive deal with gender equality throughout sports activities.
The Afghan ladies’s cricket staff was banned by the Taliban after its takeover of the nation in August 2021, and many of the gamers went into exile since then.
Nevertheless, the ICC has been working with the Taliban in a bid to renew the game for ladies within the nation.
“The query for the ICC board is will we assist our member of their potential to advertise cricket throughout the guidelines set by the federal government of the nation? And, (the) view is sure,” added Allardice.
With Afghanistan prohibiting many of the sports activities for ladies within the nation, the IOC has knowledgeable the Taliban that its Nationwide Olympic Committee may very well be suspended if the state of affairs persists, which places its participation within the 2024 Paris Olympics unsure.
Allardice additionally defined that whereas the Afghanistan Cricket Board had dedicated to increasing and supporting ladies’s cricket within the nation in 2017, the brand new set of legal guidelines put in by the Taliban considerably makes it helpless.
“They had been within the technique of doing that by means of to 2021. And, in 2021, the regime within the nation modified and has introduced in guidelines, legal guidelines that prohibit ladies from enjoying sport(s) within the nation,” he stated.
“While now we have spoken with the Afghanistan Cricket Board, and their place is that they need to function throughout the legal guidelines of the nation and the principles set by the federal government,” he added.
As per ICC’s proposal for cricket within the Olympics, a six-team occasion is being deliberate throughout genders, whereas it is going to be working with the organisers in 2025 to chalk out the construction of the identical and the way the edges can qualify.
