Twenty20’s push to be part of the 2020 Olympics has received a major fillip with news that the International Olympic Committee (IOC) has voted to have the International Cricket Council (ICC) approved. However, while cricket - along with power boating sport climbing - can now bid to join the 2020 games the ICC currently has no imminent plans to have the format included.
“They are recognised federations by us, which now means that they can take part in IOC events,” said IOC director of communications Mark Adams during a meeting in Vancouver ahead of the 2010 Winter Olympics.
Cricket received Olympic “recognition status” in 2007 and faces a stiff battle from other sports, such as golf, karate and baseball, to become part of the programme. The ICC has also been wary of pushing for Twenty20 at the 2020 games. David Morgan, the ICC president, had visited Beijing to meet with IOC officials in 2008, while cautioning the sport to think carefully about a push for a spot at the Olympics.
One of the game’s more outspoken advocates of taking cricket - in specific Twenty20 - has been Adam Gilchrist, who at last year’s Cowdrey Lecture at Lord’s pushed for the game to be included in the 2020 games. The proposal has also received backing from Steve Waugh, Stephen Fleming, Kumar Sangakkara, Sourav Ganguly, VVS Laxman and Yuvraj Singh.
Cricket was part of the 1900 Olympics in Paris and has not appeared since, but will feature at this year’s Asian Games in Guangzhou, China.
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When baseball, and golf are also is in contention then why bother. 
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aww i think that would be awesome for cricket to be part of the olympics...that's such an honor...why's the ICC being such losers?
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ICC has utterly FAILED in spreading cricket worldwide. If Indians weren't such fans, the game will have died by now.
May be adding it to Olympics can get a better result.
Boyks is not a big fan of the idea though
To him Olympics = Athletics + Swimming
**" **If they are going to have it in the Olympics then it should be Twenty20 cricket, because you will need to appeal to a very large audience and you have to interest people outside the big centres if cricket. But I personally don’t see cricket as an Olympic sport. I think it will get in there because the cricket authorities want it. I also think the IOC want it because the more things they have in the Olympics, the more will they get money from TV, because it will run for more hours. I always thought the Olympics was based on what happened in Greece when they held the games.
I am only an athletics and swimming fan. As far as I am concerned, if we are going to allow cricket and golf and soccer and tennis in the Olympics, we may as well have tiddlywinks and darts and dominoes. Why don’t we have poker or ten-pin bowling? They are not really sports, they are more leisure activities. I am not for that. "
‘Afridi should apologise to cricket’ - Boyks
‘Afridi should apologise to cricket’ | Bowl at Boycs | Cricinfo Talk | Cricinfo.com](http://www.cricinfo.com/talk/content/multimedia/448778.html)
" First of all, anybody who has heard me talk about Afridi in the recent past will know that I have been a big fan of his. I love his cricket and I like him as a person. I want to get that on record.
But biting the ball was absolutely stupid and thoughtless. When he was caught and punished, he then tried to make every other team out to be cheats. If I was on the ICC panel and had disciplined him with suspending him for two Twenty20s, I would have listened to that statement and I would have taken that quote as bringing the game into disrepute and disrespecting players of the teams around the world and given him a ban of few more matches. When he makes a statement like that, it sends out an appalling message to cricketers all over the world. If the ICC had given him a further ban for his comments then that would have sent an even better message that these sort of remarks will not be tolerated. If he really knows that other teams are cheating then why doesn’t he report them? He doesn’t. He is just so embarrassed about his own performance that he tried to throw disrespectful comments at other people. It is not on and it was an appalling thing. If I was with him, I would tell him that as much as love his cricket, what he said was disgraceful and he ought to apologise to cricket and cricketers.** "**
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i agree with Boyke on both ioc and afridi cheating