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BBC News
18-04-2025
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Talks over GB cricket team for LA 2028 Olympics
Discussions are taking place about the formation of a Great Britain cricket team that could compete at the Los Angeles 2028 Olympic talks between the England and Wales Cricket Board (ECB) and Cricket Scotland to establish a Team GB side have begun as the sport prepares to make its return to the Scotland chief executive Trudy Lindblade told BBC Radio 4: "We have a really good working relationship with the ECB, so we have been in talks with them and [we're] in the process of establishing a Team GB cricket entity."That's what's required by the British Olympic Association (BOA) for a British team to compete at the Olympic Games."The ECB has confirmed those discussions to BBC cricket events at LA 2028 will be played as six-team T20 tournaments for both men and women, the International Olympic Committee announced last week."So it's really interesting, the six teams for us, we would have an opportunity through the GB concept," Lindblade teams will be able to field squads of up to 15 players, but the qualification process has not yet been confirmed."There's a lot to come in terms of how qualification takes place, not just for those six teams but how - if a GB team were to qualify - we have selection within that," Lindblade added."So, exciting times, and we'll continue to liaise with the ECB and our colleagues at LA 2028 and ICC. It will be interesting."Cricket's only previous appearance at the Olympics was at Paris that occasion, Great Britain won by 158 runs against France in a one-off final, after the Netherlands and Belgium BOA said in August it hopes to enter a men's football team into the 2028 Games, uniting the England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland Football Associations to field a first Team GB men's Olympic side since London were the nominated nation to attempt to qualify on behalf of Team GB for the women's football competition at the Paris 2024 Games, but they fell short in their Nations League campaign.
BBC News
28-02-2025
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220 requests to replace Paris 2024 Olympic medals
A total of 220 requests have been made to replace medals won at the Paris 2024 Olympic medals were designed by French luxury jeweller Chaumet and are set with a piece of iron taken from the Eiffel Tower during its renovation in the 20th British diver Yasmin Harper, who won Team GB's first medal of the Games, was among the athletes to notice her medal was showing signs of "tarnishing".Paris 2024 organisers said any damaged medals will be replaced and the French Mint told AFP it has received 220 such requests - equivalent to four percent of the total awarded."The French Mint [Monnaie de Paris] has replaced some of them and is continuing its replacement operation at the request of the athletes," it said in a who won women's 3m synchronised springboard bronze with partner Scarlett Mew Jensen, said later in the Games she had noticed "small bits of tarnishing".That came after American skateboarder Nyjah Huston criticised the quality of his medal, posting a video of the bronze he won in the men's street skateboarding that appeared discoloured and chipped.A Paris 2024 spokesperson said at the time it was working closely with the Monnaie de Paris to understand the cause of the damage and promised "damaged medals will be systematically replaced and engraved in an identical way to the originals".
