板球将重返奥运会吗？

(2012-07-17 10:31:05)

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板球与奥运会有着不平坦的历史。

在印度、英国、南非和西印度群岛以及其他国家流行的板球，原计划是1896年首届现代奥运会的一个比赛项目，但由于申请参赛球队不足而被取消。唯一一场板球比赛是法国和英国在1900年夏季奥运会上的比赛。虽然板球被定为2002年奥运会的比赛项目，但迄今夏奥会比赛日程上尚未见它的踪影。

然而，二十20（Twenty20）板球（如图所示）可能会让板球重返奥运。2003年在伦敦发展起来的二十20板球改变了板球的打法，使比赛时间限于约两个半小时之内，比较接近于其他奥运会运动项目的时限——比传统的持续3天到5天的板球赛事大大缩短。

国际奥林匹克委员会在2010年承认国际板球理事会（International Cricket Council）——有着105个国家成员的板球管理机构——为联合会，从而为这项运动2020年重返奥运体坛铺平了道路。

Is Cricket Coming Back to Olympics?

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Cricket and the Olympics have an uneasy history.

Cricket — played in India, England, South Africa and the West Indies, among other nations — was supposed to be part of the first modern Olympics in 1896, but was canceled due to a lack of applicants. A single cricket match was played between the French and the British at the 1900 Summer Olympics. And although cricket was recognized as an Olympic sport in 2002, it has yet to appear on a Summer Olympics schedule.

But Twenty20 cricket (above) might help cricket find its way back to Olympic competition. Developed in England in 2003, Twenty20 cricket alters the play of cricket to limit the game to about two-and-a-half hours — closer to other Olympic team sports and far short of the three to five days a traditional cricket match lasts.

The International Olympic Committee acknowledged the International Cricket Council, the sport’s governing body with 105 country members, as a federation in 2010, clearing the way for a bid to return the sport to the 2020 games.

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