Olympics: ‘Monumental day’ – Saurav Ghosal as squash added to 2028 Games roster

At a sports club in Mumbai in 2016, Saurav Ghosal had lamented how squash had been excluded from the Olympics in place of a sport where the top players had simply refused to compete.

On Monday though, on the sidelines of the International Olympic Committee Session in Mumbai, Ghosal was all smiles. Moments earlier, squash had finally been given a nod to enter the Olympic roster for the first time in the sports history.

Members of the International Olympic Committee, or the IOC, which organises the Olympic Games, voted the sport – along with cricket, baseball/softball, flag football and lacrosse – into the program for the Los Angeles edition in 2028.

“It’s an absolutely monumental day for world squash,” Ghosal said. “Every squash player worth their salt has dreamt of this day. We are absolutely ecstatic that we have finally, after all these years of perseverance, which is what the game of squash is all about, that we are at this step of finally making it to LA28.”

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