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Cricket will be included in the 2024 Olympics if Rome wins its bid to host the games, the president of the Italian board has said.Rome is one of the cities bidding to host the Olympics in 2024 - alongside Paris, Los Angeles and Budapest - and, under new regulations, will have the opportunity to add five sports to the games as they see fit. France Cricket is attempting to win a similar commitment with the Paris organising committee.If Rome hosts the Olympics, cricket will be included, Simone Gambino, president of the Federazione Cricket Italiana (FCI) told ESPNcricinfo. We have had a firm commitment from the organising committee.It is likely that, if Rome does host the games, cricket would be held in Bologna. The city hosted World Cricket League Division Four matches in 2010 and though the availability of turf pitches may be an issue, there would be time to overcome that should the bid be successful.Which nations would be involved remains open to debate. There would probably be a maximum of 16 teams invited to take part, though there is a possibility of just 12, with Olympic regulations suggesting they will be spread across the globe.So, if only 12 teams were included, three might come from Europe, three from Asia, two from Africa, two or three from America and the Caribbean and two or three from the South Pacific area. It could well be that some well-known cricket nations - notably England, who are part of the UK in Olympic terms - miss out.Roma 2024 would welcome new sports, such as cricket, in the Olympic program also in consideration of the increasing number of people that are actively playing it in Italy, a spokesman for the Rome 2024 organising committee told ESPNcricinfo. We are however fully aware that such a decision belongs to the International Olympic Committee and therefore our planning is exclusively based on the indications received from the IOC in Lausanne.The news emerged as the ICC continued its annual conference in Edinburgh. Having started the week with high hopes of winning agreement on a number of fairly radical proposals - the introduction of promotion and relegation in Test and ODI cricket, the return of a World T20 every two years and a change in the manner in which revenues are pooled and distributed among other things - it now appears it will take longer than anticipated for all the strands to come together.As a result the press conference planned for Saturday, when the ICC hoped to unveil the agreements, was cancelled and an extra meeting has been arranged for late August in Dubai. The next ICC board meeting takes place in South Africa in October.While tangible progress has been limited, the mood of the conference has been notably more optimistic than in previous years. After years of being bullied (in the words of one Associate delegate) by a couple of dominant Full Member nations, the talk now is of family and consensus. Plans have not been derailed as much as given a more realistic timeframe for completion.One intriguing suggestion from the meeting concerns qualification for future World Cups. While Associate members will likely be disappointed by the proposal that the tournament remains a 10-team event, some discussion has taken place around the possibility of only the top six teams in the ICC rankings qualifying automatically with the other four gaining qualification through a play-off tournament. Such criteria, even if accepted, is unlikely to be introduced until the 2023 tournament.Other matters dealt with the unanimous election of Saudi Arabia as the 39th Associate member, and the unanimous ratification of the suspensions of the USA Cricket Association (USACA) and the Cricket Association of Nepal (CAN). They were suspended in June 2015 and April 2016, respectively. An ICC delegation, including board members, will visit both suspended nations shortly.Both Nepal and the US are important Members of the ICC as they have tremendous talent and potential, ICC chairman Shashank Monohar said. The ICC, as part of its game and market development strategy, will continue to provide the countries with as much support as possible so that they can put in place good governance and cricket structures. Authentic Custom Jets Jersey .ca looks back at the stories and moments that made the year memorable. Custom Jets T-shirts . 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Simmonds, who won SM6 200m individual medley gold on Mondays fifth day, finished third in her favourite event, which she also won at London 2012.Ukraines Yelyzaveta Mereshko, the world record holder, won in a Paralympic record of five minutes 17.01 seconds. Song Lingling of China was second in five minutes 21.37 and Simmonds was third in five minutes 24.87. Her British teammate Ellie Robinson, who won S6 50m butterfly gold on day two, was fourth in five minutes 27.35.And 45 minutes later Weir, T54 1,500m champion in Beijing and at London 2012, finished fourth.Weir was patient, biding his time until the final lap. He reached the bell in seventh place and left himself too much to do as Thailands Prawat Wahoram took gold.I just didnt get the right wheel, said Weir, who was fifth over 400m on Monday. I saw Konjen was pretty quick in the semi and I thought I had his wheel.Maybe I shouldve got Prawats wheel, but everyone was trying to get his wheel. Its just a battle. Its a bit bumpy as well.I was quicker and better than I felt yesterday. Prawats been around for a long time as well. He was close to me in London as well. Hes a great athlete.Weir became a father for the fourth time on Sunday when partner Emily gave birth to the couples third child, Lenny -- but he insisted that momentous event was not a distraction.Im more relaxed thann ever because I know hes here and I know hes sound, Weir added.ddddddddddddYes, I was a bit gutted that I didnt see him, but now Ive seen pictures and I know everythings all right, Emilys all right. Im a happy man.Yes, I havent held him yet, but Ive got plenty of time to do that and bond with him when I get back. Thats not on my mind at all.Earlier on day six, Georgina Hermitage, Hollie Arnold and Rob Davies took Great Britains Paralympic Games gold medal haul to 31.Sprinter Hermitage won her second gold of the Rio Games with victory in the T37 400 metres and Arnold claimed F46 javelin glory.Stephen Miller took F32 club throw bronze and Davies triumphed in the Class 1 singles table tennis, emulating Will Bayleys success 24 hours earlier. There was also a bronze medal for Jamie Burdekin and Andy Lapthorne in the quad doubles tennis event. Lapthorne competes in the singles final on Wednesday.Piers Gilliver claimed Britains 70th medal of the Games with silver in the mens individual epee category A. The 21-year-old from Gloucestershire was beaten 15-13 by Sun Gang of China, who also defeated him at the World Championships earlier this year.Ollie Hynd took silver in the S8 100m backstroke. 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