2028 Olympics - New Events

[skatingguy]

• Football: 16 women's teams, and 12 men's teams.
• Boxing will have an equal number of weight categories
• Water Polo will have two additional women's teams
• mixed events in archery, athletics (4x100m mixed relay), golf, gymnastics, rowing coastal beach sprint, and table tennis team event
• Swimming: 50m events will be added for the other 3 strokes (6 additional events)
• Rowing: solo, and mixed double sculls in beach coastal sprint
• Sport Climbing: boulder, and lead events will be separated
• Basketball 3x3: expanded to 12 teams

https://www.olympics.com/ioc/news/la28-event-programme-marks-strong-commitment-towards-innovation-and-gender-equality

 

[ilovesalchows]

Ugh. As if the gymnasts were exhausted enough in Paris.

 

[caseyedwards]

Olympics needs less swimming not more!! This is the keep Americans winning the most medals and happy policy

 

[MacMadame]

So is Football, real football (what we call soccer) or is it American Football?

 

[Vagabond]

 

[skatingguy]

So is Football, real football (what we call soccer) or is it American Football?

Soccer - what's new is the increase in the number of women's teams.

 

[ice coverage]

Soccer - what's new is the increase in the number of women's teams.

Also new for soccer is the decrease in the number of men's teams for 2028.

 

[MacMadame]

I saw football at the '84 Olympics. So I was confused because it's not a new sport for the Olympics.

 

[Seerek]

• mixed events in archery, athletics (4x100m mixed relay), golf, gymnastics, rowing coastal beach sprint, and table tennis team event

https://www.olympics.com/ioc/news/la28-event-programme-marks-strong-commitment-towards-innovation-and-gender-equality

What they didn't make clear in the article is that they're adding a mixed event in compound archery, which was not normally in the Olympic programme before (all individual and team events had been in recurve archery only).

 

[Rob]

Ugh. As if the gymnasts were exhausted enough in Paris.

Could have put Hezly in for mixed team!

 

[barbk]

What is a mixed event in gymnastics? Who qualifies?

 

[skatingguy]

What is a mixed event in gymnastics? Who qualifies?

We don't know for sure yet - details have not been finalized.

How the artistic gymnastics mixed-gender team final could work at the LA 2028 Olympics - Gymnastics Now

For the first time in nearly 80 years, the Olympic artistic gymnastics program is adding an event for the Los Angeles 2028 Games: a mixed-gender team final.

gymnastics-now.com

 

[Rob]

NFL owners vote to permit players to participate in 2028 Summer Olympics flag football

 

[vgerdes]

So is Football, real football (what we call soccer) or is it American Football?

It's flag football, of the American variety. Soccer has been an Olympic sport since the 1900 Summer Olympics in Paris.

 

[Cachoo]

I've heard flag football at the Olympics come up a lot among professional football players and they are so onboard. I'm sure they never believed they would have any shot at being Olympians unless they moved to another sport. I do remember a few bobsledders who played professionally.

 

[Karen-W]

I've heard flag football at the Olympics come up a lot among professional football players and they are so onboard. I'm sure they never believed they would have any shot at being Olympians unless they moved to another sport. I do remember a few bobsledders who played professionally.

I think there are a handful who also have done track, but not many, especially in recent years. I think Devon Allen may be the most well-known/successful NFL player to also compete at a high level in track.

 

[vgerdes]

I've heard flag football at the Olympics come up a lot among professional football players and they are so onboard. I'm sure they never believed they would have any shot at being Olympians unless they moved to another sport. I do remember a few bobsledders who played professionally.

Yep. They're stoked.

Justin Jefferson discusses playing Olympic flag football: 'It's a dream'

 

[Theatregirl1122]

I'm trying to imagine what flag soccer would look like.

 

[Vagabond]

Would they be national flags?