The Summer Olympics will take place again in a familiar location in 2028, Los Angeles, which will host them for the third time.
As usual, the International Olympic Committee has given the green light to several new (and old) sports for 2028 and removed some others from the list of systems presented in Paris.
Los Angeles’ peak recently hosted the 1984 Games, when Mary Lou Retton stole the United States center and broke that of Romanian gymnast Ecaterina Szabo with a best “10” on her final jump to win the gold medal at the women’s all-around festival in Pavillon. Pauley. on the UCLA campus. To be the best or the worst, one journalist has summed up her options.
Gymnastics, like other major foreign competitions (athletics, water sports, basketball, volleyball, wrestling, cycling and fencing) will, of course, be part of the 2028 Olympic Games.
Flag football and squash were approved as first-time additions in Los Angeles, while baseball, softball, lacrosse and cricket will be added after periods of absence. Lacrosse has not been an Olympic game since 1908. Cricket was played once, in Paris in 1900.
Break dancing and perhaps boxing will be excluded. Skateboarding, climbing and surfing, once optional, will be permanent events in 2028, the IOC said.
The proposed budget for the 2028 Games is $6. 8 billion, according to President Casey Wasserman, and will be funded entirely through the sector.
Flag football will include medal competitions for men and women, with five-on-five bets on a 50-metre pitch, the IOC said. No offensive linemen allowed.
The World Squash Federation had tried for years to introduce the game to the Games before it was accepted in Los Angeles. Squash is a racquet game, like tennis and badminton at Olympic events, but it is played on a four-walled court.
Both sports are optional and may not continue at the 2023 Brisbane Games.
Baseball was added as a permanent game at the Barcelona Games in 1992 and fell after 2008 before returning uniquely to Tokyo in 2020. Cuba has won 3 of the first 4 gold medals, and the United States broke the streak in 2000 in Sydney. South Korea and Japan won the last two gold medals. IOC officials expect him to remain in Brisbane.
Team Japan celebrates United States’ defeat to win the Olympic gold medal at Tokyo 2020 (Photo by Steph Chambers/Getty Images).
Softball has been on the Olympic map five times, the most recently in 2020, when host country Japan won its second consecutive gold medal. The United States won the first 3 times. It will be an optional game in Los Angeles, the festival will take place in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, which is the site of the NCAA Women’s College World Series.
Lacrosse will feature six-on-six tournaments and medals will be awarded for the first time in 120 years. Canada won the only two gold medals, in 1904 and 1908. His B team won the bronze medal in 1904, and the game dropped out after Canada and Great Britain were the only competition in 1908.
Great Britain is a gold medallist in cricket, having won the Paris Games in 1900. Great Britain and France were the groups that competed.
American Frank Tate won the gold medal in the light middleweight category at the 1984 Olympic Games in Los Angeles. (Photo by Peter Read Miller/Sports Illustrated Getty Images) (Set number: X30349)
The IOC has withdrawn the popularity of the International Boxing Association (IBA) over what it sees as a failure to reform finance and governance, and the IBA has been preoccupied at the last two Olympics.
The IOC has postponed a decision on whether or not to include the sport until 2025, pending the formation of a new governing body. Boxing was founded in 1904 and has been a part of the medal program since 1920.
The so-called game of break dancing – “breaking” – threatens to become a marvel after its arrival in Paris.
Japan’s Ami Yuasa won the first gold medal in a “break” at the Paris 2024 Games. . . . [ ] (Photo via Ezra Shaw/Getty Images)
Breaking is not on the program for the Los Angeles Games, and sports leaders fear investment disruptions will save its reintegration in Brisbane.
Breaking is believed to have its roots in the South Bronx in the 1960s, and there were 4 American competitions among the 33 participants from 16 countries in Paris. Japan’s Ami Yuasa won the first gold medal on Friday.
“Breaking is my expression,” Yuasa said.
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