The LA28 Games will be Los Angeles’ third time hosting the Olympic Games and the first time hosting the Paralympic Games. LA hosted the 1932 and 1984 Olympics Games. The last Summer Games held in the United States of America was Atlanta 1996.
The LA28 Games will be the biggest in Olympic history. Featuring 353 medal events in 40 sports, over 11,000 athletes are expected to compete in the Olympics.
With an expected Australian Team size of approximately 580 athletes, this could be Australia’s largest Team since Sydney 2000.
Baseball, cricket, flag football, lacrosse, softball and squash join the Olympic program as the new or returning sports in LA.
In other exciting event changes, a new obstacle (ninja warrior style) discipline replaces the equestrian leg of the modern pentathlon, coastal rowing is new to the program, and 50m swimming events have been added in backstroke, breaststroke and butterfly. There are new mixed team events in archery, athletics (4x100m), golf, gymnastics, table tennis and trap shooting.
Several iconic venues will host events including the Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum (hosting athletics in the opening week of the Games) - and the 40,000 capacity So-FI stadium which will host swimming in the second week of competition.
Universal Studios (Squash), The Valley (3x3 Basketball, BMX, Skateboarding, Modern Pentathlon), Trestles Beach (Surfing), Long Beach (Beach Volleyball, Coastal Rowing, Open Water Swimming, Shooting, Sport Climbing) and Venice Beach (Triathlon, Marathon, Road Cycling) will also be activated as Olympic venues.
The Olympic schedule can be viewed here
The LA28 Games will represent the creativity, diversity and youthful energy of the Los Angeles region.
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