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