"2028 Olympics", "LA2028", "LA28", and "Los Angeles 2028" redirect here. For the Summer Paralympics, see2028 Summer Paralympics. For the Winter Youth Olympics in the Dolomites and Valtellina, see2028 Winter Youth Olympics.
Games of the XXXIV Olympiad
One of the many variations of the Los Angeles 2028 logo
The2028 Summer Olympics, officially theGames of the XXXIV Olympiad and commonly known asLos Angeles 2028 orLA 28, is an upcoming internationalmulti-sport event scheduled to take place from July 14 to 30, 2028, in theUnited States.Los Angeles will be thehost city, with various events also scheduled to be held at other cities spread across theGreater Los Angeles area,[3] plus two subsites inOklahoma City.[4][5]
Los Angeles had originallybid for the2024 Summer Olympics. Following multiple withdrawals, theInternational Olympic Committee (IOC) approved a process to concurrently award the 2024 and 2028 Games to Los Angeles andParis as the two remaining candidates; Paris was preferred as host for 2024, while Los Angeles agreed to host in 2028. Los Angeles was formally awarded the Games at the131st IOC Session inLima, Peru, on September 13, 2017. They will mark the fifth Summer Olympics, and ninth Olympics overall to be hosted by the United States; having previously hosted the Summer Olympics in1932 and1984, Los Angeles becomes the third three-time host city afterLondon (1908,1948,2012) and Paris (1900,1924,2024), and the first non-European city to do so. These will be the first Summer Olympics held under theIOC presidency ofKirsty Coventry.
After debuting in2020 as optional events,skateboarding,sport climbing, andsurfing have been promoted to the Summer Olympics' core event program. The Games will feature the debut offlag football andsquash as optional sports, joined by the return ofbaseball/softball,cricket (for the first time since 1900) andlacrosse (for the first time as a medal event since 1908).
On September 16, 2015, the International Olympic Committee announced the candidature process and the five candidate cities for the 2024 Games:Budapest,Hamburg, Los Angeles, Paris, andRome.[6] Budapest, Hamburg, and Rome eventually withdrew, leaving only Los Angeles and Paris.[7] A similar situation had already occurred during thebidding for the 2022 Winter Olympics whenKraków,Lviv,Oslo, andStockholm withdrew, resulting in a two-way decision betweenBeijing, China, andAlmaty, Kazakhstan, with Beijing ultimately declared the winner. On April 3, 2017, at the IOC convention in Denmark, Olympic officials met with bid committees from Los Angeles and Paris to discuss the possibility of naming two winners in the competition to host the 2024 Summer Games.
After these withdrawals, the IOC Executive Board met inLausanne, Switzerland, on June 9, 2017, to discuss the 2024 and 2028 bid processes.[8] The IOC formally proposed electing the 2024 and 2028 host cities at the same time in 2017, a proposal that an Extraordinary IOC Session approved on July 11, 2017, in Lausanne. The IOC set up a process where the Los Angeles and Paris 2024 bid committees and the IOC held meetings in July 2017 to decide which city would host in each of the two years.[9]
Following the decision to award the 2024 and 2028 Games simultaneously, Paris was understood to be preferred for the 2024 Games, as it would also mark the centennial of the1924 Summer Olympics in Paris.[10] On July 31, 2017, the IOC announced Los Angeles as the sole candidate for 2028, with $1.8 billion of additional funding from the IOC,[11] allowing Paris to be confirmed as the host for 2024. On August 11, 2017, theLos Angeles City Council voted unanimously to approve the bid.[12] On September 11, 2017, Los Angeles received formal approval from the IOC's evaluation commission.[13] On September 13, 2017, Los Angeles was formally awarded the 2028 Games following a unanimous vote by the IOC.[14] IOC presidentThomas Bach praised the LA bid for using a record-breaking number of existing and temporary facilities and for relying entirely on private funding.[15][16]
On October 16, 2017, LA 2028 received official endorsement from the state ofCalifornia.[17] On August 29, 2018, Olympic officials arrived for a two-day visit that included meetings with local organizers and a tour of the city's newest venues.[18] At the time,LMU andLA Times polls stated that more than 88% ofAngelenos were in favor of the city hosting the 2028 Olympic and Paralympic Games.[19] In March 2023, a poll conducted by Suffolk University and theLA Times indicated 57% of Angelenos believed the Olympics would be good for the city, while 20% indicated they thought it would have a negative impact.[20]
Los Angeles civic leaders initially announced a plan to make the 2028 Olympics "car-free", aiming to reduce congestion, shorten travel times, and comply with security restrictions that limit parking near venues.[21][22] TheTwenty-eight by '28 initiative, launched by former MayorEric Garcetti, aimed to complete 28 infrastructure projects before the Games.[23][24] Most projects were already in planning stages, but the initiative accelerated their completion. Funding comes fromMeasure R andMeasure M, countywide sales tax measures.[25] Mayor Karen Bass also promoted strategies such as encouraging remote work during the event to reduce demand on the transportation network.[26][27]
By March 2024, the original list of 28 projects was significantly revised, with 11 projects, including 5 rail line expansions, replaced by smaller projects considered more feasible to meet deadlines, including some projects that had already been completed.[28] By late 2024, observers expressed concern that only 5.2% of LA Metro’s $3.3 billion Olympic-related project list was funded, and several projects were running behind schedule. Officials also noted uncertainties related to government agency staffing, interagency coordination, and the late finalization of the Olympic venue list.[22] These challenges led civic leaders to pivot away from a fully "car-free" Games toward a "transit-first" approach.[21][29]
TheRegional Connector, completed in 2023, links Metro’s light rail lines in downtown Los Angeles, providing easier transfers between lines that serve Long Beach, the San Gabriel Valley, and Santa Monica, all of which will host Olympic competition venues.[34][35] TheK Line, which opened in October 2022 after multiple delays,[36] connects the Crenshaw District, Inglewood, and Westchester, and will connect witha people mover at LAX, now scheduled to open in June 2026 after several postponements.[37]
While many venues are located near existing rail lines, Los Angeles lacks the continuous, high-capacity subway system that supported past Olympic Games.[22] Consequently, buses are expected to serve as the primary mode of transportation for most spectators. Los Angeles Metro and Olympic organizers estimate that an additional 2,700 buses will be needed, effectively doubling thecurrent Metro fleet of 2,320 vehicles. Metro has requested that transit agencies nationwide donate buses near the end of their usable life for temporary Olympic service, potentially adding hundreds of vehicles.[38] Costs are estimated at $700 million to $1 billion, and through the Vision 2028 plan, Metro is seeking federal grants and coordinating post-Games resale of buses to other cities.[39][40][41] In February 2026, Metro announced that Congress has approved $94.3 million in mobility-related funding, including service planning, station experience enhancements, development of mobility hubs, light rail improvements, and planning and design for pedestrian access near Games venues as part of the Games Enhanced Transit System (GETS).[42]
Building on the legacy of the 1984 Los Angeles Olympics–the first to generate a profit through innovative corporate sponsorship and private funding–the 2028 Los Angeles Games are heavily relying on a similar, fully private financial model.[43][44] In April 2019, the estimated cost of the Games was assessed as being approximately $6.88 billion, with all the money coming from the private sector. The organizers adjusted the budget for inflation after LA, which originally bid for the 2024 Games, agreed to wait four more years.[45][46]
The City of Los Angeles is the lead public guarantor, committing to spend up to $250 million to cover shortfalls. In 2016, the California legislature took action so that the Governor is empowered to negotiate the next $250 million in public backup, but only after the city backup money has been used first. LA 2024 also agreed to purchase a wide range of insurance policies to cover financial relief in the event of natural disaster, terrorism, event cancellation, as well as reduced ticket sales. The Games are expected to generate as much as they cost, with $2.5 billion coming in through sponsorships and nearly $2 billion earned through ticket sales. Average ticket prices for the Games will range between $13 and $457 (in 2016 dollars).[46] Over $2 billion in sponsorships were secured by late 2025, surpassing the2024 Paris Games more than two years early.[44]
Security will be handled by the U.S. federal government with an agreement signed by the LA organizing committee andDepartment of Homeland Security (DHS) in February 2020, but it will not be involved in the Games' funding, covering only the aforementioned security costs.[47]
Casey Wasserman has stated that there will be no issues with the federal government on obtaining visas for athletes, security and delivery at the144th IOC Session, emphasizing that they have received bipartisan support from all previous U.S. presidents, includingDonald Trump. LA28 officials met with then President-elect Trump atMar-a-Lago in January 2025 and his administration pledged to help Los Angeles recover from thewildfires, and hold "the greatest games".[48][49][50] In July 2025, $1 billion in funding was earmarked for aHomeland Security Grant Program for federal security and planning costs as part of theOne Big Beautiful Bill Act.[51]
TheLos Angeles Memorial Coliseum (left) andSoFi Stadium (named "2028 Stadium" during the games) (right) will host the ceremonies, as well as the athletics and swimming events respectively.
The Coliseum underwent a major renovation and restoration program from 2017 to 2019.[63] A new press box,loge boxes, and club seats were installed.[64][65] Crypto.com Arena underwent renovations completed in 2024,[66] and theNBA'sLos Angeles Clippers opened a new arena inInglewood known as Intuit Dome the same year.[67][68]
To reduce costs and use more pre-existing facilities, LA28 announced changes to its venue plans in June 2024. The temporary aquatics venue that was scheduled to be built at USC'sDedeaux Field was scrapped, in favor of holding swimming at SoFi Stadium and artistic swimming in Long Beach. Diving was originally set for the historicLA84 Foundation/John C. Argue Swim Stadium (which was built for the 1932 Games) but was later changed to the Rose Bowl Aquatic Center in Pasadena due to cost and safety concerns in September 2025.[69] With a planned configuration for 38,000 spectators, SoFi Stadium will be the largest swimming venue in Olympic history. Equestrian will return toSanta Anita Park once again, as Arcadia had previously hosted the event in 1984, whilesoftball andcanoe slalom were moved to existing venues inOklahoma City,Oklahoma, instead of building new venues in Los Angeles County.[4][5][59]
In February 2026, the six preliminary association football (soccer) venues were announced. The match schedule, which will be unveiled before April 2026, will allow the competition to progressively move east to west as teams advance to the final stages, minimizing travel demands.[70]
The opening ceremonies will be held on July 14, 2028, and will be co-hosted by the Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum and SoFi Stadium. The Coliseum will host the closing ceremonies.[72] Filmmaker and media executivePeter Rice was named "head of ceremonies and content" for LA 2028, overseeing the ceremonies for both the Olympics and Paralympics. Wasserman did not specifically state a planned budget, but said that he would provide Rice with any resources he needs. Referencing theU.S. film and television industry's status of an American cultural export, Wasserman explained that "when you think about what we expect of ourselves and what the world is going to expect of us, clearly we're the creative capital of the world andHollywood is a big piece of that, but we better knock people's socks off."[73]Ben Winston will serve as executive producer and creative director, alongside veteran Olympic and Paralympic ceremonies producer Scott Givens. The ceremony will be produced by FulFive, a new joint-venture production company betweenFulwell 73 and FiveCurrents.[74]
The concept of using both stadiums had been discussed by the Los Angeles bid committee as early as 2017; it proposed that aprologue to the opening ceremony could be held at the Coliseum (culminating with the launch of the final leg of the torch relay to Inglewood) with the rest of the protocol beingsimulcast from SoFi Stadium on screens, and the closing ceremony likewise beginning at SoFi Stadium and concluding at the Coliseum.[2]
Skateboarding(pictured),surfing, andsport climbing will be inducted into the core Olympic program, after being selected as discretionary sports at the previous two editions of the games.
The 2028 Summer Olympics is expected to include 351 medal events in 36 sports, an increase of 22 events and four sports over the2024 Summer Olympics;[75][76] this includes 31 mandatory "core" sports, and five optional sports that were proposed by the organizing committee to help improve local interest. The core program consists of the 28 core sports contested since2016, along with skateboarding,sport climbing, andsurfing—three sports that have been officially promoted to the core program after being contested as optional sports in 2020 and 2024.[77][78][79][80] The five optional sports will include the Olympic debuts offlag football (a non-contact variant ofgridiron football) andsquash, the return ofbaseball/softball for the first time since 2020, the return ofcricket for the first time since 1900, andlacrosse for the first time since 1908.[81][82]
Cricket will consist of men's and women's tournaments using theTwenty20 (T20) format, with six teams each.[83] Flag football will consist of men's and women's tournaments.[84] On May 20, 2025, theNational Football League announced that it had reached an agreement with its team owners to potentially allow their players to compete in the men's flag football tournament, pending agreements with the league'splayers' union.[85][86] In November 2025, theCanadian Football League (whose regular season falls during the Olympics) announced a similar allowance.[87][88]
Lacrosse will utilize thelacrosse sixes format.[89] There have been calls from American and Canadian officials (including then-President,Joe Biden, and Prime MinisterJustin Trudeau) to allow a special dispensation for theHaudenosaunee Nationals (formerly Iroquois Nationals) to compete in the Olympics, due to the historical significance of lacrosse to theHaudenosaunee people.World Lacrosse recognizes Haudenosaunee as a member and it has competed in world championships, but it does not have aNational Olympic Committee; its players could still theoretically play for the Canada or the United States teams, but most have stated that they would only play for Haudenosaunee.[89]
Of the 16 new disciplines proposed by existing Olympic sports,beach sprint rowing was the only one to be accepted by the IOC. It will replace thelightweight double sculls category, and consist of individual events for men and women as well as a mixed double sculls event.[90] Modern pentathlon is expected to employ a new format which replacesshow jumping withobstacle course racing.[78]
On April 9, 2025, the IOC announced new events in multiple sports, including a 4 × 100m mixed relay in athletics, the addition of 50m backstroke, butterfly, and breaststroke events in swimming, and mixed teamcompound archery (the discipline's Olympic debut), all-round artistic gymnastics, golf, and table tennis events. In sport climbing, the combinedboulder-and-lead event will be replaced by separate competitions for each discipline, expanding it to six medal events. It was also announced that 3x3 basketball would be expanded to 12 teams, one additional women's weight class would be added to boxing for parity with the men's events, women's water polo would be expanded to 12 teams for parity with the men's tournament, while thewomen's football (soccer) tournament would expand from 12 to 16 due to the increasing popularity of the sport.[91][92] The men's football tournament will be reduced from 16 to 12 teams, while the controversialmarathon race walk mixed relay introduced in 2024 was dropped. With these changes, the 2028 Summer Olympics will be the first to have more female than male athletes.[93][75] On September 19, 2025, the IOC announced that one additional weightlifting weight class per gender would be contested.[94]
Since 2020, the program of the Summer Olympics has consisted of mandatory core sports that persist between Games, and up to six optional sports proposed by the organizing committee in order to improve local interest.[95][96][97] On December 9, 2021, the IOC executive board proposed that skateboarding, sport climbing, and surfing, which all successfully debuted as optional sports at the2020 Summer Olympics, and returned in the same capacity in2024,[98][99] be promoted to the core program of the 2028 Summer Olympics to replaceboxing,modern pentathlon, andweightlifting, which were provisionally dropped from the program pending the resolution of governance issues, with the IOC setting a deadline of 2023:[80]
TheInternational Boxing Association (IBA) was suspended by the IOC in 2019 for governance, financial, and corruption issues, which resulted in boxing at the2020 and2024 Games being overseen by an external, IOC task force. Governance concerns increased following the election ofUmar Kremlev as its president in December 2020 due to his opposition to the independent appointment of judges and officials, and allegations of increasing Russian influence (including moving some of its operations to Russia, and his appointment of state-owned oil and gas companyGazprom as the organization's main sponsor in 2021). The IBA had also stifled attempts by candidates to challenge Kremlev's presidency, and lifted an IOC-recommended ban on Russian and Belarusian athletes (in response to theRussian invasion of Ukraine) in October 2022.[100] A competing governing body known asWorld Boxing was established in April 2023 by a consortium of national federations that had expressed concerns over the impact of the Russian invasion of Ukraine on the IBA, and the future of boxing as an Olympic event. In June 2023, the IOC executive board voted to strip the IBA of its recognition, citing a lack of progress since the original suspension.[101][102][103]
TheUnion Internationale de Pentathlon Moderne (UIPM) was seeking approval for its proposed replacement of show jumping in the modern pentathlon withobstacle course racing;[98][104][105][106] the campaign to replace riding was motivated primarily by incidents during thewomen's modern pentathlon at the 2020 Summer Olympics, which saw German team coachKim Raisner disqualified after she hit a horse that did not follow the instructions of jockeyAnnika Schleu.[107] The UIPM ratified the changes in November 2022, and they are expected to officially take effect for senior competition after the 2024 Summer Olympics.[104]
In August 2022, the LA Organizing Committee shortlisted nine proposed sports for consideration as optional events for these Olympics:baseball/softball,breaking (breakdance),cricket,flag football,karate,kickboxing,lacrosse,squash, andmotorsport.[108] On October 9, 2023, the Organizing Committee announced that they had officially submitted baseball/softball, cricket, flag football, lacrosse, and squash for consideration by the IOC.[106] All five sports were approved at the141st IOC Session in Mumbai, India.[81] The IOC also reinstated modern pentathlon and weightlifting for the core program, citing that the sports' governing bodies had made sufficient efforts in carrying out reforms.[77][78] The IOC withheld a decision on boxing due to the IBA's expulsion and insufficient reach by World Boxing;[77][78] in February 2025, the IOC granted provisional recognition to World Boxing, citing its progress on reach and commitments to integrity.[109][110][111]
On March 20, 2025, at the144th IOC Session in Greece, the IOC voted unanimously to approve a recommendation by the IOC Executive Board to reinstate boxing, with the event being sanctioned by World Boxing.[79]
Notwithstanding the approval of cricket by the IOC, USA Cricket is not currently certified as a national governing body by theUnited States Olympic & Paralympic Committee (USOPC), which would be required in order for the sport to be contested. The ICC has previously warned that USA Cricket's governance would need to be reformed in order to meet USOPC standards, and began a process to "reset" the organization to meet them.[112][113]
In order to facilitate use of SoFi Stadium for both the opening ceremonies and swimming, the scheduling of swimming and athletics events will be reversed. Athletics events will take place during the first week of the Games instead, during which SoFi Stadium will be reconfigured to uncover the pool in preparation for swimming competition during the second week. This will be the first time since the1968 Summer Olympics inMexico City that athletics competitions will take place in the first week of the Games.[4][5]
On July 13, 2025, the organizing committee published the first version of the competition schedule.[114][115][116][117] On November 12, 2025, an updated comprehensive competition schedule by event was released, outlining when every medal event will take place during the upcoming Olympic Games in Los Angeles, with details across all confirmed sports and venues.[118][119]
On September 1, 2020, the LA28 Organizing Committee unveiled the emblem for the 2028 Summer Olympics, featuring the characters "LA" and "28" in a stacked layout. The "A" in "LA" was designed to be interchangeable, with numerous variations created in collaboration with athletes, artists, designers, and celebrities, includingBillie Eilish,Lilly Singh, andReese Witherspoon. Variants have also included designs honoring the1984 Summer Olympics "Stars in Motion" emblem, a French–U.S. flag version used during the handover celebration at theclosing of the Paris 2024 Games, and a "Black Mamba"-inspired design paying tribute toKobe Bryant.[120][121]
Organizing committee chair Casey Wasserman stated that the variations were intended to "showcase our community's collective creativity and celebrate the diversity that makes us strong", reflecting a city that "defies a singular identity". Chief marketing officer Amy Gleeson said the emblem was designed to connect with an audience who will be in their 20s and 30s when the Games take place.[122][120]
The LA2028 OCOG partnered withNBCUniversal—owner of the U.S. media rights to the Olympics—to coordinate sponsorship sales for the Games. As part of the agreement and its sponsorship with theUnited States Olympic & Paralympic Committee (USOPC), NBCU parent companyComcast will be billed as a "Founding Partner" of LA 2028.[123] For the first time in Olympic and Paralympic history, venues will be permitted to carrynaming rights. Existing venues that already bear the names of Olympic partners may retain those names, while venues sponsored companies not affiliated with the Olympics will be referred to by a generic alternate name under the IOC's standard policy. Temporary venues may also display the names of sponsors. Executive director Paul Krekorian commented that the new policy is intended to "ensure the success of the Games while also protecting our taxpayers," while Casey Wasserman expected the new naming rights arrangements to help build a new commercial model for the Olympics.[43][124][125]
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