2028 Summer Olympics

The 2028 Summer Olympics, officially called the Games of the XXXIV Olympiad, will be a big international multi-sport event happening from July 14 to 30, 2028, in the United States. The main city where the Olympics will take place is Los Angeles, but some events will also be in other places around the Greater Los Angeles area and in Oklahoma City.

Los Angeles first wanted to host the 2024 Summer Olympics, but later agreed to host the 2028 Games when the International Olympic Committee decided to award the 2024 Games to Paris and the 2028 Games to Los Angeles at the same time. This will be the fifth time the United States has hosted the Summer Olympics and the third time for Los Angeles, making it only the third city ever to host the Summer Olympics three times. The other two cities are London and Paris.

New sports will join the Olympics in 2028. Skateboarding, sport climbing, and surfing, which were optional in past Games, are now official parts of the Olympics. New optional sports include flag football and squash. Other sports coming back after many years are baseball/softball, cricket, and lacrosse.

Bidding process

Main article: Bids for the 2024 and 2028 Summer Olympics

In 2015, five cities were chosen to compete to host the 2024 Summer Olympics: Budapest, Hamburg, Los Angeles, Paris, and Rome. Over time, Budapest, Hamburg, and Rome decided not to continue, leaving only Los Angeles and Paris. In 2017, the International Olympic Committee decided to choose both the 2024 and 2028 hosts together. Paris was chosen for 2024 to celebrate the 100th anniversary of the 1924 Summer Olympics in that city. Los Angeles was then chosen to host the 2028 Olympics. The city’s leaders and the International Olympic Committee all agreed to this decision. Many people in Los Angeles supported the idea of hosting the Olympics.

Development and preparations

Further information: Twenty-eight by '28

Los Angeles leaders wanted the 2028 Olympics to help traffic by using fewer cars. They planned many projects to make travel easier, but some were delayed. They also wanted to encourage people to stay home during the event.

Several train lines are being built or changed to help people get around during the Olympics. One line will connect to the Olympic Village, and another will link different parts of the city.

Buses will also play a big role in moving people. Los Angeles will need many extra buses, and they are asking other cities to lend some of their buses for the event.

Budget

The 2028 Olympics in Los Angeles will rely mostly on private money, like the successful 1984 Games. The city will help if there are money problems, but most funds come from sponsors and ticket sales. Tickets will cost between $13 and $457.

Security

Security for the Olympics will be handled by U.S. government agencies. This is because the Olympics will be a big national security event, similar to past games after major attacks.

Venues

Main article: Venues of the 2028 Summer Olympics and Paralympics

Many events will take place in and around Los Angeles, using existing stadiums and arenas. The Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum and SoFi Stadium will host opening and closing ceremonies, plus some sports. Other venues include Crypto.com Arena for gymnastics and Intuit Dome for basketball.

Some sports will happen outside Los Angeles, like football matches in cities such as New York and San Diego.

Olympic torch

The Olympic torch will travel through all 50 U.S. states before the Games, helping to bring people together.

Tickets

People can start registering for tickets in January 2026, with sales beginning in March. There will be about 14 million tickets available, including 1 million for just $28.

The Games

Ceremonies

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. Filmmaker and media executive Peter 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 the U.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 and Hollywood is a big piece of that, but we better knock people’s socks off."

Ben Winston will serve as executive producer and creative director, alongside veteran ceremony producer Scott Givens; production will be overseen by FulFive, a joint venture between Winston and Given’s respective companies Fulwell 73 and FiveCurrents.

The concept of using both stadiums had been discussed by the Los Angeles bid committee as early as 2017; it proposed that a prologue 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 being simulcast from SoFi Stadium on screens, and the closing ceremony likewise beginning at SoFi Stadium and concluding at the Coliseum.

Sports

The 2028 Summer Olympics is expected to include 353 medal events in 36 sports, an increase of 22 events and four sports over Paris 2024; this includes 31 mandatory "core" sports, and five optional sports that were proposed by LAOCOG to help improve local interest. The core program consists of the 28 core sports contested since 2016, along with skateboarding, sport climbing, and surfing—three sports that have been officially promoted to the core program after being contested as optional sports in 2020 and 2024. The five optional sports will include the Olympic debuts of flag football (a non-contact variant of gridiron football) and squash, the return of baseball/softball for the first time since 2020, the return of cricket for the first time since 1900, and lacrosse for the first time since 1908.

Cricket will consist of men’s and women’s tournaments using the Twenty20 (T20) format, with six teams each. Flag football will consist of men’s and women’s tournaments. On May 20, 2025, the National 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’s players’ union. In November 2025, the Canadian Football League (whose regular season falls during the Olympics) announced a similar allowance.

Lacrosse will utilize the lacrosse sixes format. There have been calls from American and Canadian officials (including then-President, Joe Biden, and then-Prime Minister Justin Trudeau) to allow a special dispensation for the Haudenosaunee Nationals (formerly Iroquois Nationals) to compete in the Olympics, due to the historical significance of lacrosse to the Haudenosaunee people. World Lacrosse recognizes Haudenosaunee as a member and it has competed in world championships, but it does not have a National 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.

Beach sprint rowing will replace the lightweight double sculls category, and consist of individual events for men and women as well as a mixed double sculls event. Modern pentathlon is expected to employ a new format which replaces show jumping with obstacle course racing.

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 team gymnastics, compound archery (the discipline’s Olympic debut), golf, and table tennis events. In sport climbing, the combined boulder-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 the women’s football (soccer) tournament would expand from 12 to 16 due to the increasing popularity of the sport. The men’s football tournament will be reduced from 16 to 12 teams, while the marathon 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. On September 19, 2025, the IOC announced that weightlifting would be expanded to six bodyweight classes per-gender (with no change in athlete quota) to be better-aligned with the International Weightlifting Federation (IWF)’s new bodyweight classes, and disincentivize "extreme weight reduction".

• Aquatics
  •  Artistic swimming (2)
  •  Diving (8)
  •  Marathon swimming (2)
  •  Swimming (41)
  •  Water polo (2)
•  Archery (6)
•  Athletics (48)
•  Badminton (5)
• Baseball/softball
  •  Baseball (1)
  •  Softball (1)
•  Basketball
  •  Basketball (2)
  •  3x3 basketball (2)
•  Boxing (14)
•  Canoeing
  •  Canoe sprint (10)
  •  Slalom canoeing (6)
•  Cricket (2)
•  Cycling
  •  BMX freestyle (2)
  •  BMX racing (2)
  •  Mountain biking (2)
  •  Road cycling (4)
  •  Track cycling (12)
•  Equestrian
  •  Dressage (2)
  •  Eventing (2)
  •  Jumping (2)
•  Fencing (12)
•  Field hockey (2)
•  Flag football (2)
•  Football (2)
•  Golf (3)
•  Gymnastics
  •  Artistic gymnastics (15)
  •  Rhythmic gymnastics (2)
  •  Trampoline (2)
•  Handball (2)
•  Judo (15)
•  Lacrosse (2)
•  Modern pentathlon (2)
•  Rowing
  •  Rowing (12)
  •  Coastal rowing (3)
•  Rugby sevens (2)
•  Sailing (10)
•  Shooting (15)
•  Skateboarding (4)
•  Sport climbing (6)
•  Squash (2)
•  Surfing (2)
•  Table tennis (6)
•  Taekwondo (8)
•  Tennis (5)
•  Triathlon (3)
•  Volleyball
  •  Beach volleyball (2)
  •  Volleyball (2)
•  Weightlifting (12)
•  Wrestling
  •  Freestyle wrestling (12)
  •  Greco-Roman wrestling (6)

New sports

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. On December 9, 2021, the IOC executive board proposed that skateboarding, sport climbing, and surfing, which all successfully debuted as optional sports at the 2020 Summer Olympics, and returned in the same capacity in 2024, be promoted to the core program of the 2028 Summer Olympics to replace boxing, modern pentathlon, and weightlifting, which were provisionally dropped from the program pending the resolution of governance issues, with the IOC setting a deadline of 2023:

• The International Boxing Association (IBA) was suspended by the IOC in 2019 for governance, financial, and corruption issues, which resulted in boxing at the 2020 and 2024 Games being overseen by an external, IOC task force. Governance concerns increased following the election of Umar 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 company Gazprom 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 the Russian invasion of Ukraine) in October 2022. A competing governing body known as World 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.
• The International Weightlifting Federation (IWF) faced issues with doping and governance, resulting in weightlifting being considered "provisional" for the 2024 Summer Olympics. In 2022, the IWF elected Mohammed Hasan Jalood as its new president, and he oversaw reforms to the organization, including agreeing to delegate its drug testing to the International Testing Agency and to participate in the Court of Arbitration for Sport.
• The Union Internationale de Pentathlon Moderne (UIPM) was seeking approval for its proposed replacement of show jumping in the modern pentathlon with obstacle course racing; the campaign to replace riding was motivated primarily by incidents during the women’s modern pentathlon at the 2020 Summer Olympics, which saw German team coach Kim Raisner disqualified after she hit a horse that did not follow the instructions of jockey Annika Schleu. The UIPM ratified the changes in November 2022, and they are expected to officially take effect for senior competition after the 2024 Summer Olympics.

In August 2022, LAOCOG shortlisted nine proposed sports for consideration as optional events for these Olympics: baseball/softball, breaking (breakdance), cricket, flag football, karate, kickboxing, lacrosse, squash, and motorsport. On October 9, 2023, LAOCOG announced that they had officially submitted baseball/softball, cricket, flag football, lacrosse, and squash for consideration by the IOC. All five sports were approved at the 141st IOC Session in Mumbai, India. 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. The IOC withheld a decision on boxing due to the IBA’s expulsion and insufficient reach by World Boxing; in February 2025, the IOC granted provisional recognition to World Boxing, citing its progress on reach and commitments to integrity.

On March 20, 2025, at the 144th 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.

Notwithstanding the approval of cricket by the IOC, USA Cricket is not currently certified as a national governing body by the United 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.

Participating National Olympic Committees

As of March 31, 2026, five nations have qualified for the 2028 Summer Olympics. In 2025, the International Olympic Committee is looking at ways to include more nations, including possibly Russia and Belarus, even though there is a conflict between Russia and Ukraine. The leader of the committee, Kirsty Coventry, supports this idea to keep the Olympics open to everyone.

Calendar

On July 13, 2025, the group planning the games shared the first schedule of events. Then, on November 12, 2025, they shared a full schedule showing when each event will happen during the Olympics in Los Angeles.

To let SoFi Stadium be used for both the opening ceremonies and swimming, the order of swimming and athletics events was changed. Athletics will happen in the first week, and the stadium will be changed to get the pool ready for swimming in the second week. This is the first time since the 1968 Summer Olympics in Mexico City that athletics will happen in the first week of the Games.

All times and dates use Pacific Daylight Time (UTC-7).

Marketing

Branding

On September 1, 2020, the group organizing the 2028 Summer Olympics showed the Games' new symbol. It shows "LA" and "28" stacked together. The letter "A" in "LA" can change, and many different versions were made with help from athletes, artists, designers, and famous people like Billie Eilish, Lilly Singh, and Reese Witherspoon. Some versions remember the design from the 1984 Summer Olympics, one uses the flags of France and the United States, and another honors basketball player Kobe Bryant, who won two Olympic gold medals with the U.S. men's team. For the first time, the symbol also has versions to show support for official sponsors like Delta Air Lines and broadcaster NBC.

The leader of the organizing group, Casey Wasserman, said these different versions show the creativity of the community and celebrate what makes the city strong. The chief marketing officer, Amy Gleeson, said the symbol was made for people who will be in their 20s and 30s during the Games.

On March 28, 2026, the organizing group showed the full branding for the Games, called "LA in full bloom". It was created by a company in Culver City named Koto. The design is inspired by a special time in California when many flowers bloom, showing 13 different patterns that can form looping designs. These patterns represent the people, life, and culture of Los Angeles and remember the bright, happy styles of past Olympics in Los Angeles. The colors come from the Strelitzia, Los Angeles' official flower, including poppy, scarlet flax, bluebell, and sagebrush. The branding also uses several types of letters inspired by street signs in the city.

Corporate sponsorship

The group for LA2028 worked with NBCUniversal, which owns the U.S. media rights to the Olympics, to manage sponsorship sales for the Games. As part of this, and because of its partnership with the United States Olympic & Paralympic Committee, the parent company Comcast will be called a "Founding Partner" of LA 2028.

For the first time in Olympic history, places where events happen can show the name of their sponsor during the Games, if that sponsor is a Worldwide Olympic Partner or a Founding Partner of LA28. The organizing group also plans to sell naming rights for temporary places. The executive director, Paul Krekorian, said this new rule is meant to help the Games succeed while protecting taxpayers. Wasserman thinks this will create a new business model for the Olympics, like Los Angeles did in 1984.

Broadcasting rights

Main article: List of 2028 Summer Olympics broadcasters

In the United States, the 2028 Summer Olympics will be shown on NBCUniversal and Versant properties. This is because of a long agreement that will last until 2036. The parent company, Comcast, will help with broadcasting services and work on digital advertising in the U.S. In January 2026, Comcast and NBCUniversal created a new company called Versant, which will continue to show Olympics coverage on channels like CNBC and USA Network. Hollywood Park Studios will be the place for the International Broadcast Centre during the Games.