The flag soccer and lacrosse competitions on the Los Angeles 2028 Olympics shall be held at BMO Stadium, Video games organisers stated on Friday after an up to date plan was authorized by the Los Angeles Metropolis Council.
The 22,000-seat soccer stadium in Exposition Park sits adjoining to the LA Memorial Coliseum and is the house of Main League Soccer’s Los Angeles FC and the Nationwide Ladies’s Soccer League’s Angel Metropolis FC.
Flag soccer will make its Olympic debut in 2028 whereas lacrosse will return as an Olympic medal sport for the primary time in over a century. Baseball/softball, cricket and squash spherical out the 5 occasions added to the game program.
Sources with direct data of the matter informed Reuters they anticipate the boys’s flag soccer last to be held on Friday 28 July, with the ladies’s last to be staged the next day.
The dates will assist maximize publicity for the brand new Olympic sport as they won’t conflict with the athletics occasions after they have been moved to the primary week of the Video games.
A number of sports activities have been additionally confirmed for the San Fernando Valley, which can host Olympic occasions for the primary time.
Along with BMX freestyle, BMX racing, and park and road skateboarding, the Sepulveda Basin Recreation Space will host fashionable pentathlon and 3×3 basketball.
“Los Angeles will host an unimaginable lineup of sports activities together with a number of the hottest, dynamic and latest occasions that are distinctive to LA28 and shall be performed throughout town, together with within the Valley, for the primary time in Olympic historical past,” stated LA28 CEO, Reynold Hoover.
“This venue plan units the stage for the 2028 Olympic and Paralympic Video games to have interaction each a part of our metropolis like no Video games in historical past,” LA mayor Karen Bass stated.
The LA28 Olympics shall be held from 14-30 July.
