2028 Summer Olympics

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, and Rome. Budapest, Hamburg, and Rome eventually withdrew, leaving only Los Angeles and Paris. A similar situation had already occurred during the bidding for the 2022 Winter Olympics when Kraków, Lviv, Oslo, and Stockholm withdrew, resulting in a two-way decision between Beijing, China, and Almaty, 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 in Lausanne, Switzerland, on June 9, 2017, to discuss the 2024 and 2028 bid processes. 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. 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 the 1924 Summer Olympics in Paris. 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, allowing Paris to be confirmed as the host for 2024. On August 11, 2017, the Los Angeles City Council voted unanimously to approve the bid. On September 11, 2017, Los Angeles received formal approval from the IOC's evaluation commission. On September 13, 2017, Los Angeles was formally awarded the 2028 Games following a unanimous vote by the IOC. IOC president Thomas Bach praised the LA bid for using a record-breaking number of existing and temporary facilities and for relying entirely on private funding. On October 16, 2017, LA 2028 received official endorsement from the state of California. 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. At the time, LMU and LA Times polls stated that more than 88% of Angelenos were in favor of the city hosting the 2028 Olympic and Paralympic Games. In March 2023, a poll conducted by Suffolk University and the LA 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. ==Development and preparations==

Transportation train in Inglewood, a major events cluster train at Wilshire/Western station 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. The Twenty-eight by '28 initiative, launched by former Mayor Eric Garcetti, aimed to complete 28 infrastructure projects before the Games. Most projects were already in planning stages, but the initiative accelerated their completion. Funding comes from Measure R and Measure M, countywide sales tax measures. Mayor Karen Bass also promoted strategies such as encouraging remote work during the event to reduce demand on the transportation network. 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. 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. Rail projects Several major rail expansions are underway to support Olympic transportation. The D Line extension is being completed in three phases: the first phase will extend service from Wilshire/Western to Wilshire/La Cienega by early 2026; the second phase will continue to Century City by late 2026; and the third phase will reach the West Los Angeles VA Medical Center by 2027, including a station near UCLA that will connect the Olympic Village to downtown venues. Construction began in 2014 and remains largely on schedule. The Regional 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. The K Line, which opened in October 2022 after multiple delays, connects the Crenshaw District, Inglewood, and Westchester, and will connect with a people mover at LAX, now scheduled to open in June 2026 after several postponements. Bus fleet expansion While many venues are located near existing rail lines, Los Angeles lacks the continuous, high-capacity subway system that supported past Olympic Games. 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. 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). Budget 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. 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. 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). The Olympics are the second to take place in the United States since the September 11 attacks in 2001. Like the 2002 Winter Olympics in Salt Lake City, which took place five months after that attack, the United States Department of Homeland Security will designate the Olympics a National Special Security Event (NSSE). Due to this designation, the United States Secret Service will be in charge of security and will head a single chain of command. In July 2025, $1 billion in funding was earmarked for a Homeland Security Grant Program for federal security and planning costs as part of the One Big Beautiful Bill Act. Venues Like the 1984 Summer Olympics, a majority of the 2028 Summer Olympics will be hosted in venues around the Greater Los Angeles area. The city's bid relied primarily on existing venues and venues that had already been under construction or were planned regardless of the Games. The majority of venues are divided into clusters known as "sports parks", situated in downtown Los Angeles, the San Fernando Valley, Carson (at California State University, Dominguez Hills), and Long Beach. No new permanent venues are being built specifically for the Games. Like the 1984 Summer Games, the Olympic Village will be situated on the University of California, Los Angeles campus, while the University of Southern California will host the Media Village. The Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum will host athletics and the Rose Bowl will host football (soccer), respectively. Both will become the first stadiums to have ever hosted three different Olympic Games. Crypto.com Arena will host gymnastics, and Intuit Dome will host basketball. Riviera Country Club will host golf. Cricket will be held at a temporary stadium at the Fairplex in Pomona, California. The Coliseum underwent a major renovation and restoration program from 2017 to 2019. A new press box, loge boxes, and club seats were installed. Crypto.com Arena underwent renovations completed in 2024, and the NBA's Los Angeles Clippers opened a new arena in Inglewood known as Intuit Dome the same year. 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's Dedeaux Field was scrapped, in favor of holding swimming at SoFi Stadium and artistic swimming in Long Beach. Diving was originally set for the historic LA84 Foundation/John C. Argue Swim Stadium (which was built for the 1932 Games) but was later changed (in September 2025) to the Rose Bowl Aquatic Center in Pasadena due to cost and safety concerns. With a planned configuration for 38,000 spectators, SoFi Stadium will be the largest swimming venue in Olympic history. Equestrian will return to Santa Anita Park once again, as Arcadia had previously hosted the event in 1984, while softball and canoe slalom were moved to existing venues in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, instead of building new venues in Los Angeles County. The torch relay CEO Reynold Hoover informed LA28 plans a 50-state relay to "bind the nation with LA". A tentative start date is set for April 2028. Tickets Registration for the first ticket lottery opened in January 2026, with selected fans being able to purchase tickets starting in March. An estimated 14 million tickets will be available to purchase for the Games, more than that of 2024. 1 million tickets will start at $28, with a third being under $100. ==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 (pictured), surfing, and sport 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 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. 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. Modern pentathlon is expected to employ a new format which replaces show jumping with obstacle course racing. 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 • • • • • • • • • Baseball/softball • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • 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. • 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. On October 9, 2023, LAOCOG announced that they had officially submitted baseball/softball, cricket, flag football, lacrosse, and squash for consideration by the IOC. 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. ==Participating National Olympic Committees==

As of March 31, 2026 the following five Nations are qualified. In 2025, under the leadership of Kirsty Coventry, the International Olympic Committee (IOC) is signaling a shift towards inclusivity by considering the return of Russia and Belarus to the Olympic Games. Despite the conflict between Russia and Ukraine, Coventry has expressed openness to revisiting Russia's participation and Belarus' participation. This move aligns with the IOC's broader mission to make the Olympics inclusive for all nations. ==Calendar==

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 the 1968 Summer Olympics in Mexico City that athletics competitions will take place in the first week of the Games. 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. :All times and dates use Pacific Daylight Time (UTC-7). ==Marketing==

Branding On September 1, 2020, LAOCOG 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, including Billie Eilish, Lilly Singh, and Reese Witherspoon. Variants have also included designs referencing the 1984 Summer Olympics' "Stars in Motion" emblem, a version featuring the flags of France and the United States used during the Los Angeles handover presentation at the 2024 closing ceremony, and a "Black Mamba"-inspired design paying tribute to basketball player Kobe Bryant (a two-time Olympic gold medalist as member of the U.S. men's team). For the first time, variants of the emblem have also been created to promote official sponsors of the Games, such as Delta Air Lines, and broadcaster NBC. LAOCOG 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. Corporate sponsorship The LA2028 OCOG partnered with NBCUniversal—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 the United States Olympic & Paralympic Committee (USOPC), NBCU parent company Comcast will be billed as a "Founding Partner" of LA 2028. For the first time in Olympic and Paralympic history, venues will be permitted to carry naming rights during the Games, provided that their naming rights partner is a Worldwide Olympic Partner (WOP) or Founding Partner of LA28. The organising committee also plans to sell naming rights for the temporary venues. Executive director Paul Krekorian commented that the new policy is intended to "ensure the success of the Games while also protecting our taxpayers," while Wasserman expected the new naming rights arrangements to help build a new commercial model for the Olympics, citing the legacy of the 1984 Games' sponsorship model. ==Broadcasting rights==

In the United States, the Games will be broadcast by NBCUniversal and Versant properties, as part of a long-term contract with the IOC until 2036 after it was extended for a further four years in 2024, with parent company Comcast agreeing to provide Olympic Broadcasting Services (OBS) with support for in-venue distribution, as well as collaborating on digital advertising opportunities in the U.S. among others. In January 2026, Comcast and NBCUniversal spun off CNBC, USA Network, and other cable operations into a new company called Versant, with an agreement being made for those cable channels to continue airing Olympics coverage. Hollywood Park Studios is planned to be the site of the International Broadcast Centre for the Games. ==See also==