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The flag football competition at the 2022 World Games took place in July 2022, [1] in Birmingham, Alabama in the United States. [2]Originally scheduled to take place in July 2021, the Games were rescheduled for July 2022 as a result of the 2020 Summer Olympics postponement due to the COVID-19 pandemic. [3]
The IFAF Flag Football World Championship is held every two years in different countries. Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the 2020 championships in Denmark were cancelled. The championship was rescheduled for 2021 in Jerusalem from December 6 to 8, with a record 42 teams featured, double that competing at the 2018 event in Panama . [ 2 ]
Team USA has won the won the IFAF Flag Football World Championship six times, most recently in 2024; which are the most championships won by a country for in the tournaments history. In 2022, Team USA won a gold medal at the World Games.
Then the team defeated Mexico, winning the 2021 IFAF Women's Flag Football World Championship. At the 2023 Americas Championship both the women's and men's teams defeated Mexico to win gold. [6] During the 2022 World Games, the team again went to the finals with Mexico. [7] This time they won silver with a score of 39–6.
Mexican Diana Flores, world champion flag football quarterback and NFL ambassador, points out the existing pay gap in sports and is featured in PBS's "Groundbreakers."
Team USA's men's team has won five of the last six world championships; the U.S. women's team is also highly successful, and has won the past two world championships in 2018 and 2022.
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Some scoffed when U.S. flag football quarterback Darrell Doucette said he's 'better than Patrick Mahomes.' He has 10 touchdowns in two games at the world championships.