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The 2028 Summer Olympics will introduce the sport of flag football for the first time. Two events, one for men and one for women, will be held. Flag football, a non-contact variant of American football in which players remove flags attached to the ball carrier instead of tackling them, was previously contested at the 2022 World Games and will be featured at the 2025 World Games.
As a result, flag football was officially added to the LA 2028 program, alongside baseball/softball, cricket, lacrosse sixes and squash as additional sports in Los Angeles. The 2028 Olympics will ...
Megan Rapinoe weighs in on the possibility Colin Kaepernick could represent Team USA in flag football at the 2028 Olympics in Los Angeles.
The Los Angeles 2028 Olympic and Paralympic organizing committee (LA28) has proposed five new sports for inclusion in the 2028 Games: flag football, baseball/softball, cricket, lacrosse and squash.
The first known recorded history of flag football can be traced to Fort Meade, Maryland, USA, which is now generally accepted as the sport's birthplace. The first national flag football organization, the National Touch Football League, was formed in the 1960s in St. Louis, Missouri. Since 1971, the league has had a national championship game. [4]
The NFL's ongoing push for worldwide exposure got another boost Monday when organizers for the 2028 Los Angeles Olympics delivered a proposal to put flag football on the program when the Summer ...
The Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum and the Rose Bowl will host athletics and football (soccer), respectively. [3] Both will become the first stadiums to have ever hosted three different Olympiads. [4] [5] BMO Stadium, which opened in 2018 as the home of Major League Soccer's Los Angeles FC, will host football and several events in athletics.
Patrick Mahomes says he is up for playing flag football for the United States at the 2028 Summer Olympics. The International Olympic Committee added flag football to the program for the Los ...