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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.
The 2028 Los Angeles Games — the first Olympics hosted by the U.S. since 2002 in Salt Lake City and first Summer Games since 1996 (Atlanta) — will feature flag football in its Olympic debut.
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 IFAF and the National Football League later backed a proposal to include flag football, a non-contact variation of the game, as an one-off event at the 2028 Summer Olympics in Los Angeles. [18] Flag football became a viable alternative for its limited contact, low costs, and due to it being playable by both men and women.
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.
They usually post up in the Olympic Village when they touch down in the host country. For the 2024 Summer Olympics, more than 14,250 athletes (!) will stay at the Village, which spans three cities ...
The specific rules of flag football vary widely by the league, though all share in common their replication of the rules of traditional American football with tackling replaced by flag-pulling. Flag football will be an Olympic sport at the 2028 Summer Olympics. Sprint football (or lightweight football) is a variant of American football with ...
In 2008, the women competed in the IFAF Flag Football World Championship where they finished fourth. They then won silver in 2010, [2] 2012, [3] and 2014. [4] They lost to Canada twice [3] and Mexico once. In the 2018 finals they defeated Panama 27–12 to win gold. [5] Then the team defeated Mexico, winning the 2021 IFAF Women's Flag Football ...