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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.
In just 1,432 days, the L.A. Olympics will begin with an opening ceremony on July 14, 2028, and come to a close on July 30, 2028 Getty Images/Getty Images North America The Olympic flag
The following 12 pages use this file: 2022 World Games; 2025 World Games; 2028 Summer Olympics; Flag football at the Summer Olympics; Global Association of International Sports Federations
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 ...
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 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 ...
Flag football will be a 5-on-5 event played on a 70x30-yard field with no offensive or defensive linemen. The U.S. men's team won gold at the 2022 World Games in Birmingham, Alabama, while the ...
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.