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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.
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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 is helping wave the flag for flag football to become part of the Olympics. The target is the 2028 Summer Games in Los Angeles. Flag football is one of the faster growing options for the ...
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.
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 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.
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