David Siegel, a longstanding executive of the Los Angeles Dodgers baseball team, has been named as the

encourages economic and community development through the promotion of spectator sports programmes in the Los

Angeles and Orange County area.Formed in 1939, the SCCOG is a non-profit organisation whose mission

is to promote the Olympic Movement in Southern California.It has partnered with the City of Los Angeles

on the successful bid for the 2028 Summer Olympic and Paralympic Games.Siegel has spent his entire 22

Angeles Dodgers organisation to become President of the LA Sports Council and the Southern California

Thomas Bach has given his strongest hint yet the Opening Ceremony of the 2024 Olympic Games could be held in the centre of the city - claiming it would be a "dream". 

Or maybe later in Los Angeles in 2028."

Women's cricket could feature at the 2022 Commonwealth Games in Birmingham after the International Cricket Council (ICC) confirmed it had submitted a bid for the Twenty20 version of the sport to be included at the event.

The ICC is also pursuing inclusion at the Olympic Games, with Los Angeles 2028 the earliest possible

USA Taekwondo has announced that it will launch an Athlete Academy in 2019 to help prepare athletes for the Olympic Games.

The organisation is aiming "to dominate" by 2028 when the country will host a home Summer Olympics in

Los Angeles.It is hoped the most promising athletes in the country will be identified by the Academy.They

to the country's programme at least until Paris 2024.There is an option to extend this further until 2028

situation," said high performance director May Spence.The United States hopes to "dominate" at its home Los

Angeles 2028 Games"The Academy, which is totally focused on development athletes and headed by national

The Reno-Tahoe Winter Games Coalition have announced that they will not be part of a United States bid for the 2030 Winter Olympic and Paralympic Games.

," a statement from the Reno-Tahoe Winter Games Coalition read.The country is due to be hosting the 2028

Summer Olympic and Paralympic Games in Los Angeles as well as co-hosting the FIFA World Cup in 2026

Today marks 100 years since "the war to end all wars" came to an end. The guns fell silent at the 11th hour of the 11th day in the 11th month in 1918.

In 1924, the Prince of Wales was among those who took part in the ceremony.In Los Angeles, they

In 1932, the Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum staged the Olympic Games and would do so again in 1984.

It will also play a central role when the Games return to the City of Angels in 2028.

World Karate Federation (WKF) President Antonio Espinós has admitted the sport will struggle to gain a place on the Paralympic Games programme until considerable improvements are made to their classification system.

however, that he was confident Para-karate would one day feature at the Paralympics and has targeted Los

Angeles 2028 for the sport's debut at the Games.Para-karate was overlooked for inclusion at Paris 2024

became a member of the IPC in 2015, allowing the WKF to pursue inclusion at Paris 2024.The target of Los

Angeles 2028 will only be feasible if karate remains an Olympic sport after Tokyo 2020, where it will

Officials from the United States Olympic Committee (USOC) have planned a visit to Salt Lake City on Wednesday (November 14) to tour potential venues that could form a future American bid for the Winter Olympic Games.

A 2026 Games in the US would also come two years before Los Angeles stages the 2028 Summer edition.The

International Olympic Committee (IOC) President Thomas Bach expressed his view that delegates present at the International Federations (IF) Forum here could feel a void left by Patrick Baumann following his sudden death last month.

the World Anti-Doping Agency Executive Committee and was IOC Coordination Commission chair for the Los

Angeles 2028 Summer Olympic Games.In addition, he was a Council member of ASOIF.A memorial service was

Los Angeles has been announced as the host of the first two editions of the World Urban Games in 2019

a "thorough process".Los Angeles' hosting of the second edition will be conditional on the success of

next year's event.The events come as the city prepares to host the 2028 Summer Olympic Games.The Games

“In awarding the first three editions of the World Urban Games to Los Angeles and with the commitment

 "Los Angeles will give it the opportunity to become established, flourish and become a key part

 "Now we are fully focused on working with the city of Los Angeles, the Organising Committee and

Huntington Beach has said the city should be a "very serious contender" to host Olympic surfing in 2028

, if the sport is still on the programme at the Los Angeles Games.

Miller, in orange, says Huntington Beach should be a serious contender to host if surfing is in the Los

Angeles 2028 Olympics ©Getty ImagesSurfing has been added to the programme for the Tokyo Olympics 

, or indeed in 2024 when the Olympics heads to Paris.Miller said that if the sport does feature in Los

Angeles his city should be involved as it is "immersed" in the sport."

We would humbly ask the LA 2028 Organising Committee and other decision makers to look at us as a very

The International Boxing Association (AIBA) face the prospect of being suspended by the International Olympic Committee (IOC) following its decision to overwhelmingly elect Gafur Rakhimov as its permanent President at its Congress here today.

Boxing will definitely be on the Tokyo Olympic Games programme, and also in Paris [2024] and Los Angeles

[2028], just like any future Olympic Games," he told them."

European Weightlifting Federation (EWF) President Antonio Urso has defended the continental governing body’s decision to award the 2020 European Weightlifting Championships to Russia, claiming the National Federation deserves a chance to show that "something is changing" following the country’s doping scandal.

it is necessary to think of what is possible to do after Tokyo [2020], after Paris [2024] and after Los

Angeles [2028]."

In the current messy and vituperative debate on the quality of governance, and therefore decision-making, at the World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA), one thing I think is clear: the athletes’ case for a bigger say would be far harder to resist if they offered to pay their way.

ReformWADA— Michael Phelps (@MichaelPhelps) October 31, 2018Don’t cry for TB, ArgentinaAnd we thought Los

Angeles had left it late before properly getting into the last Olympic race.Wednesday (October 31) brought

spite of the commercial headaches such a move would presage, with both the 2026 FIFA World Cup and the 2028

Officials from across the sporting world and beyond attended a memorial service in Lausanne today to pay tribute to Patrick Baumann following the well-respected administrator's sudden death earlier this month.

sat on the World Anti-Doping Agency Executive Committee and was Coordination Commission chair for the Los

Angeles 2028 Summer Olympic Games.In addition, he was a Council member of the Association of Summer