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First ever UK NFL Flag league for girls launched with help of New York Jets and Chicago Bears

  • American Football

A pioneering girls flag football league in London was launched on International Women's Day with the assistance of two ambassadors from International Federation of American Football (IFAF) and National Football League (NFL) Global Flag Football.

the importance of flag football, which is currently bidding for inclusion on the Olympic programme at Los

Angeles 2028.


World Rowing officials tour Los Angeles 2028 venue and push for beach sprint inclusion

  • Los Angeles 2028

Senior officials from World Rowing toured the proposed venue for the rowing competition at the 2028 Olympics

during a visit to Los Angeles.

Jean-Christophe Rolland led a delegation to Southern California where they held a series of meetings with the Los

Angeles 2028 Organising Committee.Rowing at Los Angeles 2028 had been due to take place at Lake Perris

Olympics in Los Angeles ©Getty ImagesAmong the topics discussed included the collaboration between LA

It was a very fruitful visit, which will contribute to strengthen our partnership with Los Angeles 2028

Angeles, including, we hope, through the inclusion of an exciting new form of rowing that will fully


Latvia form working group to consider joining Sweden on 2030 Winter Olympics bid

  • 2030 Olympics

Latvia has formed a research working group to examine the possibility of working with Sweden on a bid for the 2030 Winter Olympics and Paralympics.

stage the Games in 2030 or 2034, but its preference is for the latter edition to avoid a clash with Los

Angeles 2028 sponsorships.Vancouver in Canada's proposal has been hampered by a lack of support from


Los Angeles middle school girls receive sportswear from LA28 during Girls Empowerment Day

  • Los Angeles 2028

The Los Angeles 2028 (LA28) Olympic and Paralympic Games Organising Committee celebrated International

life, from creating community and teaching values to showing up every day and building confidence.The Los

Angeles 2028 Olympics will be the third time the city has hosted the Games ©Getty Images"These young

Malloy and Nina Cutro-Kelly, track and field Olympian Jason Richardson and fencer Kamilla Vaksman.Los Angeles


Bullet train from Las Vegas to Los Angeles set to be open before 2028 Olympics

  • Los Angeles 2028

Work on a high-speed rail network connecting Las Vegas to Los Angeles is set to begin later this year

with the hope of it being completed in time for the 2028 Olympics and Paralympics.

the high-speed rail service is set to start later in the year and be open in 2027 - one year before Los

Angeles is due to stage the Olympic and Paralympic Games.Once built, the network will connect 218 miles

between Las Vegas and Los Angeles with trains expected to reach a top speed of 200 miles per hour.Brightline


Flag football continental championship to give Olympic boost before Los Angeles 2028

  • Los Angeles 2028

The International Federation of American Football (IFAF) have claimed that the launch of the 2023 IFAF Americas Continental Flag Football Championship in Charlotte, North Carolina, will be part of the "biggest ever cycle of global flag football competition".

Committee (IOC) Session in Mumbai, when a final decision on the inclusion of additional sports for the Los

Angeles 2028 Olympics is expected.It is one of three continental championships scheduled to take place


USOPC receives record $10 million mental health donation from Rieschel Family Foundation

  • PASO

The United States Olympic and Paralympic Committee (USOPC), in partnership with its Foundation, has received a record $10 million (£8.4 million/€9.4 million) from the Rieschel Family Foundation.

for the mental health operation which is on a three-phase expansion, scheduled to culminate with the Los

Angeles 2028 Olympic and Paralympic Games.In the first phase, Jessica Bartley, the USOPC’s senior director

for the mental health operation which is on a three-phase expansion, scheduled to culminate with the Los

Angeles 2028 ©Getty ImagesThe couple also made a $1.5 million (£1.25 million/€1.4 million) donation


McKinnor appointed chair of Los Angeles 2028 Select Committee

  • Los Angeles 2028

Inglewood Assembly member Tina McKinnor has been appointed chair of the Los Angeles 2028 Olympic and

Thank you Speaker Anthony Rendon for naming me chair of the Select Committee on the 2028 Olympic and

Angeles 2028 venues the Kia Forum, pictured, and SoFi Stadium ©Getty Images"On your mark, get set, go

Dome is expected to be completed in 2024 but is not due to stage any competitions at Los Angeles 2028

.Instead, it will serve as the future home of National Basketball Association team the Los Angeles Clippers.The

Los Angeles 2028 Olympics are set to run from July 14 to 30 before the Paralympics take place from August


October dates announced for IOC Session in Mumbai

  • Olympics

This year's delayed 140th International Olympic Committee (IOC) Session in the Indian city of Mumbai is due to take place from October 15 to 17, it has been announced today.

at the Session in Mumbai were hampered by issues with bidding cities ©Getty ImagesThe programme for Los

Angeles 2028 is expected to be finalised at the Session in Mumbai, with three long-standing sports in

taken the deeply divisive decision to replace riding with the obstacle discipline from its sport.Los Angeles

2028 is also expected to propose additional sports from a shortlist of nine for inclusion this year.An


Patrick Burke: Boycotts make boxing breakaway an obvious solution to sport's Olympic woes

  • Inside the Blogs

It is quite something for the International Boxing Association (IBA) to be going into its upcoming Women's Boxing World Championships in New Delhi in a less unified state than how it exited last year's one in Istanbul.

IBA.This time last year there was still hope that the IBA could salvage boxing's Olympic status from Los

Angeles 2028.

to stage some form of boycott.The IBA's hopes of rescuing boxing's place at the Olympic Games from Los

Angeles 2028 by itself appear remote ©Getty ImagesAustralia in contrast is set to send a team to New

2028 without boxing would surely be something organisers in the US and the IOC want to avoid.There is


Bach claims IOC stance on trans athletes "very clear" during tour of Caribbean

  • Olympics

International Olympic Committee (IOC) President Thomas Bach reiterated his organisation’s stance on transgender athletes in sport during his tour of the Caribbean.

We are preparing for the Paris 2024 Olympic Games but in Cuba they already have the vision for Los Angeles

2028 and that is an example of modern sport," said Bach in a report by web portal Jit.Bach also presented


Kremlev defends allowing Russian and Belarusian boxers to compete without sanctions

  • Boxing

International Boxing Association (IBA) President Umar Kremlev has defended the embattled governing body's decision to allow Russian and Belarusian athletes to compete at its events without sanctions.

Zealand President Steve Hartley, who have been accused of "inciting a boycott".Boxing's place at the Los

Angeles 2028 Olympic Games remains at risk, but Umar Kremlev warned the IOC it would lose out "if the

Boxing remains off the initial programme for the Los Angeles 2028 Olympics, and the IOC warned last year


Common Cause Alliance member Australia names nine-strong team for IBA Women's World Championships

  • Boxing

Australia has named a team of nine athletes set to compete at the International Boxing Association (IBA) Women's Boxing World Championships in India's capital New Delhi, despite being a member of the Common Cause Alliance. 

International Olympic Committee have deteriorated, and boxing remains off the initial programme for the Los

Angeles 2028 Olympics.The IBA has pledged to provide financial assistance for athletes from countries


New Zealand reveal plans for Common Cause Alliance alternative to IBA Men's World Championships

  • Boxing

Boxing New Zealand President Steve Hartley has revealed that a competition is due to be staged in The Netherlands later this year as an alternative to the International Boxing Association (IBA) Men's Boxing World Championships in Tashkent.

Boris van der Vorst which seeks to prioritise the preservation of boxing's place at the Olympics from Los

Angeles 2028.It has allowed a New Zealand team to attend the IBA Women's Boxing World Championships

Presidential election in Yerevan in September.Boxing had already been left off the initial programme for Los

Angeles 2028, and Kremlev's re-election and the renewal of the IBA's ties with Russian majority-state