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IPC President awarded Honorary 9th Dan

  • Taekwondo

International Paralympic Committee (IPC) President Andrew Parsons was today awarded an honorary 9th dan Taekwondo black belt certificate by World Taekwondo President Chungwon Choue at the federation’s headquarters in Seoul. 

In January last year, the IPC also confirmed Para Taekwondo's place at Los Angeles 2028, marking the


NFL to host international 12 youth flag football teams at 2024 Pro Bowl games

  • News

12 flag football teams from around the world will compete in the NFL's largest-ever International Flag Football Championship in Orlando.

INSTAGRAM"After a truly historic year when flag football was confirmed for LA 2028, the 2024 Pro Bowl

expansion of the NFL International Flag Championships follows flag football's recent inclusion in the 2028

Olympic Games in Los Angeles - spearheaded by the International Federation of American Football (IFAF


Mexico withdraws 2036 bid, eyes Youth Olympics or Pan Am Games

  • Olympics

Mexico has withdrawn from the race to host the 2036 Olympic Games. The president of the Mexican Olympic Committee (COM), Maria José Alcalá, made the announcement on Tuesday following the presentation of new sponsors for the national team, which will take part in Paris 2024.

team that will take part in Paris 2024.CAMBIO DE PLANESMéxico 🇲🇽 baja su candidatura en busca de los

Juegos Olímpicos de Verano del 2036 y se perfila por buscar la sede de los Juegos Olímpicos de verano

Angeles in 2028 and Brisbane in 2032.Estoy muy contenta de compartirles que a partir de hoy @Grupo_bimbo

, una gran empresa mexicana, será patrocinador del @com_mexico, acompañando a las y los atletas en el

sueño olímpico no solo de @Paris2024 sino hasta Los Ángeles 2028. ⁰Muchas gracias por confiar y apoyar


French Taekwondo prepares the "Los Angeles 2028 generation"

  • Taekwondo

The Olympic year begins for the French Taekwondo Federation, which has four Olympic quotas for Paris 2024 as the host nation. The first major tournament will take place in a month's time, on 17 and 18 February.

 One of the aims of the National Championships is to prepare the "Los Angeles 2028 generation".


French and US weightlifting chiefs discuss Olympic preparations

  • Weightlifting

Michel Raynaud, President of the French Weightlifting Federation (FFHM), visited the United States for a meeting with Jenny Schumacher, Chair of the Board of USA Weightlifting. 

strengthening cooperation, particularly in the context of the forthcoming Olympic Games.The discussions in Los

Angeles focused on the organisation and technical aspects of weightlifting events, with a special emphasis

on the Paris 2024 and Los Angeles 2028 Olympic Games.

In 2023, weightlifting was confirmed on the programme of the Los Angeles 2028 Olympic Games following


Corona Cero becomes first Worldwide Olympic Partner to sponsor the Olympics

  • Paris 2024

For the first time in its 40-year sponsorship programme, the International Olympic Committee has signed up Anheuser-Busch InBev as a beer brand, Corona Cero, a non-alcoholic version of Corona beer.

be one of the sponsors of the Paris 2024 Olympic Games, the Milan-Cortina D'Ampezzo 2026 Games and Los

Angeles 2028 Olympic Games.

This was a year after the Los Angeles Olympics, which were radically changed following a decline in commercial


Excluding boxing from the Olympics is "unthinkable", says TBF president

  • Boxing

"The IOC wants to change, but not to exclude". The idea of defending the presence of boxing in the Olympic Games was underlined by Eyüp Gözgen, President of the Turkish Boxing Federation.

The Turkish leader made a plea for the sport's presence in the Olympics beyond the 2028 Games and sought

to put an end to speculation.At the moment, the presence of boxing is guaranteed until the 2028 edition

in Los Angeles.


Indian Olympic Association appoints Raghuram Iyer as CEO

  • Olympics

Iyer takes up the role after a thorough selection process by the IOA Nominating Committee, having previously served as Chief Executive Officer of teams in the Indian Premier League (IPL) and the Indian Super League (ISL).

pic.twitter.com/Zd0HPj2oXC— Team India (@WeAreTeamIndia) January 5, 2024Cricket will be an Olympic sport in Los

Angeles in 2028.

coordinate, first with the country's athletes competing in Paris in 2024, just six months away.Then, in Los

Angeles in 2028, with the prominence that Indian sport can have now that cricket has been added as an


Kelly Kretschman celebrates softball's return to the Olympics

  • Baseball and Softball

Former USA softball star Kelly Kretschman, who played in last year's WBSC U-15 Women's Softball World Cup last year, said the 2024 WBSC Women's Softball World Cup Finals will be "like a mini-Olympics" and expects the USA and Japan to be in the final.

With the announcement of softball's return to the Olympic programme at Los Angeles 2028, after being

 Kelly Kretschman dreams of Los Angeles 2028.

 "It's crazy to think that these girls could have the opportunity to play in the 2028 Olympics in

USA at the WBSC Women's Softball World Cup Finals in Italy later this year and at the LA28 Games in 2028


A successful year with the confirmation of WBSC in Los Angeles 2028

  • Baseball and Softball Section Pages

Confederation he presides over, thanks to the numerous events and the inclusion in the Olympic program for Los

Angeles 2028.

the highlight of the year was the confirmation of baseball and softball in the sports program for the Los

Angeles 2028 Olympic Games.

All that we have achieved aligns with the WBSC Strategic Plan 2022-2028, which focuses on the continuous

On the horizon, the Youth Olympic Games in Dakar 2026 (Senegal) and the Olympic Games in Los Angeles

2028 (United States of America) are anticipated.


Snoop Dogg joins NBCUniversal to cover Paris 2024 Olympics

  • Paris 2024

Snoop Dogg is joining NBCUniversal's coverage of the Paris 2024 Olympic Games this summer. The global megastar will be on hand in Paris to provide regular reports for the primetime Olympic show on NBC and Peacock starting on 26 July 2024.

The content was filmed in November at Universal Studios in Los Angeles as part of NBCUniversal's state-of-the-art

the Olympic Games until Brisbane 2032, which are scheduled for Paris (2024), Milan Cortina (2026), Los

Angeles (2028) and Brisbane (2032).


Paris 2024 is not the end of the road

  • Sports

The Paris 2024 Olympic Games will be followed by a number of major sporting events. These include the Davis Cup, the Paris Paralympics, the start of qualifying for the 2026 FIFA World Cup and the World Short Course Swimming Championships in Hungary.

 Los Angeles 2028 may seem far away on the horizon, but life will go on with many elite sporting


IBA to close 2023 with record number of competitions

  • Boxing

Two world championships, including a junior championship in Armenia, additional work to generate resources to finance the national federations and to professionalise the people who govern boxing were his bets. The year ended without a final decision on the withdrawal of recognition by the IOC.

It is also on the programme for Los Angeles 2028. Beyond that, we will have to wait and see.


Kathy Carter stepping down as CEO of Los Angeles 2028

  • Los Angeles 2028

Two years after receiving the position, Kathy Carter will become a senior advisor and the transfer is assumed to be a management reshuffle.

Kathy Carter, who had taken over as CEO of the Los Angeles 2024 Olympic Games in 2021, has stepped down

be expanded in order to be able to finance all the objectives.Kathy Carter takes on new role within Los

Angeles 2028 structure.

is crucial to the security of the organisation and that is one of the pillars of the approach that Los

Angeles 2028 wants to have in place.


IBA celebrates its Unity Day: 3 years of Umar Kremlev's presidency

  • Boxing

On December 12, 2020, Umar Kremlev emerged victorious in the AIBA presidential elections, securing 57.33% of the votes. In the subsequent year, as doubts loomed over AIBA's future, the organization underwent a transformative phase. 

Inclusion of boxing into the programme of the Los Angeles Games 2028 is questionable.