2028 Olympics Opening and Closing Ceremony places revealed – NBC Los Angeles

Historic Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum and SoFi Stadium in Inglewood will host the Opening and Closing Ceremony for the 2028 Olympics, it was introduced Thursday.

LA28, the Los Angeles Olympics organizing committee, made the announcement Thursday morning.

The Opening Ceremony on July 14, 2028, can be shared by each the LA Memorial Coliseum in Exposition Park and SoFi Stadium in Inglewood. The Closing Ceremony is ready for July 30, 2028, on the LA Memorial Coliseum, which is able to turn out to be the primary venue in historical past to host occasions for 3 Olympics.

LA Memorial Coliseum beforehand supplied the stage for Olympics occasion in 1932 and 1984.

“The venues chosen for the 2028 Opening and Closing Ceremonies will spotlight Los Angeles’s wealthy sporting historical past and cutting-edge future, showcasing the perfect that LA has to supply on the world stage,” stated LA28 Chairperson and President Casey Wasserman. “These two extraordinary venues will create an unforgettable expertise, welcoming followers from throughout the globe to an Olympic and Paralympic Video games like by no means earlier than and concluding what is going to go down as probably the most unimaginable Video games in historical past.”

As for competitors venues, the plan for the 2028 Olympics turned clearer final month when places for greater than a dozen sports activities, together with seashore volleyball, browsing and baseball, had been revealed. LA28 offered its up to date listing of 2028 Olympics venues to the Worldwide Olympic Committee, which signed off final month on the up to date plan.

Venues for extra sports activities had been introduced earlier, together with LA Memorial Coliseum, the Sepulveda Basin Recreation Space, BMO Stadium in Exposition Park, the Los Angeles Conference Middle and Crypto.com Enviornment in downtown LA, the sports activities advanced in Carson, Rose Bowl in Pasadena and a number of other websites exterior the town of Los Angeles, together with canoe slalom and softball, that are set for Oklahoma Metropolis.

The medal occasions program for 2028 options six new combined gender group occasions in what the LA28 organizing committee known as a “monumental step ahead.” The program authorized for 2028 has 22 extra medal occasions than Paris 2024 at 351.

Combined group occasions added for 2028 embrace inventive gymnastics, athletics (4×100 combined gender relay), golf, archery (compound bow), coastal rowing seashore dash and desk tennis. The competitors format for the brand new inventive gymnastic combined group occasion can be finalized and introduced at a later date.

The medal competitors consists of expansions to the sphere of ladies’s soccer and water polo occasion, a brand new girls’s boxing weight class, an expanded 3×3 basketball subject, and extra medal occasions in swimming and sport climbing.

Flag soccer will make its Olympic debut in 2028 and lacrosse will return to the lineup of medal sports activities for the primary time in additional than a century. Baseball and softball will make their Olympic comeback, and cricket additionally can be a part of the lineup.

See the complete listing of medal occasions right here.