What to KnowThe Olympics will return to Los Angeles for an historic third time in 2028.The LA 2028 Olympics Opening Ceremony is July 14, 2028 with competition through July 30, 2028. The LA28 Paralympic Games will kick off Aug. 15, 2028 and close Aug. 27, 2028. Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum in Exposition Park and SoFi Stadium in Inglewood will host the Opening and Closing Ceremony in a dual-venue celebration.

The first teams have punched their tickets to the 2028 Olympics in Los Angeles.

The Dominican Republic, Venezuela and the United States will be part of the LA28 Baseball Tournament at storied Dodger Stadium. The 2026 World Baseball Classic served as the initial qualifying event for baseball and the first for any of the 2028 Olympics sports.

The Dominican Republic and Venezuela qualified as the two highest ranking teams from the Americas. Team USA was guaranteed a spot as the host country.

The U.S. beat the Dominican Republic Monday and will now face Venezuela, which beat Italy, in the World Baseball Classic final.

Baseball will be back in the Olympics lineup for the first time since Tokyo 2020. The six-team tournament is scheduled for July 13-19, 2028.

The remaining three spots will be determined after this month’s World Baseball Classic through two international tournaments in 2027 and 2028.

Rosters will be finalized closer to 2028.

Registration for the first Olympics Ticket Draw is open through Wednesday ahead of tickets for all sports going on sale in early April. So far, more than 5 million fans from 197 countries and territories have registered since ticket draw registration opened in January. according to LA28.

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When are the 2028 Los Angeles Olympics?

The Olympics will return to Los Angeles for an historic third time in 2028.

The LA 2028 Olympics Opening Ceremony is July 14, 2028 with competition through July 30, 2028. The LA28 Paralympic Games will kick off Aug. 15, 2028 and close Aug. 27, 2028. 

The organizing committee has released a first look at the competition schedule. Field hockey, basketball, rugby sevens, water polo, handball and cricket will be the first sports to kick off the competition on July 12, two days before the Opening Ceremony.

The first full date of competition, designated Day 1, is July 15. The order of events includes a twist for 2028 with track and field and swimming swapping their typical schedules. Track and field will compete at Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum in the first week of the Olympics schedule with swimming moving to the second week at SoFi Stadium.

The marathons will still be on the final weekend.

The first medal will be awarded in triathlon on Day 1 in Venice Beach. July 29, or Day 15, will be the busiest day on the podium with 16 gold and bronze events in team sports and 19 individual medal events.

Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum in Exposition Park and SoFi Stadium in Inglewood will host the opening ceremony in a duel-venue celebration. The Paralympic opening ceremony will be at SoFi Stadium with the closing ceremony at the Coliseum.

New for the 2028 Olympics

The program approved for 2028 has 22 more medal events than Paris 2024 at 351.

Mixed team events added for 2028 include artistic gymnastics, athletics (4×100 mixed gender relay), golf, archery (compound bow), coastal rowing beach sprint and table tennis. The competition format for the new artistic gymnastic mixed team event will be finalized and announced at a later date.

The medal competition includes expansions to the field of women’s soccer and water polo event, a new women’s boxing weight class, an expanded 3×3 basketball field, and more medal events in swimming and sport climbing.

Flag football will make its Olympic debut in 2028 and lacrosse will return to the lineup of medal sports for the first time in more than a century. Baseball and softball will make their Olympic comeback, and cricket also will be part of the lineup.

See the full list of medal events here.