{"id":282418,"date":"2026-04-23T18:44:07","date_gmt":"2026-04-23T18:44:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/282418\/"},"modified":"2026-04-23T18:44:07","modified_gmt":"2026-04-23T18:44:07","slug":"la28-is-dropping-more-olympics-tickets-heres-how-to-register-and-some-ticket-buying-tips-if-youre-chosen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/282418\/","title":{"rendered":"LA28 is dropping more Olympics tickets. Here\u2019s how to register\u2014and some ticket-buying tips if you\u2019re chosen."},"content":{"rendered":"

Ready for round two? After a locals presale<\/a> and initial ticket drop\u2014during which more than\u00a0four million tickets were sold for anywhere from $28 into the thousands\u2014LA28 has announced the details for the next ticket drop for the 2028 Olympics in Los Angeles.<\/p>\n

Registration is open now<\/a> for Drop 2, which will give lottery-selected Olympic attendee hopefuls another shot in August at trying to land tickets. We\u2019ll dive into all of the details below, but the short version: Drop\u00a02 will\u00a0include new ticket inventory for all sports<\/a> at a mix of price points, and if you\u2019ve already bought (or tried to buy) tickets during the first drop, you\u2019re still eligible\u2014and, in fact, already automatically registered\u2014for this second one as long as you didn\u2019t hit your 12-ticket maximum.<\/p>\n

When can I register for Drop 2? And when can I actually buy tickets?<\/p>\n

Registration is open now through July 22, and tickets will go on sale sometime in August.\u00a0Registration essentially puts your name into the pool for a random selection process; if you\u2019re chosen, you\u2019ll receive an email in August with the date, time and duration of your assigned time slot.<\/p>\n

Who\u2019s eligible for Drop 2?<\/p>\n

Basically anybody who didn\u2019t max out their 12-ticket allotment in the first drop.\u00a0There\u2019s no sort of locals-only\u00a0window this time around. If you haven\u2019t registered before for tickets for the 2028 Olympics, you can do so on LA28\u2019s site<\/a>.<\/p>\n

If you\u00a0already registered for LA28 tickets during the locals presale and Drop 1 and either weren\u2019t chosen at all or purchased fewer than 12 tickets, you\u2019ll automatically be entered for this ticket draw, as well as all future ones. Of course, you\u2019re still welcome to head to the ticketing page just to double-check that all of your details are correct.<\/p>\n

As a refresher, each account is limited to 12 tickets (the Opening and Closing Ceremony specifically have a four-ticket-per-account limit). In addition, there\u2019s a\u00a0separate 12-ticket maximum for soccer matches<\/a> that doesn\u2019t count towards your main allotment.<\/p>\n

Will there be any new ticket inventory available?<\/p>\n

Yes, LA28 says that this second drop includes \u201crefreshed inventory across all Olympic sports.\u201d\u00a0One of the most disappointing aspects of the locals presale and Drop 1 was that there seemed to be no new tickets\u00a0added\u00a0during the on-sale window;\u00a0if you had an early day and time you could scramble for seats to some of the highest-demand events, but\u00a0those were not restocked as folks with later slots throughout the two-and-a-half-week sale were left to vie for high-priced leftovers. (And to confirm your suspicions, LA28\u00a0shared that artistic gymnastics did indeed have the quickest sell through in Drop 1.)<\/p>\n

But will there still be any cheap tickets left?<\/p>\n

Most likely yes, but expect them to go\u00a0very quickly. LA28 notes that the Drop 2 restock will include tickets at \u201ca range of price points,\u201d though it doesn\u2019t detail how exactly that inventory will be distributed. The organization also shared that L.A. and Oklahoma City locals snagged almost all of the cheap seats: 95% of all of the sub-$100 tickets were sold during the locals presale, including half a million $28 tickets. (LA28 initially estimated that over a million $28 tickets would be available for the Olympics, so about half of those are still in play for future drops.)<\/p>\n

What other tips do you have for buying tickets?<\/p>\n

Based on our experiences during the locals presale, we put together an in-depth guide on how to navigate the LA28 ticketing process<\/a>. In short, you\u2019ll want to go into the sale with a wish list of events (and their corresponding session codes) and prepare yourself for high prices\u00a0with an \u201cadd to cart first, ask questions later\u201d approach (and hope for a little bit of luck as seats expire from other people\u2019s carts).<\/p>\n

We also now have a bit more data from Drop 1 that might better inform your Drop 2 game plan. Women\u2019s sessions outsold men\u2019s 93% to 88%. Nearly all available soccer inventory sold out, as did the Summer\u00a0Games\u2019 newest sports: flag football, lacrosse, softball and squash. And the Valley Zone (home of 3×3 basketball, BMX freestyle and racing, skateboarding and modern pentathlon) led sell through for its combined sports.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Ready for round two? After a locals presale and initial ticket drop\u2014during which more than\u00a0four million tickets were…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":282419,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[121347,48,52,51,47,50,49,121348,121346],"class_list":{"0":"post-282418","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-los-angeles","8":"tag-categories-sports-and-fitness","9":"tag-la","10":"tag-la-headlines","11":"tag-la-news","12":"tag-los-angeles","13":"tag-los-angeles-headlines","14":"tag-los-angeles-news","15":"tag-news-sports-fitness","16":"tag-sports-and-fitness"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/282418","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=282418"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/282418\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/282419"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=282418"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=282418"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=282418"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}