{"id":262128,"date":"2026-05-07T15:22:08","date_gmt":"2026-05-07T15:22:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/262128\/"},"modified":"2026-05-07T15:22:08","modified_gmt":"2026-05-07T15:22:08","slug":"orlando-among-cities-to-host-2028-olympic-q-series","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/262128\/","title":{"rendered":"Orlando among cities to host 2028 Olympic Q-Series"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The 2028 Olympic Q-Series, a four-stop set of LA28 qualifying competitions including six sports, will take place in Tokyo (May 4-7, 2028), Shanghai (May 11-14), Montreal (Jun 1-4) and Orlando (June 8-11).<\/p>\n<p>The last stop in Orlando will take place one month before the start of the LA28 Games.<\/p>\n<p>The six sports to be contested across the sites are 3&#215;3 basketball, beach volleyball, BMX freestyle, climbing, flag football and skateboarding.<\/p>\n<p>The specific sport program for each stop will be announced at a later date.<\/p>\n<p>In 2024, the Olympic qualifying series debuted with two stops \u2014 in Shanghai and Budapest \u2014 and four sports \u2014 BMX freestyle, breaking, skateboarding, and sport climbing.<\/p>\n<p>Orlando hosted the 2024 U.S. Olympic Marathon Trials, plus preliminary soccer matches for the 1996 Atlanta Olympics.<\/p>\n<p>    <a class=\"Link\" aria-label=\"LA28 Olympics schedule: daily competition times for all events\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcsports.com\/olympics\/news\/2028-olympic-schedule-la28-los-angeles\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><\/p>\n<p>    <img decoding=\"async\" class=\"Image\" alt=\"nbc_golf_olympics_251211.jpg\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/1778167328_570_.jpeg\" loading=\"lazy\"\/><\/p>\n<p><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The LA28 Games will be the largest Olympics ever with 351 medal events.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The 2028 Olympic Q-Series, a four-stop set of LA28 qualifying competitions including six sports, will take place in&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":262129,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[139,141,140],"class_list":["post-262128","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-orlando","tag-orlando","tag-orlando-headlines","tag-orlando-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/262128","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=262128"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/262128\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/262129"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=262128"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=262128"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=262128"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}