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14-07-2025
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LA 2028 Olympics daily competition schedule released
Los Angeles 2028 Olympics organizers announced the daily competition schedule for the Games that will have a record 351 medal events. Action starts on Wednesday, July 12, 2028 -- two days before the Opening Ceremony, as usual -- with preliminary competition in basketball, cricket, field hockey, handball, rugby sevens, soccer and water polo. Advertisement It will mark the most sports to have competition before the day of the Opening Ceremony since the 1920 Antwerp Games, according to the OlyMADMen. At the 2024 Paris Olympics, preliminary competition in archery, handball, rugby sevens and soccer was held before the Opening Ceremony. LA 2028 will mark the first time that basketball games will be held on a day before the Opening Ceremony date since the 1952 Helsinki Games, according to the OlyMADMen. Further schedule details by event are expected to be announced later in 2025. On July 14, the day of the Opening Ceremony (8 p.m. ET/5 p.m. PT), one sport will have competition. Canoe slalom will be held at the Oklahoma City Whitewater Center. Softball will also be held in Oklahoma City in the second week of the Games — at Devon Park, the annual host of the NCAA Women's College World Series. 2028 Los Angeles Olympics Competition On July 15, the first medals of the Games will be awarded in triathlon, which will be held along Venice Beach. Advertisement As previously announced, track and field and swimming will switch places in the Olympic schedule — track and field in the first week and swimming in the second week. The switch will aid SoFi Stadium's transition from co-hosting the Opening Ceremony on July 14 to becoming the first NFL stadium to host Olympic swimming starting July 22. The marathons will still be held on the last weekend of the Games, keeping with tradition. Flag football, which makes its Olympic debut, will be in the first week from July 15-22. If NFL players take part, having that competition early could be helpful given NFL preseason training camps typically open in mid-to-late July with preseason games ramping up in early August. Baseball, which returns to the Games, will also be in the first week from July 15-20 at Dodger Stadium (which hosted baseball as a demonstration sport at the 1984 LA Games). Though Major League Baseball has not made decision on whether to allow active big leaguers to participate in the Olympics for the first time, note that the MLB All-Star breaks the past five seasons have been: July 12-14, 18-20, 10-13, 15-18 and 14-17. Olympics LA 2028 LA 2028 Olympics add new events in swimming, gymnastics, track; more female spots for first time There will be more women's quota places than men's quota places at the Olympics for the first time.
NBC Sports
14-07-2025
- Sport
- NBC Sports
LA 2028 Olympics daily competition schedule released
Los Angeles 2028 Olympics organizers announced the daily competition schedule for the Games that will have a record 351 medal events. Action starts on Wednesday, July 12, 2028 -- two days before the Opening Ceremony, as usual -- with preliminary competition in basketball, cricket, field hockey, handball, rugby sevens, soccer and water polo. It will mark the most sports to have competition before the day of the Opening Ceremony since the 1920 Antwerp Games, according to the OlyMADMen. At the 2024 Paris Olympics, preliminary competition in archery, handball, rugby sevens and soccer was held before the Opening Ceremony. LA 2028 will mark the first time that basketball games will be held on a day before the Opening Ceremony date since the 1952 Helsinki Games, according to the OlyMADMen. Further schedule details by event are expected to be announced later in 2025. On July 14, the day of the Opening Ceremony (8 p.m. ET/5 p.m. PT), one sport will have competition. Canoe slalom will be held at the Oklahoma City Whitewater Center. Softball will also be held in Oklahoma City in the second week of the Games — at Devon Park, the annual host of the NCAA Women's College World Series. LA 2028 On July 15, the first medals of the Games will be awarded in triathlon, which will be held along Venice Beach. As previously announced, track and field and swimming will switch places in the Olympic schedule — track and field in the first week and swimming in the second week. The switch will aid SoFi Stadium's transition from co-hosting the Opening Ceremony on July 14 to becoming the first NFL stadium to host Olympic swimming starting July 22. The marathons will still be held on the last weekend of the Games, keeping with tradition. Flag football, which makes its Olympic debut, will be in the first week from July 15-22. If NFL players take part, having that competition early could be helpful given NFL preseason training camps typically open in mid-to-late July with preseason games ramping up in early August. Baseball, which returns to the Games, will also be in the first week from July 15-20 at Dodger Stadium (which hosted baseball as a demonstration sport at the 1984 LA Games). Though Major League Baseball has not made decision on whether to allow active big leaguers to participate in the Olympics for the first time, note that the MLB All-Star breaks the past five seasons have been: July 12-14, 18-20, 10-13, 15-18 and 14-17. Nick Zaccardi,
NBC Sports
14-07-2025
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- NBC Sports
Quincy Wilson breaks U18 world record in 400m, takes momentum into USATF Outdoor Champs
American Quincy Wilson broke the U18 world record in the 400m for a fourth time, clocking 44.10 seconds to win at the Murphey Classic in Memphis, Tennessee, on Saturday. Last summer, Wilson won 4x400m relay gold at age 16 to become the youngest male Olympic track and field medalist in history. He turned 17 on Jan. 8. On Saturday, Wilson lowered his personal best by one tenth of a second. Race video is here. 'I went out there and shot out like a bullet,' he said. On the all-time world U18 list, he is now 74 hundredths faster than the second-fastest junior 400m sprinter in history, fellow American Justin Robinson. Wilson also ranks second on the all-time U20 400m list behind American Steve Lewis, who won the 1988 Olympic title in 43.87 seconds at age 19. For this year, Wilson is the joint-fourth-fastest man in the world across all ages and third among Americans behind Khaleb McRae (43.91) and Jacory Patterson (43.98). The top three men in the USA Track and Field Outdoor Championships 400m final on Aug. 2 are in line to make the team individually for the World Championships in Tokyo in September. Several more are expected to make the team for the 4x400m relay pool. The field at USATF Outdoors in Eugene, Oregon, could also include 2024 Olympic gold medalist Quincy Hall, 2025 World Indoor champion Chris Bailey and 2022 World outdoor champion Michael Norman. Wilson, already the youngest American male Olympic track and field athlete in history, can become the youngest American man to compete at a World Outdoor Track and Field Championships, according to Bill Mallon of the OlyMADMen. Nick Zaccardi,
NBC Sports
06-06-2025
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- NBC Sports
Ariarne Titmus: 'I know that the LA Olympics will be my last'
Australian swimmer Ariarne Titmus, who is taking this season off from competing, does plan to return for a 2028 Olympic bid while repeating that she's at 'the tail end' of her career. 'I know that the LA Olympics will be my last,' Titmus, 24, said on a Two Am I podcast episode published Friday. 'So I just don't want to be an athlete that retires from their sport and is lost and has nothing to do, and I think that it was so important for me to channel different areas of my life to know that when I do leave the sport behind, I'm going to be all right.' Titmus won Olympic 200m and 400m freestyle titles at Tokyo 2020, then earned gold in the 400m free and the 4x200m free relay at the Paris Games. She has been American Katie Ledecky's primary rival for several years. Australia hosts the 2032 Brisbane Games, when Titmus will be 31. No Australian female swimmer over the age of 30 has ever competed at the Olympics, according to the OlyMADMen. After the 2023 World Championships, Titmus told her coach, Dean Boxall, that she would be 'running on fumes' by the end of 2024. 'I just know for myself, mentally more than anything, I just need to give myself a break, and a long break,' she said on the podcast, adding that she had swum 3,000 meters total since last summer. 'I need to give myself almost like an unlimited timeline to allow the hunger and motivation to build back up. I mean, I've been training the volume that I have been since I was 13, and up until I was 21, I'd had no more than two weeks at a time off. 'So, after Tokyo, I had two months (off). I enjoyed myself, but it didn't quite feel long enough. So I thought, if I want to make it through the next cycle, I'm going to have to give myself some time to just enjoy life a little bit.' Last November, fellow Australian swim star Kaylee McKeown was quoted saying that she plans to make LA 2028 her final Olympics, too. McKeown would be bypassing a chance to bid for the 2032 Games that will be held 19 miles north of her birthplace. 'I already know within myself I want to go because it will be my last Olympics, and I want to enjoy the sport, I love the sport, and I don't want to do it for anyone else or any other purpose but myself,' McKeown said then, according to News Corp Australia. McKeown, 23, swept the 100m and 200m backstrokes in Tokyo and Paris and has continued to compete since then. McKeown's total Olympic gold medals (five, including in the Tokyo women's 4x100m medley relay) and total Olympic medals (nine) have been bettered by only one athlete in Australian history across all sports: swimming teammate Emma McKeon, who announced her retirement last November. In 2028, both Titmus and McKeown can win individual gold at a third Olympics, a feat accomplished by one previous Australian in any sport: swimmer Dawn Fraser, won took the 100m free in 1956, 1960 and 1964. Nick Zaccardi,
NBC Sports
15-05-2025
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- NBC Sports
ElliReese Niday wins U.S. diving national title at age 13
ElliReese Niday, 13, became one of the youngest divers in history to earn a senior U.S. title, winning the women's platform event at the national championships in Auburn, Alabama. Niday totaled 721.40 points over 10 combined dives from Wednesday's semifinal and Thursday's final, prevailing by 10 points over Bayleigh Cranford. In most cases, the top two divers per individual event at nationals and winning synchronized teams qualify for this summer's World Championships. But Niday is too young for the World Championships because she doesn't turn 14 before the end of 2025. Niday, from Moultrie, Georgia, is the daughter of Lauryn McCalley, who won national titles on the springboard in 2000 and 2001. USA Diving doesn't have a complete list of all-time national champions by age, but did find another 13-year-old who captured a senior title — Marjorie Gestring in 1936, the same year she won Olympic springboard gold. Gestring remains the youngest person on record to win a Summer Olympic gold medal, according to the OlyMADMen group of Olympic historians. In December 2016, Hailey Hernandez won the 3m springboard at USA Diving's Winter Nationals at age 13. Neither Delaney Schnell nor Daryn Wright, the U.S. Olympians in Paris in women's platform, competed in the event at nationals this week. Also at nationals, Max Flory won the men's 3m springboard with 922 points, prevailing by 27.3 points over Collier Dyer. Carson Tyler, whose fourth-place finish at the Olympics was the best by an individual U.S. diver, placed fourth at nationals after hitting his feet on the board on his fifth of six final dives, a commentator said. Earlier this week, Tyler won the synchronized platform event with Josh Hedberg. Nationals finish Friday with women's springboard and men's platform finals. The World Championships are in Singapore in July and August. USA Diving 2025 National Championships Results Men's Platform: Friday *Men's 1m Springboard: 1. Lyle Yost. 2. Nicholas Harris Men's 3m Springboard: 1. Max Flory, 2. Collier Dyer Men's Synchro Platform: 1. Carson Tyler/Josh Hedberg Men's Synchro Springboard: 1. Jack Ryan/Grayson Campbell Women's Platform: 1. ElliReese Niday**, 2. Bayleigh Cranford, 3. Ella Roselli *Women's 1m Springboard: 1. Anna Kwong 2. Hailey Hernandez Women's 3m Springboard: Friday Women's Synchro Platform: 1. Daryn Wright/Bayleigh Cranford Women's Synchro Springboard: 1. Anna Kwong/Sophie Verzyl *Mixed Synchro Platform: 1. Bayleigh Cranford/Tyler Wills *Mixed Synchro Springboard: 1. Luke Hernandez/Kyndal Knight *Not an Olympic event, but is held at World Championships **Too young for World Championships Nick Zaccardi,
