Summer Olympic Games Los Angeles 2028 Sports Programme Road to LA 2028

[Dolby 754]

21 hours ago, Dragon said:

This is going a very tricky decision for the ICC.

You can't really use the current world rankings because ranking points will be won or lost against teams that are not eligible for the Olympics.

I think that any country who fails to qualify because will launch an appeal to the Court of Arbitration for Sport and probably win.

 

So here's what I suggest for the six.

 

1 Possible host country place - USA - but only possible - what you do is recalculate the ICC rankings and take out all points gained against non-Olympic teams.

Then once you done this and taken out non-Olympic countries like West Indies and either England and Scotland then if the USA are in a high enough ranking position they qualify. This position could be as high as 10th or as low as 20th depending on how important the IOC and ICC see their presence in LA.

(I'm assuming that, like in curling and women's soccer Great Britain would nominate either England or Scotland as their official qualifying representatives)

USA are currently 18th

 

2 2026 World T20 champions

 

3 and 4 Asia-Pacific qualifying tournament winners and runners-up

 

5 and 6 Euro-Africa-Americas qualifying tournament winners and runners-up

 

(7) If the USA don't meet the qualifying standard then a play off between the 3rd place teams in the 2 above categories decides the final qualifiers

 

The qualifying tournament would be held under IOC eligibility rules not the ICC rules

As someone, who thinks ICC rankings are useless, I would be happy if they are not a criteria for qualification but I think they will have atleast 1 quota via rankings to ensure that the top 3 (India, England and Australia) don't miss out. 

[Fogna23 0]

Will tennis really have a team event instead of MX or it is just a mistake in the official document? No mention to it in the press realese, nor anything said by ITF... that seems strange

[Gianlu33 5,276]

14 minutes ago, Fogna23 said:

Will tennis really have a team event instead of MX or it is just a mistake in the official document? No mention to it in the press realese, nor anything said by ITF... that seems strange

@Dragon says IOC claim that the ITF didn't has decided yet.

[hckošice 15,519]

10 hours ago, Triplecast said:

I'm late to the thread and maybe someone else said this, but the minute I saw this, my reaction was Great, a second relay for men to muff the baton exchange.

one of our beloved and awaited Olympic tradition

[OlympicIRL 5,659]

The IGF have announced the format for golf’s mixed team event at LA 2028.

• 36-hole event over 2 days
• Teams of 2 players (1 male/1 female)
• Maximum one team per nation and teams will be made up of players from individual events.
• Day 1: Foursomes (alternate shot)
• Day 2: Four-ball (best ball)
• Will take place after the men’s event and before the women’s event.

 

https://golfweek-eu.usatoday.com/story/sports/golf/2025/04/15/2028-olympics-mixed-team-golf-format-igf/83098365007/

[JoshMartini007 2,765]

Very glad they went with foursome/four-ball rather than just adding up individual scores.

[NearPup 3,494]

5 hours ago, OlympicIRL said:

The IGF have announced the format for golf’s mixed team event at LA 2028.

• 36-hole event over 2 days
• Teams of 2 players (1 male/1 female)
• Maximum one team per nation and teams will be made up of players from individual events.
• Day 1: Foursomes (alternate shot)
• Day 2: Four-ball (best ball)
• Will take place after the men’s event and before the women’s event.

 

https://golfweek-eu.usatoday.com/story/sports/golf/2025/04/15/2028-olympics-mixed-team-golf-format-igf/83098365007/

Would rather best ball be on day 1 and alternate shots be on day 2, but overall I think this is a good format.

[phelps 8,281]

just scores...no direct elimination rounds...meh! 

[NearPup 3,494]

9 hours ago, phelps said:

just scores...no direct elimination rounds...meh! 

Ya, a 16 team bracket of foursome (personally not a big fan of four ball :P ) would have been ideal. I generally do find matchplay a lot more watcheable than strokeplay.

 

I'm assuming there are schedueling issues with that, however.

Edited April 21 by NearPup

[phelps 8,281]

1 hour ago, NearPup said:

Ya, a 16 team bracket of foursome (personally not a big fan of four ball :P ) would have been ideal. I generally do find matchplay a lot more watcheable than strokeplay.

 

I'm assuming there are schedueling issues with that, however.

I also prefer foursomes rather than fourballs 

 

maybe they think of scheduling issues, but a 16-team draw means 4 rounds, which isn't impossible to be accomodated in 2, max 3 days* (and there are more than 3 days between the 2 individual tournaments)

 

*round of 16 in day 1, quarters in the morning of day 2, semis in the afternoon of day 2, finals in day 3 (and pushing the program to the limit, it's also possible to keep the event within 2 days only)