The Road to LA '28 Road to LA 2028

[Olympicsnell 333]

at the world games in china i have noticed that GB qualified teams in the womens (no men's tournament at all) flag football and lacrosse, both events are 8 team tounaments so getting there is a very good start

 

the flag football tournament starts on the 14th of august

 

lacross starts on the 7th

 

the only other olympic level sport where ive seen GB are sending competitors is archery, 1 female compound, and 1 male and female in the recurve

 

does anyone know how to watch these events? think they will be on youtube? 

Edited August 4, 2025 by Olympicsnell

[chargundam 54]

19 hours ago, Olympicsnell said:

at the world games in china i have noticed that GB qualified teams in the womens (no men's tournament at all) flag football and lacrosse, both events are 8 team tounaments so getting there is a very good start

 

the flag football tournament starts on the 14th of august

 

lacross starts on the 7th

 

the only other olympic level sport where ive seen GB are sending competitors is archery, 1 female compound, and 1 male and female in the recurve

 

does anyone know how to watch these events? think they will be on youtube? 

There's a world games app you can watch the streams on. 

[Olympicsnell 333]

7 hours ago, chargundam said:

There's a world games app you can watch the streams on. 

thanks will check that out

[Grassmarket 4,305]

On 8/4/2025 at 7:55 PM, Olympicsnell said:

at the world games in china i have noticed that GB qualified teams in the womens (no men's tournament at all) flag football and lacrosse, both events are 8 team tounaments so getting there is a very good start

 

the flag football tournament starts on the 14th of august

 

lacross starts on the 7th

 

the only other olympic level sport where ive seen GB are sending competitors is archery, 1 female compound, and 1 male and female in the recurve

 

does anyone know how to watch these events? think they will be on youtube? 

Actually, looks like coverage will be pretty good.

 

The World Games 2025 Schedule, Live Sports Times & Streaming

 

This seems to be  first involvement, against the hosts tomorrow morning

 

Women's GBR vs. CHN - Pool A - Watch The World Games Live & On Demand, Free Streaming

Edited August 5, 2025 by Grassmarket

[Rafa Maciel 1,709]

For anyone who is interested, I've mapped out what I think could be likely qualification pathways across the LA28 sports - except for Boxing because not sure who will be managing the qualifying procedure, weightlifting because the weight classes aren't established yet, and wrestling because I really don't care about it. 

2028 Los Angeles Qualification Timeline.xlsx

[Olympicsnell 333]

8 hours ago, Rafa Maciel said:

For anyone who is interested, I've mapped out what I think could be likely qualification pathways across the LA28 sports - except for Boxing because not sure who will be managing the qualifying procedure, weightlifting because the weight classes aren't established yet, and wrestling because I really don't care about it. 

2028 Los Angeles Qualification Timeline.xlsx 84.03 kB · 3 downloads

Love this, thank you. gonna put more effort into trying to attend some qualification events over the next few years and something like that (because i cant be arsed hunting round the internet definitly helps) wasn't too bothered about women's cricket world cup next year until that announcement that's it's likely a qualifier now i'm all over england group stage games 

[Olympicsnell 333]

GB disappointingly eliminated in the group stage of the women's lacrosse tournament.  

They destroyed china in their first game, played really well against Canada but ultimately lost as Canada pulled away in the second half of that game, and then also lost to Japan after getting themselves into silly trouble with fouls. 

As a sport i actually quite like it, GB are the highest ranked team in Europe so i'm hoping this tournament has some placement games as would get to see where they are at against ireland and czechia

 

[Grassmarket 4,305]

1 hour ago, Olympicsnell said:

GB disappointingly eliminated in the group stage of the women's lacrosse tournament.  

They destroyed china in their first game, played really well against Canada but ultimately lost as Canada pulled away in the second half of that game, and then also lost to Japan after getting themselves into silly trouble with fouls. 

As a sport i actually quite like it, GB are the highest ranked team in Europe so i'm hoping this tournament has some placement games as would get to see where they are at against ireland and czechia

 

I had actually forgotten that lacrosse was always a popular girl's school sport here - like in Enid Blyton books etc.

[Rafa Maciel 1,709]

Indicative Olympic Qualifying Time for LA:

 

 

 

The OQT is based on the 14th place time from the heats in Paris with the OCT applying additional 0.5%. In most cases (green) the qualifying times should be slower than Paris albeit probably not by much but there are a couple of events on the women's side where the entry standards could be considerably slower. 

[mpjmcevoy 379]

On 8/9/2025 at 3:20 PM, Grassmarket said:

I had actually forgotten that lacrosse was always a popular girl's school sport here - like in Enid Blyton books etc.

5th place, highest ranked European Team for the women, seem well set  for continental place if Lacross goes that route, and pretty well set for plain ranking place in any event - with US as host, the top (next) four covering four continents is handy for IOC purposes - unlikely any African team will be close to competitive, so may very well end up with the sixth spot open to the other two Europeans who are also high up in the rankngs.