Summer Olympic Games Los Angeles 2028 Qualification Calendar Road to LA 2028

[clemsonbeav 239]

This question isn't directly related to qualifying for LA28, but is mostly to help me wrap my mind around each sport federation's calendar.

 

I think all Winter Sports straddle two different years (i.e. seasons start in 2025 and finish in 2026).  Most Summer Sports have their annual season in one calendar year (like Sport Climbing has its annual World Cup that starts around April and finishes around October of each year).  But some sports are different.  Squash has its start of each season in around August and it finishes the next calendar year.

 

Are there other Summer sports like Squash that have their season with a similar calendar, straddling two different years?

 

Sports that I'm already aware of that do this

Squash

Softball

Rugby Sevens

Fencing

 

Others?

Edited December 3, 2025 by clemsonbeav

[dcmdtruefan 41]

5 hours ago, clemsonbeav said:

This question isn't directly related to qualifying for LA28, but is mostly to help me wrap my mind around each sport federation's calendar.

 

I think all Winter Sports straddle two different years (i.e. seasons start in 2025 and finish in 2026).  Most Summer Sports have their annual season in one calendar year (like Sport Climbing has its annual World Cup that starts around April and finishes around October of each year).  But some sports are different.  Squash has its start of each season in around August and it finishes the next calendar year.

 

Are there other Summer sports like Squash that have their season with a similar calendar, straddling two different years?

 

Squash

Softball

Rugby Sevens

Fencing

 

Others?

Based on the list of sports that you mentioned, fencing and rugby sevens appears to have a calendar years that straddles between two different years.

 

For fencing, if you got to the results and competition portion of the FIE website, on the right hand side where it says seasons, it would show seasons in two straddling years: https://fie.org/competitions

 

For rugby sevens, at least for the world sevens series, a season of the competition is competed in two straddling years:  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SVNS

 

Besides those examples that you mentioned, most of the summer Olympic sports is competed in seasons of one year instead of two different years. 

 

I think the reason for that is summer sports have a longer duration of activity in comparison to winter sports due to climate related reasons. For summer sports, those competitions can be pratically held in any climate environment, lending itself for competitions to be able to be held for the majority of one calendar year.

 

Meanwhile, winter sports are usually able to be held in only winter climates with the exception of some of the indoor sports. Hence, competition are usually from late fall/early winter towards the end of the winter season. Thus, the need of a season that straddles through two different years. 

[clemsonbeav 239]

5 hours ago, dcmdtruefan said:

Based on the list of sports that you mentioned, fencing and rugby sevens appears to have a calendar years that straddles between two different years.

 

For fencing, if you got to the results and competition portion of the FIE website, on the right hand side where it says seasons, it would show seasons in two straddling years: https://fie.org/competitions

 

For rugby sevens, at least for the world sevens series, a season of the competition is competed in two straddling years:  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SVNS

 

Besides those examples that you mentioned, most of the summer Olympic sports is competed in seasons of one year instead of two different years. 

 

I think the reason for that is summer sports have a longer duration of activity in comparison to winter sports due to climate related reasons. For summer sports, those competitions can be pratically held in any climate environment, lending itself for competitions to be able to be held for the majority of one calendar year.

 

Meanwhile, winter sports are usually able to be held in only winter climates with the exception of some of the indoor sports. Hence, competition are usually from late fall/early winter towards the end of the winter season. Thus, the need of a season that straddles through two different years. 

Thank you.  Yes, sorry, my original list could have been clearer (fixing it now).  That list was a list of sports I already knew had a season that straddled two years.  I was wondering if there were others that I hadn't listed.

[Rafa Maciel 1,661]

3 hours ago, clemsonbeav said:

Thank you.  Yes, sorry, my original list could have been clearer (fixing it now).  That list was a list of sports I already knew had a season that straddled two years.  I was wondering if there were others that I hadn't listed.

I think some of the FEI World Cups straddle 2 years. The 2025/26 Show Jumping World Cup final will be taking place in April next year in Fort Worth 

[phelps 8,369]

18 hours ago, clemsonbeav said:

This question isn't directly related to qualifying for LA28, but is mostly to help me wrap my mind around each sport federation's calendar.

 

I think all Winter Sports straddle two different years (i.e. seasons start in 2025 and finish in 2026).  Most Summer Sports have their annual season in one calendar year (like Sport Climbing has its annual World Cup that starts around April and finishes around October of each year).  But some sports are different.  Squash has its start of each season in around August and it finishes the next calendar year.

 

Are there other Summer sports like Squash that have their season with a similar calendar, straddling two different years?

 

Sports that I'm already aware of that do this

Squash

Softball

Rugby Sevens

Fencing

 

Others?

almost all team sports have their season running across 2 years

[clemsonbeav 239]

8 hours ago, Rafa Maciel said:

I think some of the FEI World Cups straddle 2 years. The 2025/26 Show Jumping World Cup final will be taking place in April next year in Fort Worth 

Yes, thank you for the equestrian nod.  Looks like dressage likewise runs autumn-spring.  (But eventing runs spring-autumn.)

[Sindo 1,681]

 

 

It looks like the winning teams of this event will qualify for LA. I have added this event in our Qualification Calendars.

[clemsonbeav 239]

5 hours ago, Sindo said:

 

 

It looks like the winning teams of this event will qualify for LA. I have added this event in our Qualification Calendars.

And here we have another example of a league going autumn to spring.  

[clemsonbeav 239]

Here's something I've been working on the past few days.  A one-stop-shop database for international events, as well as continental and national events pertinent to the USA.

 

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/12JKUCf5rHHGSfmdMYvEgzKA04n2aF76jPDWUY849B9I/edit?usp=sharing

 

Features:

Tab 1 - Calendar

 

All columns filter-able to find anything specifically.

 

Column A. Start Date

Column B: End Date

Column C: Sport

Column D: Discipline Code (using the list on the Sports tab) - Use this to find when a specific event will be contested

Column E: Contest Title

Columns F-R: For events that have passed, you should be able to click a + box on the left to expand and see results for that event.  You have which place, name, and IOC code.

Also Column Q will link to highlights/replays of the event, usually on YouTube.

Column S: City

Column T: Country

Column U: I = International event, C = Continental event, N = National event

 

Tab 2 - Links

Links to official sites, FB, Insta, and YouTube for each of the federations, as well as dates of championships for easy viewing

 

Tab 3 - Sports

List of all medal events in LA28, given a code for ease of filtering/searching

 

 

It's not finished...I've done 18 sports out of 40something.  Will be working on it the next few weeks.  I tried to focus on those sports that are contested now.

 

If you want to take it and add your own continental/national events, that's fine.  I have a couple of other tricks/tips if you want to build your own.

 

Also, for events like Squash, Badminton, Tennis, and Equestrian, where there are a lot of international events, I tended to only take the top few tiers (like WTA 1000, 750, and 500, but nothing less for tennis).

Edited January 4 by clemsonbeav

[clemsonbeav 239]

I pretty much have finished now.  I'll still be tweaking some organization (probably will make a Results tab so that current events are at the top of the Schedule tab), and I probably will be adding and potentially deleting some events (struggling with which Equestrian events to include when my focus is to keep tabs on top athletes especially USA ones, and I was relying on ChatGPT to narrow down which Road Cycling events to include...also probably need to add more Sailing events).

 

Feel free to give any feedback or suggest any edits.  The only continental things I have on there are for the Americas, since I want to maintain the focus somewhat on worldwide and/or US/(Pan-)American events.  I might add other continental events on there if they're Olympic qualifiers.