The International Olympic Committee’s Executive Committee Wednesday approved the 2028 of 351 events and quotas for athletes at the Los Angeles games, an increase of 22 from the 329 events in Paris, among them, the mixed table tennis team will take the stage of the Los Angeles Olympics as a new event.
An additional 698 seats will be allocated for baseballsoftball, cricket, flag football, tennis and squash, on top of the quota of 10,500 core athletes.
The International Olympic Committee said the 2028’s plans for the Los Angeles games fulfilled the promise of“Innovation and gender equality”. Of the 10,500 core athletes, 5,333 are women and 5,167 men. There will be 322 more women and 376 more men in the new sports category. Six mixed events have been added to the games. Of the 351 events, there are 161 women’s events, 165 men’s events and 25 mixed events.
Events involving the addition of female athletes will be adjusted as follows: table tennis, archery, track and field (4x100m mixed relay) , golf, gymnastics, coastal rowing (beach sprint) will be added mixed team events; In soccer, for the first time in Olympic history, women’s teams (16) will outnumber men’s (12) ; boxing will add a new women’s weight class, ensure that the number of men’s and women’s sports categories and the number of players are the same; two new women’s water polo team seats will be added to the water polo competition to ensure that the number of men’s and women’s sports players and the number of participating teams are the same.
It is worth mentioning that the new cycle of Olympic table tennis from the original 5 gold medals to 6 gold medals, the new project for the mixed team. In addition, the men’s and women’s doubles events have replaced the previous men’s and women’s team events.
Other major changes include: swimming events will add men’s and women’s 50-meter backstroke, butterfly and breaststroke; For the first time on the Olympic stage, there will be women’s individual sculls (CW1X) , men’s individual sculls (CM1X) and mixed pair sculls (CX2X) in coastal rowing (the beach sprint) , bouldering and difficulty climbing will be competed as separate medal events, while three-a-side basketball will be expanded from 8 men’s and women’s teams to 12 Men’s and women’s teams.