In one other change introduced by the IOC, the ladies’s soccer occasion will develop to 16 groups for LA 2028, with the boys’s occasion decreasing from 16 to 12.
It will likely be the primary time the ladies’s occasion has had extra international locations competing than the boys’s.
An extra girls’s weight class in boxing was additionally confirmed, that means there will probably be gender parity within the occasion.
Water polo will see two extra girls’s groups in one other effort to deliver gender equality, by way of athlete quota and numbers of groups.
There may also be an expanded combined occasions schedule with archery, athletics (4x100m combined relay), golf, gymnastics, rowing coastal seashore dash and desk tennis all seeing combined workforce occasions added.
Rowing may have three occasions making their Olympic debut, with the ladies’s solo (CW1x) and males’s solo (CM1x) occasions and the combined double sculls (CX2x) being launched in a coastal seashore dash.
The boulder and lead occasions will probably be contested as separate medal occasions in sport climbing, whereas the 3×3 basketball occasions will enhance from eight groups to 12.
The IOC stated “gender equality was a key consideration” when deciding the schedule. Within the preliminary sports activities programme the variety of feminine athletes is 5,333 in comparison with 5,167 male athletes.
The extra sports activities add 322 feminine athletes and 376 male athletes.
Out of 351 occasions, there are 161 girls’s occasions, 165 males’s occasions and 25 combined occasions.
There are an additional 698 athlete locations allotted for the 5 sports activities proposed by the LA28 Organising Committee (baseball/softball, cricket, flag soccer, lacrosse and squash).
