LA 2028 – Summer

Officially, the LA28 Summer Olympics run from July 14-30, 2028. That’s a Friday through Sunday.

However, the competition schedule is so packed that several sports will start ahead of the Opening Ceremony. Historically, a heavy sports schedule has required hosts to start competitions one to two days beforehand, but the LA28 Olympics are so big that they’re starting on Monday, July 10, 2028 (that’s Day -4).

Football (soccer) will be the only sport contested on Day -4 and Day -3. On Day -2 (July 12, 2028), six additional sports get underway.

Check out the Olympics daily competition schedule.

The official dates of the 2028 Summer Paralympics are from August 15-27, 2028. That’s a Tuesday through Sunday.

However, the Paralympic schedule is also so packed that competition will actually kick off on Sunday, August 13. 

Check out the Paralympics daily competition schedule.

UPDATE – JUNE 10, 2026: 

The second ticket drop will take place from August 10-20, with tickets available for all sports and at all price points.

If you’re registered, you’re eligible for this drop if:

• you weren’t selected for the first lottery
• didn’t register in time
• didn’t reach the ticket maximums (see below for ticket maximums)

Registration for ticket drop #2 be open through July 22 at tickets.la28.org.

If you’re chosen for ticket drop #2, you will be notified August 6-7. If you’re in, you’ll get an email the day before and day of with access information.

Additionally, there will be a Visa presale ticket draw on July 29-31. Winners of this drawing will be notified on July 27.

Registration for this draw also closes on July 22. To enter: 

• If you’re already in the regular ticket lotteries draw, go back into your LA28 tickets account, check the Visa presale box and save changes
• New registrants – check the Visa box when you sign up.
• You may not register multiple accounts – only one registration per person

If you get selected for the Visa presale, you’ll be out of the running for ticket drop #2. If you don’t get selected, it’s not a big deal because ticket drop #2 is still a possibility. 

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Tickets for the LA 2028 Olympics and Paralympics are sold through a lottery system.

To get in on a lottery, you need to create an account on the LA28 website. This will automatically register you for all upcoming ticket lotteries.

If you win the lottery and are selected to participate in an upcoming ticket drop, you’ll be assigned a time at which you can buy tickets. During your timeslot you can buy up to 12 tickets on your account. You don’t have to buy all 12 at once, but that’s the max you can get on one account. Keep in mind that specific sports may have different ticket limits.

Currently, account holders may buy only 4 tickets for each Ceremony, and those count toward the 12 ticket limit per account. However, if you’re buying tickets for the football tournament, you may get up to 12 additional tickets.

Plan your ticket purchases in advance so that you can maximize your time when you have a timeslot:

Olympics schedule by session (each session by day for every sport)

Olympics schedule by event (sorted by sport)

Tickets are priced by seating category. They start at $28 and go up from there. While the prospect of getting $28 tickets for the Olympics may be exciting, they will be hard to come by.

LA28 CEO Reynold Hoover said that there are a total of 1 million $28 tickets across both the Olympics and Paralympics. There will likely be $28 tickets in many ticket drops, but they may be hard to come by. They’ll be available for every sport, but not every session. Our advice: Don’t expect to find them for popular finals like basketball or artistic gymnastics. Look for early round play, especially for smaller team sports. You might find them there.

Only 1 million $28 tickets will up for grabs because ticket sales contribute to paying for the cost of the Games. The Los Angeles Times reported that ticket sales are supposed to account for $2.5 billion of the Games’ $7.1 billion budget.

Another thing to keep in mind when you’re buying tickets is that there’s a 24% service fee attached to each ticket. LA28 says the “service fees align with standard industry practices for ticketing live events in the U.S.” The fee is supposed to cover the costs involved with ticketing.

If you don’t get in on the ticket lottery process, there are two other ways to get tickets for LA28. The first is purchasing hospitality packages. On Location is the official hospitality provider for LA 2028, and they have packages with guaranteed seats, as well as options for experiences, hotels, transportation, and more.

We talked with Paul Caine, CEO of On Location about its plans for LA 2028. Check out that conversation, and listen to what we thought of the On Location experience and Club 26 at Milano Cortina 2026.

The other way to get tickets for LA28 will be through its resale platforms. AXS and Eventim will provide the official secondary ticket platform. Sports Illustrated Tickets and Ticketmaster will also be verified ticket resellers.

The resale program doesn’t open until some time in 2027, so if you look for tickets on resale platforms before them, LA28 can’t guarantee that those tickets are valid. The safest bet will be to wait for the resale platform to open.

The wait can be tough, but as our friend and Olympics travel expert Ken Hanscom says, planning an Olympic experience is a marathon, not a sprint.

Looking for tickets for the Paralympics? They’ll go on sale in 2027. On Location also plans to offer hospitality packages for Paralympics fans.

Plan your Paralympics ticket purchases:

Paralympics schedule by session (each session by day for every sport)

Paralympics schedule by event (sorted by sport)

YES!

The Paralympics are so much fun–in some cases, the atmosphere at the Paralympics is better than the Olympics (take it from us)!

While all para sports are fun to watch, it’s really cool to see sports that are only on the Paralympic program, like wheelchair rugby (Alison’s favorite), blind football, goalball (two of Jill’s favorites), and bocce. Wheelchair basketball is cool–oh, and don’t miss sitting volleyball and wheelchair tennis! Are you picking up what we’re throwing down?

Volunteers are the lifeblood to running a successful Olympics and Paralympics. They provide much-needed help to Games Organizers, and they can make everyone’s experience with the Games fabulous.

LA28 will need about 60,000 volunteers during the Games.

Applicants must:

• Be at least 18 years old when they apply
• Be proficient at reading and writing English
• Commit to volunteer a minimum of 80 hours

Other skills may help–and some volunteer roles require them. Having previous volunteer experience, knowing other languages, understanding Olympic/Paralympic sports, having medical or technical skills can bolster your application.

Don’t have additional skills? That’s not a deal breaker! You don’t need to have prior experience–and many volunteers are first-time Games volunteers. Organizers are looking for a variety of people with different skills and a can-do attitude. 

The Olympic volunteer period runs from Mar-Aug 2028.

The Paralympic volunteer period runs from Aug-Sept 2028.

Volunteers have to commit to a minimum of 10 non-consecutive shifts within one period. A shift will be 8 hours long.

Volunteers typically work in the following categories:

• Ceremonies
• Communications
• Transportation
• Experience
• Medical
• Operations
• Sports
• Technology

We’ve typically seen volunteers do things like:

Timing!

Set up essential equipment!

Be medal people!

Lead the way!

• Wayfinding – there’s a lot of pointing spectators to and from venues
• Supporting the Games transportation system – helping media people like us get on the right bus
• Being one of the people who holds medals/flowers in a medal ceremony
• Help with venue setup – vacuuming, setting up/tearing down sport equipment
• Staffing venue media centers and press tribunes
• Helping fans have a great time!
• And more! Listen to our daily Games episodes for our “Officiating/Volunteer Job We’d Want to Do” segment!

Volunteers can let LA28 know their preferences on what categories they’d like to do, but nothing’s guaranteed. 

Volunteers should also expect to pay their own way to the Games, as well as lodging. They do get a pretty spectacular uniform and amazing memories.

Most volunteers for LA28 will be assigned to roles in the LA area, but Organizers also need volunteers for cities where some events (softball, canoe slalom, football) will be staged:

• Oklahoma City
• New York City
• Columbus, OH
• Nashville, TN
• St. Louis, MO
• San Jose, CA
• San Diego, CA 

The LA28 Volunteer page will have the application starting July 14.

LA 2028 will have 36 sports on the Olympic program. These break down into 51 disciplines with 351 medal events

• Aquatics
  • Artistic Swimming
  • Diving
  • Swimming
  • Water Polo
• Archery
• Athletics
• Badminton
• Baseball and Softball
• Basketball
  • 3×3
  • 5-on-5
• Canoe
  • Slalom
  • Sprint
• Cricket
• Cycling
  • BMX Racing
  • BMX Freestyle
  • Mountain Bike
  • Road
  • Track
• Equestrian
  • Dressage
  • Eventing
  • Jumping
• Fencing
• Flag football
• Football (soccer)
• Golf
• Gymnastics
  • Artistic Gymnastics
  • Rhythmic Gymnastics
  • Trampoline
• Handball
• Hockey
• Judo
• Lacrosse
• Modern pentathlon
• Rowing
• Rugby
• Sailing
• Shooting
• Skateboarding
• Softball
• Sport climbing
• Squash
• Surfing
• Table tennis
• Taekwondo
• Tennis
• Triathlon
• Volleyball
  • Beach Volleyball
  • Indoor Volleyball
• Weightlifting
• Wrestling
  • Freestyle
  • Greco-Roman

The Paralympics program includes: boccia, blind football, goalball, para archery, para athletics, para badminton, para canoe, para cycling, para equestrian, para judo, para powerlifting, para rowing, para swimming, para table tennis, shooting para sport, para taekwondo, sitting volleyball, wheelchair basketball, wheelchair fencing, wheelchair tennis, wheelchair rugby

For the LA 2028 Olympics, the host city was allowed to select some sports to add to the program. LA narrowed the list down to nine sports:

• Cricket
• Breakin’ (a Paris 2024 selection)
• Baseball/softball (Baseball and softball have been in the Games off and on. Their most recent appearance was at Tokyo 2020)
• Flag Football
• Karate (a Tokyo 2020 selection)
• Lacrosse
• Motorsport
• Kickboxing
• Squash

On October 16 2023, the International Olympic Committee approved five new sports:

• Baseball/Softball
• Cricket: The T20 event
• Flag Football
• Lacrosse: Sixes
• Squash

One other major change to the event program is that Rowing will remove the lightweight events and replace them with coastal rowing.

For the Paralympics, the following new para sports applied to be on the program:

• Para Arm wrestling
• Para climbing
• CP football
• Para Golf
• Para Karate
• Para dance sport
• Powerchair football
• Para Sailing (last on the Paralympic program at Rio 2016)
• Para Surfing
• Wheelchair handball
• Beach ParaVolley

LA 2028 organizers selected just one new sport: Para  Climbing.

LA28 will require no construction of permanent venues, which is pretty impressive, given that they’ve added five sports onto the program. Like Paris, LA will be able to draw on some famous sites around LA, Southern California, and even Oklahoma for its venues. We’ll even see the biggest swimming venue in Olympic and Paralympic history!

What we won’t see: Beach volleyball at its origin site. In April 2025, the City of Santa Monica and LA 2028 organizers couldn’t come to an agreement to host this event on the city’s beaches. From their perspective, Santa Monica said it would make more money from tourism than from hosting the event.

The “Olympic footprint,” as organizers call it, extends north to the Sepulveda Basin Recreation Area

As of April 15, 2025, here’s the breakdown for the Olympics by location (breakdown by sport follows):

CALIFORNIA

City of Los Angeles – 2028 Host City 

• 3×3 Basketball in the Sepulveda Basin Recreation Area

• Athletics at the LA Memorial Coliseum
• Baseball in Dodger Stadium in Downtown Los Angeles

• Boxing in the Peacock Theater in Downtown Los Angeles (preliminaries), Arena in Downtown Los Angeles (finals)

• Cycling Road in Venice Beach (starting point)

• Diving at the 1932 Pool in Exposition Park
• Fencing at the Los Angeles Convention Center
• Flag Football at the Stadium in Exposition Park
• Golf at the Riviera Country Club
• Judo at the Los Angeles Convention Center
• Lacrosse at the Stadium in Exposition Park
• Marathon in Venice Beach (starting point)

• Modern Pentathlon in the Sepulveda Basin Recreation Area

• Rhythmic Gymnastics in the USC Sports Center

• Squash at the Universal Studios Lot
• Table Tennis at the Los Angeles Convention Center
• Taekwondo at the Los Angeles Convention Center

• Triathlon in Venice Beach
• Weightlifting at Peacock Theater
• Wrestling at the Los Angeles Convention Center

City of Anaheim 

• Volleyball in the Arena in Anaheim

City of Arcadia 

• Equestrian at Santa Anita Park in Arcadia

City of Carson – 2028 Venue City 

• Archery at the Stadium in Carson
• Cycling – Track at the Velodrome
• Hockey at the Fields
• Rugby Sevens at the Stadium
• Tennis at the Tennis Center

City Long Beach – 2028 Venue City 

• Artistic Swimming at the Convention Center Lot
• Beach Volleyball at Alamitos Beach

• Canoe Sprint at Marine Stadium
• Handball at the Arena
• Marathon Swimming at Alimitos Beach
• Rowing (Coastal) at the Waterfront
• Rowing at Marine Stadium
• Sailing at Belmont Shore

• Shooting (Target) in the Convention Center

• Sport Climbing at the Convention Center Lot
• Water Polo at the Convention Center Lot

City of Inglewood

• Basketball at the Arena
• Swimming at the Stadium (aka SoFi Stadium)

City of Pasadena

• Football at the Rose Bowl Stadium

City of Pomona  

• Cricket (T20) at the Fairgrounds in Pomona

City of San Clemente  

• Surfing at Trestles Beach

City of South El Monte 

• Shotgun Shooting at the Shotgun Center in South El Monte

OKLAHOMA

Oklahoma City

• Canoe Slalom at the Whitewater Center
• Softball at the Softball Park

Here’s the breakdown by sport:

• 3×3: LA – Sepulveda Basin Recreation Area
• Archery: Carson (Stadium)
• Artistic Gymnastics: LA – Arena
• Artistic Swimming: Long Beach – Convention Center Lot
• Athletics: LA – LA Memorial Coliseum (Marathon start at Venice Beach)
• Badminton: USC Sports Center
• Baseball: LA – Dodger Stadium
• Basketball: Inglewood – Arena
• Beach Volleyball: Long Beach – Alamitos Beach
• Boxing: LA – Peacock Theater (prelims), Arena (finals)
• Canoe Slalom: Oklahoma City, OK – Whitewater Center
• Canoe Sprint: Long Beach – Marine Stadium
• Cricket: Pomona – Fairgrounds (temporary venue)
• Cycling – BMX Freestyle: LA – Sepulveda Basin Recreation Area
• Cycling – BMX Racing: LA – Sepulveda Basin Recreation Area
• Cycling – Road: LA – Venice Beach (starting line)
• Cycling – Track: Carson – Velodrome
• Diving: LA – 1932 Pool in Exposition Park
• Equestrian: Arcadia – Santa Anita Park
• Fencing: LA – Los Angeles Convention Center
• Flag Football: LA – Stadium in Exposition Park
• Football: Pasadena – Rose Bowl Stadium
• Golf: LA – Riviera Country Club
• Handball: Long Beach – Arena
• Hockey: Carson – Fields
• Judo: LA – Los Angeles Convention Center
• Lacrosse: LA – Stadium in Exposition Park
• Marathon Swimming: Long Beach -Alimitos Beach
• Modern Pentathlon: LA – Sepulveda Basin Recreation Area
• Rhythmic Gymnastics: LA – USC Sports Center
• Rowing: Long Beach [Coastal is at the Waterfront, the rest is at Marine Stadium]
• Rugby: Carson – Stadium
• Sailing: Long Beach – Belmont Shore
• Shooting: Long Beach (Target – at the Convention Center), South El Monte (Shotgun – at the Shotgun Center)
• Skateboarding: LA – Sepulveda Basin Recreation Area
• Softball: Oklahoma City, OK – Softball Park
• Sport Climbing: Long Beach – Convention Center Lot
• Squash: LA – Universal Studios Lot
• Surfing: Trestles Beach – San Clemente
• Swimming: Inglewood – Stadium (aka SoFi Stadium)
• Table Tennis: LA – Los Angeles Convention Center
• Taekwondo: LA – Los Angeles Convention Center
• Tennis: Carson – Tennis Center
• Trampoline: LA  – Arena
• Triathlon: LA – Venice Beach
• Volleyball: Anaheim – Arena
• Water Polo: Long Beach – Convention Center Lot
• Weightlifting: LA – Peacock Theater
• Wrestling: LA – Los Angeles Convention Center

We’ll produce daily episodes during the Games. We’ll record at the end of the competition day and drop them as soon as possible after recording. All episodes will include results for every event on that day’s schedule, along with our popular feature “What officiating or volunteer job do we want to do?” and other talk that will be special to the 2028 Games.

Various broadcast companies around the world have acquired media rights for French Alps 2030. 

Africa

The following countries will be covered by Marketing & Media Solutions: Angola, Benin, Botswana, Burkina Faso, Burundi, Cabo Verde, Cameroon, Central African Republic, Chad, Comoros, Congo, Côte d’Ivoire, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Djibouti, Equatorial Guinea, Eritrea, Eswatini, Ethiopia, Gabon, Gambia, Ghana, Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Kenya, Lesotho, Liberia, Madagascar, Malawi, Mali, Mauritius, Mozambique, Namibia, Niger, Nigeria, Rwanda, São Tomé and Príncipe, Senegal, Seychelles, Sierra Leone, Togo, Uganda, United Republic of Tanzania, Zambia and Zimbabwe

North America

Canada: Canadian Broadcast Company

United States: NBC/Peacock