LA 2028 Olympics: Adam Peaty targets fourth Games after 50m swimming events added

In another change announced by the IOC, the women’s football event will grow to 16 teams for LA 2028, with the men’s event staying at 12.

It will be the first time the women’s event has had more countries competing than the men’s.

An additional women’s weight category in boxing was also confirmed, meaning there will be gender parity in the event.

Water polo will see two additional women’s teams in another effort to bring gender equality, in terms of athlete quota and numbers of teams.

There will also be an expanded mixed events schedule with archery, athletics (4x100m mixed relay), golf, gymnastics, rowing coastal beach sprint and table tennis all seeing mixed team events added.

Rowing will have three events making their Olympic debut, with the women’s solo (CW1x) and men’s solo (CM1x) events and the mixed double sculls (CX2x) being introduced in a coastal beach sprint.

The boulder and lead events will be contested as separate medal events in sport climbing, while the 3×3 basketball events will increase from eight teams to 12.

The IOC said “gender equality was a key consideration” when deciding the schedule. In the initial sports programme the number of female athletes is 5,333 compared to 5,167 male athletes.

The additional sports add 322 female athletes and 376 male athletes.

Out of 351 events, there are 161 women’s events, 165 men’s events and 25 mixed events.

There are an extra 698 athlete places allocated for the five sports proposed by the LA28 Organising Committee (baseball/softball, cricket, flag football, lacrosse and squash).