President Trump reveals 2028 Olympics task force
White House Deputy Press Secretary Anna Kelly joins “Fox & Friends First” to discuss President Donald Trump’s announcement of a task force to organize logistics for the 2028 Summer Olympics in Los Angeles.
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THE Los Angeles 2028 Olympic Games will be the first in history to schedule the women’s 100 meter track final on the opening day of competition and push the men’s event to the second day.
The full LA28 schedule was released on Wednesday, with organizers announcing an unprecedented change to prioritize the women’s category.
“The women’s 100 meters will be one of the most watched events, and we wanted to start with a showcase of the fastest women in the world,” LA28 head of sports and Games organization Shana Ferguson told reporters.
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Lucia Moris of Team South Sudan is injured during the women’s 100m preliminary round on the seventh day of the Paris 2024 Olympic Games at the Stade de France on August 2, 2024, in Paris, France. (Hannah Peters/Getty Images)
The opening day, July 15, will feature all three events in the women’s 100 meters. Typically, female track athletes compete in a maximum of two events per day at the Olympics. The three events in one day will therefore also be uncharted territory for the category and its athletes.
The move to give female sprinters the primary spotlight comes at a time when the popularity of women’s sports is growing in the United States and there is a global focus on protecting the women’s category from biologically male trans athletes.
The International Olympic Committee (IOC) is reportedly close to adopting a new policy that would ban trans athletes from competing as women, according to multiple reports this week.
President Donald Trump suggested in August that there would be some form of genetic testing at the Los Angeles Olympics to ensure no men compete in the women’s events.
SEX TESTS REVEAL DOZENS OF ATHLETES WITH MALE ADVANTAGES HAVE CONCLUDED WOMEN’S WORLD ATHLETICS FINALS SINCE 2000
U.S. Olympic and Paralympic Committee (USOPC) Chief Medical Officer Dr. Jonathan Finnoff told reporters last month that the USOPC was exploring the possibility of making SRY genetic testing available to U.S. sports governing bodies ahead of the Los Angeles Olympics.
Other highlights of the LA 28 program
American football flag will make its Olympic debut in 2028, with the men’s and women’s competitions scheduled to begin July 15 at Exposition Park Stadium, where all flag football games will take place.
The men’s gold medal game will take place on Friday, July 21, while the women’s game will take place the following day, Saturday, July 22.
Baseball and softball will return to the Olympics after being absent at the Paris Games last summer.
All baseball games will take place at Dodgers Stadiumbeginning on Thursday July 13. The gold medal game will then take place on Wednesday July 19.
Softball games will be played at OKC Softball Park beginning Sunday, July 23, with the gold medal game taking place on Saturday, July 29.
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The Olympic rings at the headquarters of the International Olympic Committee (IOC). (LAURENT GILLIERON/POOL/AFP via Getty Images)
Basketball, which the United States has dominated for the past three decades, will begin two days before the women’s opening ceremony on Wednesday, July 12, and one day before the men’s opening ceremony on Thursday, July 13. The women’s gold medal match will then take place on Saturday July 29 and the men’s final will take place on Sunday July 30. basketball matches will take place at the Inglewood Dome.
In total, the 2028 Olympics schedule schedules seven competitions before the opening ceremony, which is historically unusual.
There will also be a “Super Saturday” on July 29 (day 15), which includes 26 finals in 23 sports.
