President Trump Unveils 2028 Olympics Task Force
White House Deputy Press Secretary Anna Kelly joins ‘Fox & Friends First’ to discuss President Donald Trump announcing a task force to organize logistics for the 2028 Summer Olympics in Los Angeles.
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The Olympics in Los Angeles 2028 will be the first in history to schedule the women’s 100-meter track final on the opening day of competition, pushing the men’s event to the second day.
The full LA28 program was released on Wednesday, with organizers announcing the 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 sport and game delivery Shana Ferguson told reporters.
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Lucia Moris of Team South Sudan lies injured during the women’s 100m preliminary round on day seven 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 on July 15 features all three rounds of the women’s 100 meters. Typically, women’s track athletes run a maximum of two events per day in the Olympics. So the three events in one day will also be uncharted territory for the category and its athletes.
The change to give female sprinters the early window spotlight comes at a time of growth in popularity for women’s sports in the United States and global focus on protecting the women’s category from biologically male trans athletes.
The International Olympic Committee (IOC) is reportedly on the verge of adopting a new policy that would ban trans athletes from competing as women, according to multiple reports this week.
Chairman Donald Trump suggested in August that there would be some form of genetic testing at the LA Olympics to ensure that no men compete in the women’s events.
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The United States Olympic and Paralympic Committee (USOPC) Chief Medical Officer Dr. Jonathan Finnoff told reporters last month that the USOPC is exploring options to make SRY gene testing available to US sports governing bodies ahead of the LA Olympics.
Other highlights of the LA 28 schedule
American flag football will make its Olympic debut in 2028, with men’s and women’s competitions scheduled to begin on July 15 at Exposition Park Stadium, where all flag football matches will be held.
The men’s gold medal match will take place on Friday 21 July, with the women’s gold medal to be played the following day on Saturday 22 July.
Baseball and softball are returning to the Olympics after being absent from the games in Paris last summer.
All baseball games take place at Dodgers Stadiumbeginning Thursday, July 13. The gold medal game will then take place on Wednesday, July 19.
The softball games will be played at OKC Softball Park beginning on Sunday, July 23rd, with the gold medal game taking place on Saturday, July 29th.
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The Olympic rings at the International Olympic Committee (IOC) headquarters. (LAURENT GILLIERON/POOL/AFP via Getty Images)
Basketball, which the United States has dominated for the past three decades, begins 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 be held on Saturday 29 July and the men’s final will be on Sunday 30 July. basketball game takes place at the Inglewood Dome.
Overall, the 2028 Olympic schedule sees seven competitions take place 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.
