Three-time Olympic champion Adam Peaty has introduced his intention to compete on the 2028 Video games in Los Angeles following the addition of the 50-metre breaststroke to the swimming programme.
The Worldwide Olympic Committee (IOC) on Wednesday formally accredited the inclusion of six new occasions for LA28 – the boys’s and ladies’s 50m backstroke, breaststroke, and butterfly.
Peaty is a three-time world and four-time European champion in 50m breaststroke.
The 30-year-old posted on Instagram: “50m sprint events have just been added to @la28games which confirms my attempt to be at my fourth Olympic Games.
“That is the very best outcome for our unimaginable sport and can permit extra folks to be a part of it and keep in it for much longer. Thanks @world_aquatics for this wonderful resolution.
“I’ve got a good feeling about these next three years.”
Peaty gained the Olympic 100m breaststroke title on debut at Rio 2016 earlier than retaining it at Tokyo 2020, along with claiming 4x100m blended medley gold in Japan.
Amid bodily points, together with a optimistic Covid check, the 30-year-old needed to accept breaststroke silver in Paris final 12 months as Italian swimmer Nicolo Martinenghi took his crown.
Females set to outnumber males in Olympics landmark in 2028
Emma Hayes led the US Ladies’s Soccer Group to Olympic gold at Paris 2024
Los Angeles 2028 is about to characteristic extra feminine athletes than male in a landmark second for the Olympic Video games.
A complete of 10,500 athletes will compete throughout 31 sports activities within the preliminary programme – the identical as Paris 2024.
With gender equality a key consideration, the IOC introduced on Wednesday an accredited quota of 5,333 locations for ladies and 5,167 for males.
Throughout the 5 new sports activities proposed by the LA28 organising committee and supported by the IOC – baseball/softball, T20 cricket, flag soccer, lacrosse and squash – there might be an additional 322 locations for feminine athletes and 376 for male rivals.
For the primary time in Olympic historical past, all crew sports activities may have at the very least the identical variety of ladies’s groups as males’s groups.
Los Angeles 2028 Olympics marketing campaign. Image credit score: ENCA.
Two feminine groups have been added to the water polo programme, making it 12 for every gender, whereas a further ladies’s weight class ensures gender parity in boxing.
In the meantime, the ladies’s soccer competitors will improve from 12 to 16 groups, with the boys’s event lowering from 16 to 12.
Talking following a gathering of the governing physique’s government board in Lausanne, Switzerland, IOC sports activities director Package McConnell stated: “This programme really gives a powerful platform and promotion of female athletes for the first time in Olympic history.
“There might be extra quota locations accessible for qualification for ladies than for males, reaching full gender equality in boxing and water polo, so as to add to all the different sports activities we have achieved gender equality in Paris.”
The 2028 occasion is scheduled to happen from July 14-30.
