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 lads’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 dash occasions have simply been added to @la28games which confirms my try to be at my fourth Olympic Video games.
“That is the most effective outcome for our unimaginable sport and can permit extra individuals to be a part of it and keep in it for much longer. Thanks @world_aquatics for this wonderful determination.
“I’ve obtained feeling about these subsequent three years.”
Peaty received the Olympic 100m breaststroke title on debut at Rio 2016 earlier than retaining it at Tokyo 2020, along with claiming 4x100m combined medley gold in Japan.
Amid bodily points, together with a constructive Covid take a look at, the 30-year-old needed to accept breaststroke silver in Paris final yr as Italian swimmer Nicolo Martinenghi took his crown.
Females set to outnumber males in Olympics landmark in 2028
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Emma Hayes led the USA Girls’s Soccer Crew to Olympic gold at Paris 2024
Los Angeles 2028 is ready to function 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 shall 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 can have not less than the identical variety of ladies’s groups as males’s groups.
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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 an extra 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 lads’s match lowering from 16 to 12.
Talking following a gathering of the governing physique’s government board in Lausanne, Switzerland, IOC sports activities director Equipment McConnell mentioned: “This programme actually offers a strong platform and promotion of feminine athletes for the primary time in Olympic historical past.
“There shall 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 the entire different sports activities we have achieved gender equality in Paris.”
The 2028 occasion is scheduled to happen from July 14-30.
