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LA28 Summer Olympics Opening Ceremony
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Dual-venue ceremony at LA Memorial Coliseum and SoFi Stadium. 4M+ tickets already sold.
The LA28 Summer Olympic Games open Friday, July 14, 2028 with a first-of-its-kind dual-venue opening ceremony shared between the Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum and SoFi Stadium in Inglewood. More than four million tickets across the full Games have already cleared initial sales phases. The Games will run through July 30, featuring 36 sports and the Olympic debuts of flag football, squash, and lacrosse sixes, alongside the return of cricket in a T20 format.
Los Angeles is hosting the Summer Olympics for the third time, following 1932 and 1984, after the International Olympic Committee made the unprecedented "double allocation" decision in September 2017 that simultaneously awarded the 2024 Games to Paris and the 2028 Games to LA. Casey Wasserman chairs the LA28 organizing committee, which operates on a privately financed $7.1 billion budget with no reliance on new public venue construction — every major competition site already exists. The LA Memorial Coliseum, a 1923 national historic landmark and host of the 1932 and 1984 Games, has a current seated capacity near 77,500 after renovations, while SoFi Stadium seats roughly 70,000 with expansion to 100,000 for Olympic-scale configurations. LA28 confirmed the split-ceremony format in 2024, pairing athlete parades with staged performances at each venue linked by synchronized broadcast production. Comcast/NBCUniversal holds US broadcast rights through 2032 under a $7.75 billion agreement. New to the 2028 program: flag football, squash, cricket (T20 format), lacrosse sixes, and baseball/softball; boxing returns under a reconstituted governance model. Athletes will compete across a distributed Southern California venue footprint stretching from Long Beach to the San Fernando Valley. Participating National Olympic Committees are expected to number 206 plus a Refugee Olympic Team, with athlete capacity projected at around 10,500 — consistent with the Paris 2024 figure under the IOC's gender-balanced quota system. Venue highlights include Dodger Stadium for baseball, Crypto.com Arena for gymnastics, and the Long Beach Convention Center for multiple indoor events.
Friday, July 14, 2028 sits within the IOC's preferred mid-July opening window and coincides with Bastille Day — a nod to the 2024 Paris handover. The dual-venue ceremony is a deliberate departure from single-stadium tradition and a calculated bet on spreading marquee-event footprint across the LA basin. The date anchors 17 days of competition and synchronizes with US network broadcast sweeps, driving advertising inventory that NBC has priced at premium levels.
The opening ceremony counts down to the LA28 Olympics Closing Ceremony 16 days later. Sales and demand context ties back to the earlier LA28 Olympics Ticket Drop 2 phase in 2026, and Olympic-year space programming aligns with the NASA Dragonfly Launch 2028 in early July.
When exactly is LA28 Olympics Opening Ceremony? Friday, July 14, 2028, at the LA Memorial Coliseum and SoFi Stadium.
Is LA28 Olympics Opening Ceremony confirmed or expected? Confirmed by the LA28 organizing committee and the International Olympic Committee.
Who is responsible for LA28 Olympics Opening Ceremony? The LA28 organizing committee, the United States Olympic and Paralympic Committee, and the IOC.
Where can I read the official announcement? The official LA28 portal publishes programming and ticket updates at https://la28.org/.
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